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Reply #60 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 2:00pm  
Bobby. wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:51pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:10pm:
When guitarists adjust the knobs on their amps and pedals they use clock references if there are no numbers.

A neighbour asked me if I could help her kid get a good sound out of a particular pedal they had just bought.

I told the kid to set the knobs at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock for the sound they were after.

The poor kid was so confused - they had no idea how to do that   Grin




Pecca,
that is shameful - the teachers should be in jail.


It's not the teachers' fault - they still teach it in primary school, up to grade four I think.

The problem is technology - kids today hardly ever see an analogue clock.

All they've ever known is digital.
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Reply #61 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 3:14pm  
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The problem is technology - kids today hardly ever see an analogue clock.

All they've ever known is digital.


Recently I had thought about all that.
With being able to ask Siri or whatever to write out resumes, or ask anything for an answer, etc means… will any of them ever know how to spell properly or read or even know how to use a dictionary?
(I have a very well used and tattered dictionary I used for decades!  Grin)

It feels like they are making our future gen reliant on tech for everything.
Giving away their own efforts or bother.
Their attention span has shortened due to being on the net a lot.

Is this the way of dumbing down the future? To therefore be totally reliant on technology and computerised robots etc?

Do any know how to count money or give correct change? Not unless it’s all done on the register for them. Thus why cash will diminish because tech is doing all the computations in place of human thinking brain.
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Reply #62 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 3:25pm  
Sophia wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 3:14pm:
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The problem is technology - kids today hardly ever see an analogue clock.

All they've ever known is digital.


Recently I had thought about all that.
With being able to ask Siri or whatever to write out resumes, or ask anything for an answer, etc means… will any of them ever know how to spell properly or read or even know how to use a dictionary?
(I have a very well used and tattered dictionary I used for decades!  Grin)

It feels like they are making our future gen reliant on tech for everything.
Giving away their own efforts or bother.
Their attention span has shortened due to being on the net a lot.

Is this the way of dumbing down the future? To therefore be totally reliant on technology and computerised robots etc?

Do any know how to count money or give correct change? Not unless it’s all done on the register for them. Thus why cash will diminish because tech is doing all the computations in place of human thinking brain.


Nope.

I've experienced it first hand.

I bought something for $6.50 and gave the person behind the counter a $20 note.

They had no idea what to do.  They froze.
(EFTPOS was down)


In the end, they had to call the manager into the front of the shop to tell them how much change to give me.

I was genuinely shocked.
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Reply #63 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 3:54pm  
Gnads wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 9:42am:
OMG  Grin Grin Grin journey? to Gladstone? 1 hour down the road.

And you bitch about Telstra blocking access to your phone services because you hadn't paid your bill?

It must have been unpaid for a while because they don't cut you off straight after the due date.

I've been up to a week over due - never been cut off - you may get charged a late fee.

As for you needing Google Maps to find your way home from Gladstone to Rocky - up highway NO.1  Grin

And you were crapping on about being old school for card transactions as a GenXer or Gen Y?

What a dill.  Roll Eyes


A journey from Gladstone. Getting to Gladstone was a breeze. Drive for 50 minutes south. Then do the turn off and drive another 15 minutes along the road into Gladstone.

It had been at least 10 years before that when I drove from Gladstone to Rockhampton. Back then, it was a matter of transporting goods for work. I made sure that I did not miss the turn off to get back to Rockhampton.

In my defence, I did have a medical condition where I was confused. And given that the Telstra decided to bar me from using my phone for an overdue payment, it is unbelievable that they would not let me use my phone to find my way back to town. Realistically, Telstra should have voided my next bill to make up for the fuel I had to use to get back home.

Telstra are in debt to me a long time. You would think that they would take better care of my account, even if I was 2 months overdue.
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Reply #64 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 5:19pm  
https://archive.is/20260708221723/https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tech...

Labor is threatening Telstra with $30m fines


and branded the entire telecommunications industry Australia’s “least trusted”, after a broken data centre clock sparked its worst nationwide outage in a decade, triggering economic chaos and leaving more than 300 people unable to make triple-0 emergency calls.


