longweekend58 wrote on Jan 13^th, 2016 at 6:49pm:

That is actually abuse, but you will get away with it.

It is also cover for you not knowing most subjects that gets discussed here, goes with a lack of ability to argue logically.

It was $20Bn for the two audits, and NBN Co are looking at the state of the copper in detail, i.e. an audit.

I said the cost will be closer to $150Bn than whatever fudged figure NBN Co put in their Strategic Review. It has increased to $56Bn with hardly anything rolled out as yet.

I said the 48mm diameter HFC cables would put a huge strain on the power poles, and they will. The bit about the poles being pulled out the ground was me quoting one council worried about cars doing just that.

The Optus HFC HAS to be rebuilt. god knows what disasters will be uncovered with the Telstra HFC?

For a religious character you sure tell a lot of lies, Maria/Longy.

Mothra, firstly my apologies, I had a chuckle to myself when I saw FD's ONLY response was to move your thread to relationships. My theory on this is that this is FD's way of letting you know your concerns are a waste of time... He won't be doing squat about anything herein.

I chuckled, because my first thought when I first read your thread is that FD will move this, probably to relationships because he seems to use that as his dumping ground...

I apologies because such a contemptible action probably is not really funny at the end of the day.

Now, to other matters...

Aqua - please keep on reading your self help books.

I would recommend though that you either do a course on comprehension, read the entire book or purchase better quality books... They are about your only three options based on the utter nonsense you post.

I suggested to you (quite respectfully as I recall it) reading up on Meta-cognition - clearly you have not though, or you have not grasped it. Now the reason I suggested that to you specifically was because you seem to be interested in this stuff and you make posts that seem to talk around exactly what Meta-cognition is all about. Except you consistently miss the mark...

You spent some time here talking about ego, further, you did so seemingly from a perspective that you have mastered this. Respectfully though, I say to you, if you had truly mastered your own ego you would not need to fall back of left vs right paradigm in your comments. Your personal commitment to right wing thinking is absolutely your choice of course, your demonstrated commitment to justify your decision to be a right wing supporter on your "self help" manuals diatribes about "ego" is demonstrative of your own ego's need to be correct in your decision to be a right wing supporter... Even more so, when flaws in your plastic bubble world (that you call reality...) are pointed out, you respond that they are not "true" rightards (pretty sure rightard is the expression you use, if not my apologies). Once again though, that is your ego talking, nothing more.

Now, you mentioned also, right/left brain thinking regarding being "emotional"... Once again, I will demonstrate that your information is either totally wrong, or you have not comprehended what was written. Right and Left parts of the brain have very specific and necessary functions, ironically, very little to do with emotions overall. As should normally be expected, a fair smattering of individuals favour one hemisphere over another - this is a good thing though, without those individuals we would not have advance mathematics, art, music or even a very advanced concept of logic or philosophy. I am sure you would agree all those things are kind of important in the grand scheme of our species existence.

What you are alluding to though, when you talk about emotional responses are the Amygdala (you have a right and left one of these two). In very simple terms, this is the accelerator - this is the part of our brain that responds first and foremost to emotional triggers. The spot where flight, fight or freeze occurs. It is a normal part of the human brain.

Of course, we are a species with (theoretically) some pretty unique "wiring" in our brain that link the Amygdala up with our frontal cortex (lobe), now that bit of the brain is where we can be more analytical, abstract, thoughtful and, rely on what we have previously learned and/or experienced in order to thoughtfully respond to any given situation, rather than just reacting emotionally. Clearly, that process takes a bit of practice and, even with practice, it is absolutely normal for us not to get this right every single time in our lives. Hopefully though, we get it right during important times mostly.

Finally, using ideas about how we think, responding to our emotions and ego to justify, dismiss and/or minimise what is patently abusive, derogatory and threatening behaviour is NOT at all what any self help book is about, ever, even the rubbish ones that are out there. One would reasonably expect slightly better, to be honest, from a father of daughters.

No, the council was worried a car or truck would get tangled up in the cable and so bring the pole down.

Unlike you I don’t think hanging thick heavy cables between poles adds no net force to the pole. Poles might need to be replaced/reinforced but I never said they would just topple over.

I have been 100% consistent on what I said about the MTM mess and its costs. The costs have already shot up to $56Bn with hardly anything built—do you REALLY think costs won’t blow out much more than that? Of course they will!

The opportunity cost of stopping the FTTH roll out, doing nothing but bits of infill now faffing around with FTTN over Telstra copper and Telstra HFC is even bigger than the cost of the MTM mess.

Are those lines 48mm diameter? It was a council had that concern.

Do you agree the cost of the MTM mess has already blown out to $56Bn? That is an NBN Co figure.

Do you think that figure will blow out as the kludge gets rolled out?

Simple questions.

longweekend58 wrote on Jan 14^th, 2016 at 5:27pm:

If you believe that crap about the no net force then you are brainwashed. Heavy thick cables are going to exert huge force down and to a smaller extent laterally on the poles. If you can’t see that then you know no maths or physics.