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All the good internet countries have a socialist programme that is just how it has to be. The question is about cost benefit only for a spread out country like us and the higher costs of labour.

Bullshit.

America’s internet is socialist? Who the FUCK are ComCast then?

You claimed that “they” wanted Gillard and Newspoll was fixed to support her.

No, I didn’t.

Yes, you did, and it’s on record.

I said certainty in carbon pricing policy was wanted.

Yes people want certainty. They certainly want it repealed, forever.

lol

Who names their child after a typeface, with the surname “Brand”?

I think someone is having a lend.

The next line should be: “However, her friend, Times Roman Generic, disagreed.”

Yes, they have. Unfortunately for the nation, that’s not the same as saying that anything they promised wasn’t worse than fucking useless; nor is it the same as saying that anything useful they tried to do was done competently.

Their teachers tells them not to bother trying to use photoshop on them because by the time the file is ready they will have already finished their HSC.

You claimed that “they” wanted Gillard and Newspoll was fixed to support her.

No, I didn’t. I said certainty in carbon pricing policy was wanted. Just as in 1998 the possibility of GST failing a 2nd time was not an option, there is no desire to see carbon pricing to become a poison chalice either. The easiest is way is to have ALP re-elected – although if Tony Abbott were to give assurances he had no intention of keeping his promises in this area that would change the equation entirely. I have fairly consistent in saying this.

BTW, do you think the timing of the Craig Thomson arrest was a bit odd? No new information seems to have come to light, it just appears to be based on the credit card statements that have been in the public domain since 2010. No chance they were timing it so there was no chance that a premature byelection could bring down the government?

Would have been cheaper to have sent them all on a two week typing course using golfball typewriters – that worked for me when I was at school.

HIGH school students in NSW are becoming faster typists, and software experts, thanks to the computers in schools program.

Shay Silver, who teaches English at Balmain High School in Sydney’s inner west, said participation rates among students had improved.

“With the laptop I’ve seen them become really engaged and excited,” Ms Silver said.

“We’re building the workforce of the future in NSW.”

Another residual benefit of the computers program is that the students have become faster typists.

Year 9 student Kartika Brand said her typing skills had vastly improved since being given the netbook.

From my experience the “excitement and engagement” lasted about a week. The “workforce of the future” went back to playing video games and swapping pirated movies.

They are armed with an enterprise version of the new Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft Office, the Adobe CS4 creative suite, Apple iTunes, and content geared to students. Although the netbooks are loaded with many hundreds of dollars of software, 2GB RAM and a six-hour battery, the cost to the NSW Department of Education is less than $500 a unit.

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Over 400 technical support roles will be created in high schools statewide to manage and maintain netbooks and IT systems rolled out under the digital education revolution, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has revealed.

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The keyboards on the Netbooks are ridiculously small – so small, it took me about 6 attempts at typing my name the first time I used one.