Telstra chief financial officer Michael Ackland – who fronted the media because chief executive Vicki Brady was overseas on ­annual leave – said the telco was yet to pinpoint the root cause but it appeared to be a “software defect” and there was “nothing to indicate malicious activity”.


“This was not the result of a cyber incident,” he said, adding there was no link between the outage and laying off thousands of staff in the past two years. But he could rule out the involvement of artificial intelligence.


Telstra – considered Australia’s premium telco, given its higher prices and unrivalled coverage – is facing potentially millions of dollars in fines after more than 300 customers could not call police, ambulance and other emergency services during the outage, which began about 4.30am on Wednesday and up-ended peak-hour commutes.


V/Line was forced to shut down all main train services into Melbourne, including from Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo. Transport NSW said the Southern Highlands and Hunter lines were also not running. EV charging network Chargefox said Telstra customers could not access its chargers during the outage.
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Reply #65 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 5:51pm  
UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 3:54pm:
Gnads wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 9:42am:
OMG  Grin Grin Grin journey? to Gladstone? 1 hour down the road.

And you bitch about Telstra blocking access to your phone services because you hadn't paid your bill?

It must have been unpaid for a while because they don't cut you off straight after the due date.

I've been up to a week over due - never been cut off - you may get charged a late fee.

As for you needing Google Maps to find your way home from Gladstone to Rocky - up highway NO.1  Grin

And you were crapping on about being old school for card transactions as a GenXer or Gen Y?

What a dill.  Roll Eyes


A journey from Gladstone. Getting to Gladstone was a breeze. Drive for 50 minutes south. Then do the turn off and drive another 15 minutes along the road into Gladstone.

It had been at least 10 years before that when I drove from Gladstone to Rockhampton. Back then, it was a matter of transporting goods for work. I made sure that I did not miss the turn off to get back to Rockhampton.

In my defence, I did have a medical condition where I was confused. And given that the Telstra decided to bar me from using my phone for an overdue payment, it is unbelievable that they would not let me use my phone to find my way back to town. Realistically, Telstra should have voided my next bill to make up for the fuel I had to use to get back home.

Telstra are in debt to me a long time. You would think that they would take better care of my account, even if I was 2 months overdue.



Are you joking? Phuk me hooray.

*1. If you had a medical condition that causes you confusion you shouldn't be driving.

*2. Why should Telstra let you use your phone because you were lost?

*3. Why on earth do you realistically/rationally believe Telstra should void your next bill because of the fuel you used getting lost? You hadn't even paid the last one.

*4. If you were out at Dululu you would have had to go through Calliope which is on the western side of the highway turn off you missed.  Roll Eyes Dululu is 146klm from Calliope. And you would also have had to go through Jambin. Or you were stupid enough to go even further into Biloela.

*5. Medical conditions caused by self medicating(alcohol or drugs) are no excuse.

*6. You should have shut your trap i.e. quit whilst you were ahead & not elaborated any further about your delusion & stupidity.  Grin

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Reply #66 - Jul 11th, 2026 at 6:35pm  
Bobby. wrote on Jul 10th, 2026 at 3:16pm:
UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 10th, 2026 at 3:13pm:
Back in the late 1990s, we had some sort of network failure at our fast food store. We had to go from EFTPOS to those manual credit card machines. We were Generation X and Generation Y staff members that still knew how to old school transactions.

Kids these days would lose their marbles at the idea of these things existing. One kid asked me what was a VCR.



Kids these days can't even tell the time on an analog clock.  Roll Eyes



And heaven help them if the analogue clock had Roman numerals.    Shocked
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Reply #67 - Jul 12th, 2026 at 1:09pm  
A massive Telstra outage that impacted millions of Australians has been blamed on an “unreliable network” caused by the offshoring of hundreds of jobs to India.

Internal Telstra sources told The Sydney Morning Herald the outage was caused by a software bug triggered by a botched firmware upgrade, but Communication Workers Union national secretary Shane Murphy said the “utterly shameful” outage was a direct result of recent job cuts.

More than 400 jobs were moved to Indian technology company Infosys in February, and Ms Brady told staff by email at the time they could reapply with the India-based company or take a redundancy.

