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Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Bobstar posted:

I think we're winning, if "the PM would be a bad network engineer" is their comeback.

"Help Jeremy, my internet isn't working, what do I do?"

"Have you tried turning it off and on and then nationalising it?"

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Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
Are there countries with free broadband for every citizen?

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

coffeetable posted:

i don't think any of those have nationalized internet provision? it's more a testament to the leapfrog effect than anything

Look back in the thread a bit. We, Japan and South Korea were all putting our fibre networks together through massive public investment until Thatcher panicked about the loss of competition and pulled out.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
It's cool how everyone is raging abour government censorship if the government controls the internet like a) that doesn't happen already and b) they also introduced a digital charter of rights covering that kind of thing

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Rude Dude With Tude posted:

Boris Johnson's response after being asked how normal swamp dwelling proles could possibly relate to the World King is fantastic.

https://twitter.com/hardcastIe/status/1195267953610149888

Wow.

I mean... gently caress. How is this prick our Prime Minister?

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

my UKIP mum posted:

we are making waves, just had the Labour candidate phone up [former ukip, brexit supporting independent candidate] James Towell and offer to take on his policies if he stands down, he told him to gently caress off,. Brilliant we are upsetting them!

:thunk:

Hard to believe a labour candidate would be scared of an independent brexiter stealing his votes

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Bundy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoYCvtNxPk

Live announcement from Corbyn, expected to be the broadband announcement.

Woo he's doing it from my old uni, red roses represent!

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

sebzilla posted:

Wow.

I mean... gently caress. How is this prick our Prime Minister?

100k insane old shitheads voted for him

well, 60% of them

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

This is the opening video

https://twitter.com/DaveWardGS/status/1195263726909300736

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005





What's that floating in the room around Corbyn? Looks like someone has set off a chaff grenade.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1195163724786606086?s=19

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


I dunno what the Tories are gonna do to top this for today's news cycle. Images of Bill Cash ritually disemboweling an EU citizen?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

revolutionary anime tiddy

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


we're nationalising greggs AND pornhub

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

Necrothatcher posted:

What's that floating in the room around Corbyn? Looks like someone has set off a chaff grenade.

That's Corbyn gathering energy, DBZ style.

Soon he will unleash the manifesto Spirit Bomb.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

coffeetable posted:

i don't think any of those have nationalized internet provision? it's more a testament to the leapfrog effect than anything
KT built most of their infrastructure and metropolitan provision before privatization in 2001, NTT was effectively a state monopoly in all but name until 1999 too. Leapfrog accounts for some of it, but no private company wanted to stump up the cash or risk to leap that particular frog.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Tesseraction posted:

we're nationalising greggs AND pornhub

And then you can treat your burned bellend at the NHS, build me a path from cradle to grave indeed.

jabby
Oct 27, 2010

It's a nice touch that they're calling the company "British Broadband" as a sop to the gammons. Of course the router can have a big union jack on it, whatever, as long as we get our loving nationalised utilities.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Can't wait for the questions all being about anti-semitism and WONT YOU BANKRUPT THE COUNTRY JEREMY

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

jabby posted:

It's a nice touch that they're calling the company "British Broadband" as a sop to the gammons. Of course the router can have a big union jack on it, whatever, as long as we get our loving nationalised utilities.

WHY DOESN'T MY ROUTER HAVE A loving POPPY

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Tesseraction posted:

WHY DOESN'T MY ROUTER HAVE A loving POPPY

The dialtone should be the Internationale.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum
Downloading big tiddy anime for are boys

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

jabby posted:

It's a nice touch that they're calling the company "British Broadband" as a sop to the gammons. Of course the router can have a big union jack on it, whatever, as long as we get our loving nationalised utilities.

CGI Stardust
Nov 7, 2010


Brexit is but a door,
election time is but a window.

I'll be back
you can tell it's full fibre because the Tories are dropping a massive poo poo

Nothingtoseehere
Nov 11, 2010


Free provision is great for avoiding privatization aswell - no point privatizing a service that can't charge, and people will go ballistic about having to pay for internet once they are used to it being free.

Aphex-
Jan 29, 2006

Dinosaur Gum

Send this to Labour HQ immediately

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

HorseLord posted:

No, that's not true. Sinclair made stereos. It was their longest business.



Eh, fair point, Radionics made a lot of stuff, but it's still an odd reference especially as we were talking about Micro Men which was about Sinclair Research, it's like talking about Pachinko machines when talking about Nintendo.

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005




lol John McDonnell is killing it at this policy announcement

KOGAHAZAN!!
Apr 29, 2013

a miserable failure as a person

an incredible success as a magical murder spider


Second time "shareholders (pension funds)" caught my eye this week. Not sure how well "the capital class is just your kind ol' gran" is going to flying, coming hot on the heels of "it's not a class divide, it's a generational divide!!".

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
hows the corbyn campaign going? any smears/bullshit campaigning against labour?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

"I don't know where Javid learned his maths, but we'll pay for him to take another course"

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Kurtofan posted:

hows the corbyn campaign going? any smears/bullshit campaigning against labour?

Guardian posted a letter from millionaires, many not Jewish, saying "Don't vote Labour because they're anti-Semites"

Daily Mail said CORBYN MUST STEP DOWN

the usual shite

NinpoEspiritoSanto
Oct 22, 2013




Bundy posted:

Looking forward to this ageing like milk as Labour announce a massive uplift to social housing over the next few days too lol

Aaand there goes McDonnell addressing it like a boss.

Bobstar
Feb 8, 2006

KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

KOGAHAZAN!! posted:

Second time "shareholders (pension funds)" caught my eye this week. Not sure how well "the capital class is just your kind ol' gran" is going to flying, coming hot on the heels of "it's not a class divide, it's a generational divide!!".

Seems to be a last-ditch argument, now they've noticed that people are waking up to the divide. "But look! The evil thing is connected to ordinary people's pensions. And since there's no other possible way of organising pension provision, I guess you're stuck with the evil thing"

midori-a-gogo
Feb 26, 2006

feeling a bit green

goddamnedtwisto posted:

(I don't credit her for soft-serve ice cream because it's an abomination)

she had nothing to do with it anyway, so nobody else should feel guilty about eating it (even though it is an abomination)

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider
The Internet is a series of tubes, and each tube must have a different provider, because otherwise it would not be a series. More middlemen please!

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

He literally addressed the pensions thing in the inital article.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Orange Devil posted:

I don't want to kinkshame but voluntarily having sex with BoJo is really out there.

Been said that wanting to have sex with adult and apparently consenting women he's not closely related to is probably a huge step up for tories

Ratjaculation
Aug 3, 2007

:parrot::parrot::parrot:



lol at bojo going full on lovely pub hardman when someone challenged him on foodbanks

That's why I'm voting Tory, because Boris isn't afraid to use our nuclear deterrent.

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Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


https://twitter.com/huwlemmey/status/1195307972018286593?s=20

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