[clug] [OT] Broadband clangers

[Ben Nizette]

On 15/08/2010, at 5:26 PM, Sam Couter wrote:

> Ben Nizette <bn at niasdigital.com> wrote:
>> A good example of this point is of course the climate change debate.  My cousin works for a major polling agency and told me the other day that she hates it there at the moment.  The federal government have commissioned 4 surveys over the last 3 years and have just commissioned a 5th trying to gauge the public readiness for climate change legislation.  The reason for my cousin hating her job is that "it's so depressing when you see the results, the public are so ready for change it's unbelievable.  Or work says the policy will make it past the people but it just can't make it past the politicians".
> 
> What questions are they asking to get these answers? I doubt most people
> really want to pay more for petrol or groceries. I'm in the distinct
> minority when I say petrol and electricity are way cheaper than their
> true cost and should be more expensive.

I don't have any more details than that, though as I say these are a prominent polling company asked to assess public readiness.

I would say that in my personal experience people wouldn't be willing to pay more for electricity or groceries either, however my personal experience isn't really a representative sample.  I'd be interested to see the uptake rates of sustainable energy and organic produce purchase because these are exactly cases of people spending more money in the name of the environment.

Not to mention the silly sods who buy Prius'

> 
>> Right!  Cheryl Kernot is running for the Senate again at this election (as an independent) and during an interview she said "Yesterday's solutions are todays problems.  Why can't people accept that and accept it when parties change their policies?".
> 
> Because flip-flopping is a sign of weakness. Only weaklings can't
> predict the future forever, only weaklings make mistakes, and only
> weaklings try to correct past mistakes. You don't want a weakling in
> charge, do you?

Right, Governator is the only way to go.  I wonder what Sam Worthington's doing in 3 years.. ;-)

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