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The outage comes after Indian IT engineers were blamed for a 13-hour Triple-Zero outage on rival network Optus that left at least three people dead across Australia in September.


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Reply #68 - Jul 12th, 2026 at 1:19pm  
Frank wrote on Jul 12th, 2026 at 1:09pm:
A massive Telstra outage that impacted millions of Australians has been blamed on an “unreliable network” caused by the offshoring of hundreds of jobs to India.

Internal Telstra sources told The Sydney Morning Herald the outage was caused by a software bug triggered by a botched firmware upgrade, but Communication Workers Union national secretary Shane Murphy said the “utterly shameful” outage was a direct result of recent job cuts.

More than 400 jobs were moved to Indian technology company Infosys in February, and Ms Brady told staff by email at the time they could reapply with the India-based company or take a redundancy.

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The outage comes after Indian IT engineers were blamed for a 13-hour Triple-Zero outage on rival network Optus that left at least three people dead across Australia in September.


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Good to see you supporting the Unions, Frank.
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Reply #69 - Jul 12th, 2026 at 2:10pm  
yes Frank:
the Union blames the Indians:

https://www.news.com.au/national/thousands-reporting-telstra-outage-in-australia...

July 8, 2026

Communication Workers Union national secretary Shane Murphy said Telstra’s sacking of hundreds of its workforce over the past 12 months contributed to the chaos.

Mr Murphy said the telco’s decision to cut hundreds of jobs earlier in the year led to an “unreliable network”.

In February, the telco announced 650 jobs were on the chopping block or being outsourced to Indian firm Infosys, eight months after axing 550 other roles.

“This is what happens when you prioritise the bottom line over critical services; you get an unreliable network that lets Australians down time and time again,” Mr Murphy said.
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Reply #70 - Jul 12th, 2026 at 3:32pm  
Gnads wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 5:51pm:
Are you joking? Phuk me hooray.

*1. If you had a medical condition that causes you confusion you shouldn't be driving.

*2. Why should Telstra let you use your phone because you were lost?

*3. Why on earth do you realistically/rationally believe Telstra should void your next bill because of the fuel you used getting lost? You hadn't even paid the last one.

*4. If you were out at Dululu you would have had to go through Calliope which is on the western side of the highway turn off you missed.  Roll Eyes Dululu is 146klm from Calliope. And you would also have had to go through Jambin. Or you were stupid enough to go even further into Biloela.

*5. Medical conditions caused by self medicating(alcohol or drugs) are no excuse.

*6. You should have shut your trap i.e. quit whilst you were ahead & not elaborated any further about your delusion & stupidity.  Grin


If I could not be medically cleared to drive from Gladstone to Rockhampton, then 90% of people with driver's licences should not be driving either.

The cause of my confusion was from a stroke I had 8 months earlier. I am capable of driving. And I am capable of doing most things in my then condition. What I did not know was a route to get back to Rockhampton in a journey that I had not taken for 10 years earlier.

I actually felt like going for a drive to Gladstone today, just as a way to convince myself that I was capable to do so. In fact, I might even do that tonight.

Telstra took my money, but applied a bar on my phone because they were being a bunch of pricks. Given the history between me and Telstra, I should be getting free usage of my phone and internet. But, Telstra just wanted to be an arsehole organisation for me being overdue on a phone bill by a week. After tomorrow, if I don't pay the rest of my phone invoice ($12), I will be overdue. I would not be surprised if they put a bar on me after a week, again.
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Reply #71 - Jul 13th, 2026 at 10:14pm  

One way to fix this is for the emergency services to be forced to monitor
the CB radio UHF bands and for people to buy CB radio UHF hand held sets.
I just had a look and they are on sale for as little as $69 from Bunnings
https://www.bunnings.com.au/oricom-uhf2200-2-watt-handheld-uhf-cb-radio-single-p...

There are many more expensive ones from other places too
with more power and features.

The average person pays about $600 these days for a smart phone
and many people pay around $2,000  so the price of a UHF CB is not that much
for some redundancy - especially for people with medical conditions
who could need to call 000.
At the moment the emergency services don't even monitor
the emergency channels on UHF - as far as I know.
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Reply #72 - Jul 14th, 2026 at 9:14am  
greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 2:00pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:51pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:10pm:
When guitarists adjust the knobs on their amps and pedals they use clock references if there are no numbers.

