RAIN RAIN RAIN

[lloydie]

Suns out ive just been out all morning works a bit slow at the moment. but just had a tax refund God my storm eats petrol worth it tho

its good to get out even when you only get 65 miles to a tank

[StormingHonda]

Dont know if anyones been watching the news, but every now and then they seem to be having a dig at the water companies in regards to the hose pipe ban and drought.

they ask them and the water companies have come back with.



1. It's the wrong kind of rain.
2. The ground has been to hard and its been hard to pump out the water.
3. It has rained in the wrong places.

[Kev L]

It's been poor management of a poorly valued resource for years that has led us to this position. Low investment into the infrastructure that services the industry and huge wasteage. Hopefully it will be a lesson learnt, but I doubt it.

[lumpyv]

It's been poor management of a poorly valued resource for years that has led us to this position. Low investment into the infrastructure that services the industry and huge wasteage. Hopefully it will be a lesson learnt, but I doubt it.

thats the problem with nationlising the utilities . it costs too much to do it properly and make millions of pounds of profit. oh and dont forget the chairman will need one or two million salary a year + shares + a fat pension deal.

[StormingHonda]

It's been poor management of a poorly valued resource for years that has led us to this position. Low investment into the infrastructure that services the industry and huge wasteage. Hopefully it will be a lesson learnt, but I doubt it.

thats the problem with nationlising the utilities . it costs too much to do it properly and make millions of pounds of profit. oh and dont forget the chairman will need one or two million salary a year + shares + a fat pension deal.

Private companies dont do any better, try and get broadband round my way, were still on ADSL, 4 miles away they have mega basket fast Broadband.

when I asked virgin, it wasnt worth them doing it.

[lumpyv]

It's been poor management of a poorly valued resource for years that has led us to this position. Low investment into the infrastructure that services the industry and huge wasteage. Hopefully it will be a lesson learnt, but I doubt it.

thats the problem with nationlising the utilities . it costs too much to do it properly and make millions of pounds of profit. oh and dont forget the chairman will need one or two million salary a year + shares + a fat pension deal.

Private companies dont do any better, try and get broadband round my way, were still on ADSL, 4 miles away they have mega basket fast Broadband.

when I asked virgin, it wasnt worth them doing it.

thats cos providing it is a business not a service. lots of well off folk living in big houses in the middle of nowhere moan like hell about slow adsl but they most likely voted for the party that privatised the post office. mind you i can only guess what service would be available if it hadnt been. but if theres no payback big firms wont bother

[rz_racer_69]

I thought ADSL was broadband, as in "Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access". We have warehouses in some remote areas that get by with 756KB, provided by local WiFi companies. No DSL (or adsl), or Cable, or 3G cellular. It's a big country over here, lol.

[lumpyv]

i think adsl and broadband are pretty much the same thing, sorry.



Asymmetric digital subscriber line

[rz_racer_69]

I guess I'm pretty lucky, my local cable provider gets me 20MB down and 3MB up for about 40$ a month. And I'm on the middle tier. They seem to raise it every so often.

[StormingHonda]

thats cos providing it is a business not a service. lots of well off folk living in big houses in the middle of nowhere moan like hell about slow adsl but they most likely voted for the party that privatised the post office. mind you i can only guess what service would be available if it hadnt been. but if theres no payback big firms wont bother

there providing water arent they?, and as with broad band you need to lay fibre optic cables, a bit like the water company laying pipes that dont leak, the difference between private and nationlised companies is the private one tend to screw its workforce and customers a bit more.

If the phone service wasnt privitised i rekon fibre optic cable would have been common place around the country, unless its in real remote areas.

[StormingHonda]

I thought ADSL was broadband, as in "Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access". We have warehouses in some remote areas that get by with 756KB, provided by local WiFi companies. No DSL (or adsl), or Cable, or 3G cellular. It's a big country over here, lol.

No its just dail up on steriods, with no limit on time used. .

[futterbingers]

Rain? I've been in Oz, it was 30ºc, just like here......

[rz_racer_69]

32º-33ºC here for the rest of the week. Hopefully we will get the rain that is forecast for next week, without the tornadoes this time please!

[futterbingers]

32ºc? I'm taking it you're not in the Uk then?

[tony.mon]

He means fahrenheit.