dynodb
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join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| reply to Ignite
Re: Absolutely Not
said by Ignite  : We'll see - their efficiency may surprise you. First step is recognising what you need to do and a lot of these things can be done in parallel. Because if government is known for anything, it's their overwhelmingly consistant efficiency 
From what I've heard, broadband access in Australia isn't very good; however this will come in overbudget, past deadline, and with problems of it's own. Look at all the failed muni efforts here in the US. |
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bombadill
Honest it just fell apart in my hands
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join:2008-11-10
australia
 ·Internode
| Hey, dynodb; you are so right.
But; I'll lay good odds that the Pyramids, the Colosseum, the Hoover Dam and any large, and I do mean Humongous, project all came in late, over budget and riddled with all sorts of scams and inefficiencies.
Would you bulldoze any of them??. Of course not.
At least it is a vision and a goal to aim at.
We have down here a good record with big government projects that eventually came good. Snowy River Hydro-Electric Scheme; Sydney Opera House, and now this.
I think it will in the long run be a real winner.  |
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | Hoover Dam was built UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF TIME
>.> but yea every thing else pretty much |
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jmn1207
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join:2000-07-19
Reston, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
| said by elios :Hoover Dam was built UNDER BUDGET AND AHEAD OF TIME >.> but yea every thing else pretty much Australia only needs to suffer through a terrible global depression so that labor is abundant and practically free, and then somehow come up with what many consider to be one of the world's top engineering achievements. I can see it now, the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Eiffel Tower, and Australia's Fiber Network? Good luck. 
As for the odd-looking Sydney Opera House, in 1957 it was estimated to be completed in 1963 at a total cost of $7 million. In the end it was finished in 1973 for $102 million. Just a bit over budget while taking a little longer than expected to complete. |
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