A neighbour asked me if I could help her kid get a good sound out of a particular pedal they had just bought.

I told the kid to set the knobs at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock for the sound they were after.

The poor kid was so confused - they had no idea how to do that   Grin




Pecca,
that is shameful - the teachers should be in jail.


It's not the teachers' fault - they still teach it in primary school, up to grade four I think.

The problem is technology - kids today hardly ever see an analogue clock.

All they've ever known is digital.




There are still many many watches & well known brands at that on the market today that have analogue displays.

Smart phones even have that option in settings.

It should still be taught in schools.
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Reply #73 - Jul 14th, 2026 at 9:24am  
Gnads wrote on Jul 14th, 2026 at 9:14am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 2:00pm:
Bobby. wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:51pm:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 1:10pm:
When guitarists adjust the knobs on their amps and pedals they use clock references if there are no numbers.

A neighbour asked me if I could help her kid get a good sound out of a particular pedal they had just bought.

I told the kid to set the knobs at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock for the sound they were after.

The poor kid was so confused - they had no idea how to do that   Grin




Pecca,
that is shameful - the teachers should be in jail.


It's not the teachers' fault - they still teach it in primary school, up to grade four I think.

The problem is technology - kids today hardly ever see an analogue clock.

All they've ever known is digital.




There are still many many watches & well known brands at that on the market today that have analogue displays.

Smart phones even have that option in settings.

It should still be taught in schools.


It is.
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Reply #74 - Jul 14th, 2026 at 9:28am  
UnSubRocky wrote on Jul 12th, 2026 at 3:32pm:
Gnads wrote on Jul 11th, 2026 at 5:51pm:
Are you joking? Phuk me hooray.

*1. If you had a medical condition that causes you confusion you shouldn't be driving.

*2. Why should Telstra let you use your phone because you were lost?

*3. Why on earth do you realistically/rationally believe Telstra should void your next bill because of the fuel you used getting lost? You hadn't even paid the last one.

*4. If you were out at Dululu you would have had to go through Calliope which is on the western side of the highway turn off you missed.  Roll Eyes Dululu is 146klm from Calliope. And you would also have had to go through Jambin. Or you were stupid enough to go even further into Biloela.

*5. Medical conditions caused by self medicating(alcohol or drugs) are no excuse.

*6. You should have shut your trap i.e. quit whilst you were ahead & not elaborated any further about your delusion & stupidity.  Grin


If I could not be medically cleared to drive from Gladstone to Rockhampton, then 90% of people with driver's licences should not be driving either.

The cause of my confusion was from a stroke I had 8 months earlier. I am capable of driving. And I am capable of doing most things in my then condition. What I did not know was a route to get back to Rockhampton in a journey that I had not taken for 10 years earlier.

I actually felt like going for a drive to Gladstone today, just as a way to convince myself that I was capable to do so. In fact, I might even do that tonight.

Telstra took my money, but applied a bar on my phone because they were being a bunch of pricks. Given the history between me and Telstra, I should be getting free usage of my phone and internet. But, Telstra just wanted to be an arsehole organisation for me being overdue on a phone bill by a week. After tomorrow, if I don't pay the rest of my phone invoice ($12), I will be overdue. I would not be surprised if they put a bar on me after a week, again.


No they didn't - you hadn't paid for over 2 months (not a week) by your own admission.

Furthermore your history with Telstra indicates that you must have been a chronic late payer.

Pay your bills & you won't have a problem.

Use a pre-paid plan.

They don't owe you a damned thing.

On their website like many other service providers - like electricity companies etc. they have a contact number to ring if your are experiencing financial hardship .......

I bet you abused that privilige as well?

Had had a stroke ey? That's unfortunate - but in all honesty what haven't you had happen to you?

And if you had not been medically cleared to drive after your stroke - then you had no business being behind the wheel of a car.

The fact that you were still in a "confused" state of mind is testament to that.

Stop digging the hole you're in - it's deep enough. sshh  Roll Eyes
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