atw: Re: National Broadband Network issue
- From: Bill Parker <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:09:27 +0800
Gee,
And I have been recommending ATW as a source of tech.writing info and
help to novices and newcomers today. I hope they do not join until
the fire has been "blacked out".
Bill
On 18/08/2010, at 6:53 PM, Rod Stuart wrote:
Wow, it seems that a penchant for Marx and Lenin must must be a pre-
requisite for technical writers.
As for Geoffrey, you need to read more carefully. I said that asset
transfer UNDER FORCE OR THREAT OF FORCE is theft. Is that the
condition under which you give your wife a birthday present?
It is amazing to me, that the thought of private education evokes
this mindset that only the well off could afford to educate their
children. In fact for every dollar that the government spends on
education (or anything else) it has to steal three, and waste 50
cents of it. If this were not the case we still could not afford
private schools?
As for Geoffrey's first University, it wasn't Oxford in 1215. Al-
Ahzar University in Cairo Egypt is generally considered to be the
oldest university in the world. It was founded roughly the same time
as the City of Cairo in 969 AD. The first lecture was delivered in
975 AD. The oldest in Europe was founded in 1088 in the northern
Italian city of Bologna, and none of them required funds acquired
through the theft that is income tax.
And by the by, taxation isn't the only means by which governments
thieve. They also do it through currency debasement, which blows
your savings away through inflation.
Terry says I should go live somewhere else. Perhaps he should try a
modern bastion of Marxist Leninist idealism, such as Cuba if paying
tax give him such a thrill.
On 18 August 2010 18:33, Terry Dowling <Terrence.Dowling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
Rod,
And of course, if the only people who can afford a privatised
education happen to be the children of our overpaid 'sporting
heroes', media personalities and the variously well-off, wouldn't
society be so much better?!
"Your parents can't pay for your education, so sit at home and find
ways to teach yourself" is really going to work for the masses,
isn't it? Especially if they have to pay to travel on all roads and
there's no such thing as a community library.
One of my favourite news stories about the US hospital system was of
a car crash victim who didn't have private insurance who was taken
by ambulance from hospital to hospital to hospital, where each
refused to accept him. In the end, the city council had to guarantee
payment before a hospital would treat him. Imagine if he had been a
wealthy, insured person out for a swim or jog without ID and who
became unconscious so unable to tell them of his insurance.
In my opinion, just because you get unlucky at birth through having
poor parents and/or genes that don't provide the ability to
succeed, shouldn't mean you're left to wallow and die. (maybe these
unfortunates could become commodities for the commercial researchers)
As Geoff says, paying taxes is not the same as being mugged because
in return we get roads, water, education, hospitals, police, parks,
beaches….
Cheers,
Terry
--
Rod Stuart
6 Brickhill Drive
Dilston, TAS 7252, Australia
<rod.stuart@xxxxxxxxx>
M((040) 184 6575 V(03) 6312 5399
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