tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post8079810660454167517..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: New direction for BloggerMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-91255614209535819802008-01-26T22:44:00.000+10:002008-01-26T22:44:00.000+10:00You mean Iranians have affordable satellite-delive...You mean Iranians have affordable satellite-delivered broadband?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps they haven't had telecoms policy run by crooks and fools for the last decade or three?<BR/><BR/>I find the <A HREF="http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index.asp" REL="nofollow">Tehran Times</A> considerably more balanced on world events than the <A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/" REL="nofollow">Times of London</A>, although it's much lower on the nubile model quotient.<BR/><BR/>The Times of India is also a good read.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the TIME it takes to download all of this on my unreliable ISDN 'service' is very long indeed. <BR/><BR/>Latest is that Telstra tells me the times they are a changing yet again. ISDN for home users will be phased out at the end of the year. <BR/><BR/>I have yet to hear whether this means a downgrade to dialup! <BR/><BR/>I registered a complaint some weeks ago after the latest service outage of more than 10 days, but no-one from Telstra has called. <BR/><BR/>I was promised that someone would call me about my 'future' after ISDN. No one has.<BR/><BR/>If it was down to me, I'd ask the Ayatollahs to take a sabbatical and sort out Telstra once and for all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-18761892909058699052008-01-26T21:37:00.000+10:002008-01-26T21:37:00.000+10:00I have been talking to Iranians on the internet fo...I have been talking to Iranians on the internet for years. The internet is very popular in Iran. My friends in Esfahan tell me that everyone they know has the internet connected and that there are satellite dishes on roofs everywhere. "Oprah" is popular in Iran and there are warehouse style shops like "Overflow" full of imported Chinese and Indian goods. Iranians like Hollywood movies and they are freely available. Tehran has a red light district and drug addiction is quite a problem.<BR/>University education is free in Iran, however students are then bonded to the Government for two to three years after graduation.<BR/>Females outnumber males in the universities, in some faculties, by two to one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-19029541188005549202008-01-26T20:40:00.000+10:002008-01-26T20:40:00.000+10:00Interesting that Farsi is no 10 in blogging langua...Interesting that Farsi is no 10 in blogging languages.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps Iran isn't quite the oppressive police state that the Zionist-dominated mainstream western media and their chums in government would have us believe?<BR/><BR/>How many bloggers do Bush, Sarkosy and Olmert want to bomb today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-47286226243522879102008-01-26T01:57:00.000+10:002008-01-26T01:57:00.000+10:00goodstuff Kiwi ...ka nui ngaa mihi2 more years and...goodstuff Kiwi ...<BR/>ka nui ngaa mihi<BR/>2 more years and we will think about it !!!<BR/>Ka kite ano<BR/><BR/>muzzaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com