Internet scam, venting

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Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Internet scam gets personal. So goes the Herald header to Darin Welsh’s story about the hijacking of his late Dad’s unused email address. Throsby’s IT consultant is anything but surprised. He says the Internet is the most dangerous place on Earth, and makes Civic Park (or Empire Park) at 2am seem like a pre-school playground. The drunken cowardly swine who might kick your face in are mere amateurs compared to those you unwittingly  and almost daily rub shoulders with on the Internet. And we innocents are but an Enter-key away from the most intelligent yet hideously amoral sociopaths on the planet. Combined. And they are relentlessly targeting you, personally. Owning a computer connected to the Internet is your personal introduction to their playpen where you are the fluffy toy.

Mr Baumann vents. A headline I so often want to use when Craig Baumann, Member for Port Stephens, gets his teeth into the NSW gummint. This time he’s letting off steam on, well, everything that didn’t happen, and one that half did. Describing 500 days of dithering, he lists Raymond Terrace police station, Nelson Bay ambulance station upgrade, F3 to Raymond Terrace highway extension, the HealthOne clinic, and public housing at Mayfield and the bay as things that didn’t happen. And, as we all love pointing out, the gummint did replace a perfectly serviceable and paid-for two lane bridge with .. a $47 million two lane bridge feeding the 4-lane Stockton bridge. Bravo!

I certainly won’t be holding my breath for any great developments in the next 500 days,” said Craig.

A pity. We love seeing him turn purple in the face, and vent again :0)

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