I'm not really great with the nuts and bolts; is the NBN going to give Canberra any extra control over accessibility?
The fact that all other fixed options are being disconnected by law, is incredibly unsettling.
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LOL the NBN? I remember when that boondoggle started up in 2000. Still the same shit. iiNet helped smack down the last attempt to do this nonsense. iiNet is the only good ISP in australia. Laws can't make money but they can destroy it. I hate the Aust govt. I never want to go back there and I don't even bother to replace my passport... I would love to disavow my Aust citizenship, though it is really just a middle finger and really wouldn't help me in any way.
Yes, they won't let you renounce your citizenship unless you're taking up elsewhere, due to some UN resolution against statelessness. (Which is meant to be a bad thing refugees are caught in, but sounds pretty fantastic to me)
I have also Dutch citizenship so I would not be stateless from this. But like you I like the idea of being stateless. There is an old UN resolution which is obscure and a bit complicated and not fully implemented despite most governments ratifying it, and they have to give you a document of identity and let you register to pay tax. The benefits of citizenship are very dubious but it is a lot of time and some money to get the right to settle.
I think there is a much bigger problem these UN bastids are doing nothing about. In fact the EU mandates address registration for almost everything, and at least here in the Netherlands, half the people are stuck on the street because of this nonsense. I had a really big problem when my passport expired, I was not allowed to work! A great job was into the stage of interview at the time and I couldn't follow it up.
I don't really want help from these bastards. I want them to stop getting in my way.
"""Helping"""
Yes it definately will. We already have a spy infrastructure in place to rival the NSA, with far less oversight and public awareness - I doubt things will be improved by centralizing all of the control to a single company.
This new system allows for "service providers" with no infrastructure of their own at all, basically just handling billing and customer support - things like network wiretaps happen at a level above this sort of ISP and they would have zero control or knowledge.
This is like choosing to start the Telstra monopoly all over again imo :(
Are we too sparsely populated for mesh wi fi?
I've read Havana has a great setup.
Most cities could do it but inland would struggle.. I used to run some nodes on brismesh back in the day, not sure what happened to that project..
I remember reading about Brismesh back in my uni days. Thought it was an interesting concept.