Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

[Birds]

Leigh go get an SSB lithium - will never go flat on you and you save 2-3kg of weight

[UNR33L]

I dont think my battery even weighs like a kilo it's tiny, may as well be one of those little 9v batteries

Edited August 24, 2015 by UNR33L

[UNR33L]

Phillip Island in a few weeks should be goooood I wonder what speed I'll get down the straight..

[Birds]

I dont think my battery even weighs like a kilo it's tiny, may as well be one of those little 9v batteries

You'd be surprised.

Thought my R1 battery was small but it was 4.5kg - saved nearly 4kg by using lithium. That's a lot of unsprung weight on a bike. People pay thousands for that kind of weight saving.

[Birds]

Phillip Island in a few weeks should be goooood I wonder what speed I'll get down the straight..

lol keep ya head down

Phillip island straight on a naked = gonna have a bad time

[UNR33L]

lol keep ya head down

Phillip island straight on a naked = gonna have a bad time

front end gonna wiggle wiggle

[Birds]

Does your bike have a steering damper?

One of many good things about the Jap superbikes of the last 10 years

[UNR33L]

nope, doesn't have one but it's more fun this way

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/nbn-set-to-announce-cost-blowout-20150823-gj5ze3.html

ooooooooooh

slower AND more expensive!

[Birds]

Sif the Labor version wasn't going to blow out to 100 billion by dezz's second pay rise and bring 3 million homes a node to premise fire.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Just own the failure Adam...

[Leroy Peterson]

Why does it have anything to with the government? NBN has been a clusterf**k for a few years now. Visionstream were a primary contractor and had sack a lot of staff to reduce overheads from NBN playing hardball. Like many government backed initiatives, the cheapest bidder is selected, the price blows out due to poor estimations and general incompetence.

Whoever is in government at the time has little affect on this process.

[Birds]

Who'd have thought government backed initiatives had anything to do with the government

[Leroy Peterson]

The article I mean. Essentially blaming the government for changing the scope of the NBN and then blaming them when the project was within budget during Labour reign and now blowing out during liberal reign.

[Birds]

I think it works both ways

It's not beyond governments to put in measures of control for budgeting, but there are also variables you can't account for. And if delegations and contractors were lined up during a previous reign of government that's a bit difficult to control.

Forecasting an enormous project with so many variables is also very hard. I don't mind it blowing out within good reason, but when it's clear that private contractors are rorting or being rorted, that's when I feel not enough measures have been put in place or enough control exercised by governments. The insulation scheme, for example, should have been much better regulated than cheques written and contractors left to their own devices.

[emts]

http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/nbn-set-to-announce-cost-blowout-20150823-gj5ze3.html

ooooooooooh

slower AND more expensive!

so want to stab some-one for that...all this money to guarentee slower internet than most of us get now.

[emts]

Why does it have anything to with the government? NBN has been a clusterf**k for a few years now. Visionstream were a primary contractor and had sack a lot of staff to reduce overheads from NBN playing hardball. Like many government backed initiatives, the cheapest bidder is selected, the price blows out due to poor estimations and general incompetence.

Whoever is in government at the time has little affect on this process.

how does it have anything to do with the gov..idiots decided to drop grom 100mbit to 25..

So spending a shit tonne of cash for the internet most of us already had/or faster.

they should have kept the original expandable system Labour had or cancelled it..which would be a better option as they cannot innovate like private business trying to clear a profit would.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

^this

It's a LOT of money to drop on effectively obsolete technology.

Even if the labor model was more expensive it was the better option. This LNP clusterf**k will cost another $50 bil in a few short years when the whole thing needs to be replaced

[Leroy Peterson]

im not fully educated on the topic, but I wouldnt be surprised if the government changed the scope of NBN when they found out things were getting way too pricey and out of control.

[Rekin]

What are you all crying about? The article clearly states that any additional funds will be raised from private investors & not government.

So relax, your precious tax income isnt being spent.

Also if you read the article instead of shouting that the sky is falling, it says:

"While 20 per cent of premises will get fibre connections, 38 per cent will get fibre to the node and 34 per cent will access the NBN using the hybrid fibre coaxial cables that supply Foxtel services."

HFC connections offer gigabit speeds & not the doomsday 25mbps.

f**k me, everyone has turned into a telecommunications engineer/capital coordinator.