Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN 385
An anonymous reader writes "It's a well known fact that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a fan of Australia and now we know why. He supports a national broadband network — a scheme being rolled out by the Australian government to provide fibre 'for everyone' — so much he's applying for citizenship, the Australian Financial Review reports. You can be assured that he's not giving up his American citizenship though, he told Brisbane radio."
And for U.S. citizens: "Despite his status as a technology icon, Mr Wozniak said he was not connected to a broadband service in his home in California, classing the options available to him as a 'monopoly.' 'There’s only one set of wires to be on and I’m not going to pull strings to get them to do something special for me,' he said .... 'I've sat with our FCC commissioner and told him that story in his office, but it’s not going to happen. We just don’t have the political idea to bring broadband to all the people who are 1 kilometer too far away.'"
Re:That's like applying to be Canadian... (Score:4, Funny)
Want fiber (Score:5, Funny)
This sucks, in Tokyo they've have fiber for years. I can illegally download a movie in a minute instead of like three minutes.
Re:That's like applying to be Canadian... (Score:5, Funny)
>Er, wait... did you guys do anything about all those deadly creatures crawling around your city streets?
What, Bogans? They only think that they're dangerous.
Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen (Score:5, Funny)
Australia is a nation built on immigration and welcomes those who aspire to the Australian way of life, in the same way as the Puritans, Unitarians, Amish and other religious folks left Europe for the American Colonies all those centuries ago, rather than fighting tooth and nail for religious freedom in the countries of their birth. Conversely, guys like Rupert Murdoch and Mel Gibson are also welcome to fuck off at their own pleasure.
American born Australians are welcome to participate and integrate fully into Australian public life, we even had an American born Premier of New South Wales recently.
This is the Australia of the past, where the displaced Greeks and Itailians came in droves after the war, the 10 pound poms after them seeking a better life on our fair shores. All this started turning around in the 80s as demonstrated in the documentary Romper Stomper.
The Australia of today is a very different place where immigrants are treated with disgust and suspicion, the evil brown people are accused of turking jerbs, you're told to Fit In or Fuck Off, because all the immigrants need to Fuck Off Were Full, or so the stickers on the back of chevrodores keep telling us. I mean how can the Bogan have 3 kids and if we're that full. How can the Bogan afford his jet ski and McMansion if the Abbos keep taking all his tax money, after deduction he's already taxed at 20% which barely pays for the money the government gives him for child care.
How is the Bogan supposed to drink a bottle of Jimmy and threaten to "smash" everyone on his stumble home if this keeps happening. Wont someone think of the Bogan?
Re:That's like applying to be Canadian... (Score:4, Funny)
Do not take this advice!!! Breeding Nerds would threaten the integrity of the Space Time Continuum... go back to reading "Onan the Barbarian" and pretend you never saw this.
Re:Why not Europe instead? (Score:4, Funny)
... nasty wildlife ...
We have kangaroos jumping down our main streets that would kick you in the guts as soon as hug you. Then, there's drop bears...
Re:That's like applying to be Canadian... (Score:4, Funny)
...Steve's inclinations with regard to recreational substances
From photos of Steve, I would guess pizza is his recreational substance of choice.