Except when it can’t make any calls because antenna firmware not having the right updates or some bs like that. This industry is a hot mess and I’m about to tap out.

Yea. That’s part of it. Keep reading.

Honestly, I’m sick of this industry and wasting my money on them. I’ll make do with a new $100 phone from the post office in case I need to make an emergency call. 000 will still work even without a sim.

Over many years the providers & industry have been allowed to manufacture the problem and they now get the opportunity to sell customers the solution with new handsets, all whilst harming competition, increasing profits and cutting costs by shutting down the 3G network.

How is this legal?! So the likes of Telstra are blocking otherwise functional phones?

Good to here Max Chandler Mather out there again showing some solidarity.

agreed. Is Ferguson always like this? Max did well not getting pushed around.

Does this mean the articles will read less like a tabloid and more like news again?

Ian should be replaced.

AFP child abusers. Who cares about the cost. This operation was harmful to the community and to the child, who has a right to/needed proper education around ethics & morals not this cloak & dagger manipulation.

More like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdYYIVoCvsM&t=779

It’s not a choice between blaming the scooter or the truck driver. It’s a choice between building safe light-vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or car-centric urban planning.

Cars and trucks are linked with injuries and hospital visits [edit: and deaths] of pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooters – but let’s just blame the victim, shall we?

This case is more controversial within the US government than you might think.

Agree. We don’t need hsr, we need more services on the existing normal-speed tracks. Adelaide-Melbourne is currently only 2x per week on a tourist train. Sydney-Melbourne 2x day. All you’d need to do is build more trains. You wouldn’t need to build hundreds of km’s of expensive high-speed track. We could run some trains Melbourne through Albury all the way to Canberra while we’re at it.

hmm

Did you read the article?

“The demonstrations have all been peaceful and generally numbers in the range of a few hundred persons. Embassy RSO notes the rallies have featured very little, if any, anti-American sentiment,” the US embassy cable, dated 17 December 2010, reads. “Wikileaks supporters held a recent demonstration in Canberra’s central business district and made no attempt to march to the US Embassy or direct any ire at other American interests.”