Nothing
Nothing is nothing...
Nah... That's a cop out, can you imagine if I was like that though. Writing one sentence on this blog instead of hundreds where one would suffice. But I'm not, so here's a blog post about nothing.
Nothing, the word itself, is of no real significance, in fact you me even say nothing is less significant than nothing. But the absence of things, therefore nothing, may in itself have more meaning that some place where things are not absent. This can mean that:
Nothing > Things
And as Nothing has more characters in it and has an additional syllable it is quite obvious that:
Nothing > Things
However, it is quite obvious that having nothing may be far worse than having things. But it does then depend on which things you may or may not have. If you have a disease for example, this is worse than having nothing. But if you have nothing, disease wise, it may be said that you have your health. Therefore can nothing ever truly exist.
The existence of nothing can be proved by this blog post, although it is titled nothing the title in fact is not empty. The title has things in it so the word itself is not of any signifance.
Anyway I digress. In the event that you are attempting to describe a situation in which nothing truly exists you may use the word nothingness. However as nothingness contains nothing nothingness is not truly consistent with the meaning of nothing. That is that although something may be described as nothingness it is most likely that it is not in fact nothingness as nothingness contains nothing.
Therefore nothing is impossible. That is not that everything is possible, more that having nothing itself is impossible.
Though I may say my pockets contain nothing, therefore I am broke, this is true in the respect that my pockets do not contain any currency but it is not possible for the pockets to contain nothing. This is because although they do not contain currency they do in fact contain air and possibly snack food wrappers. However I will state that my pockets, or possibly my wallet is empty, knowing full well that in fact something is contained in the wallet and/or pockets.
If you say in fact that you have done nothing on a university assignment this is also untrue. Even if you have not completed anything you have in fact thought about the assignment and that in itself is work that will lead to the end assignment.
"Oh but Stubbers" you may say "You silly little fish fillet, you've forgotten, what if I specify a time period in which I did nothing". Ah yes, however during that time period you where breathing and your body presumably was working towards keeping you alive. If in fact it was then at that time you did do work on the assignment as staying alive will assist you in the completion of the goals set out by the assignment.
So next time you say you've done nothing, think about it, because even by saying you've done nothing you have in fact done a thing.
News Response :: Protection racket is bad policy
Before I start, I respect other peoples rights to have opinions, it's part of living in a democracy.
Today I read an opinion article written by a Senior Columnist with The Age, you can find it yourself at - http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/protection-racket-is-bad-policy-20090920-fwob.html
The article basically claims that the Australian government runs a protection racket for the other telco companies against Telstra. The ACCC has a long history of setting Telstra wholesale prices at levels which Telstra has claimed time and time again are unsustainable. However Telstra is still here today, and their profit statements show they aren't doing too badly either.
I'm gonna grab a few paragraphs from this article and debunk a couple of myths that the article seems to be spreading
The competitors are basically marketing and billing organisations.
Early on it's claimed that competitor companies, such as Primus, Optus, etc are nothing more than marketing and billing organisations. For starters this is a gross exaggeration at the lack of overhead work that these telco providers do. They provide all sorts of other services, the quality and level of these service depend on the specific provider. Just one example of this is TPG providing IPTV services, or voip services. Both things that Telstra doesn't provide to the average customer.
Each ISP also has a significant backend network, each of which is configured in a different way depending on the target audience. To claim that all these ISP's do is outsource to overseas call centers (which the article claims later) is a HUGE understatement of what these companies do. In fact many of them run local helpdesks, and employ many local technicians. Alot of them are even locally owned.
Big institutions such as hospitals, universities, utilities, big corporations, government departments and even schools already have access to direct fibre connections.
That certainly is not true. Many of the above institutions still operate on satellite services (and no, not just in remote areas) and DSL/Microwave services. Even then, many of these connections are not with Telstra, but with other ISPs.
In Devonport and Hobart, where the Tasmanian Government has been experimenting with building fibre to the home at Commonwealth expense, shows nobody wants it while the cheaper copper alternative is available.
Something many people sadly are forgetting or don't know about Fibre is the possibility for huge advancements in media. The amount of bandwidth a FTTH connection could provide could be used for all sorts of things. It could provide access to all sorts of media, including opening the door for community TV stations to start up. With the reduced cost of being able to broadcast your media across a Fibre channel as opposed to getting your own transmission tower up doors would open all over the place.
The governments FTTH project is expensive, and it is a gamble, but to say it is not and probably never will be required is nonsense. It would pave the way for technologies which we haven't even thought up yet. It would lead to more balanced services around the country as opposed to only being able to get fast internet if you happen to have a good enough phone line.
Copper wires, properly maintained, can give speeds up to 50 megabits, which is more than adequate for any need a household might conceivably imagine.
Very true. The fact is, our copper network is not properly maintained, and the technology for 50mbps over copper probably will never make it to Australias current copper network because of this. Today 50mbps is more than fast enough for a home users internet connection. But the fact is this doesn't exist in Australia. The fastest you can hope to get is 22mbps. And that's if you are lucky enough to be just around the corner from a major exchange, in a new building, where Telstra has recently laid new cable.
Too bad if you're a mate of mine who was recently left without internet because a cow chewed through his "properly maintained" copper wire from Telstra. It wasn't even buried. It was strung across the top of a fence.
I could go on but most people stopped reading a while back. The fact is Telstra is still making money, despite foul play cries for the past few years about product pricing on ULL and other such things. They still aren't maintaining the copper network out in the bush. We haven't heard anything in months about the so called FTTN project that was going to save us all.
My advice to you Kenneth Davidson is to take a closer look at the situation. And think about it. If the prices really are that unfair for Telstra, how are they still making money? How can they justify charging their retail customers what they do when their competitors charge SO much less and at much fairer terms? Why are their plans so much more expensive than others around the world? And why not separate Telstra?
Why not have a Retail and a Wholesale Telstra. Put everyone on the same footing.
Better deal for us Australians, better deal for those in the bush, and better deal for emerging ISPs.
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