Comments on: Episode 43! Full Moon! Cnuts and NBN questions please!

By: Stilgherrian · Yes, Episode 44 is tonight!

Stilgherrian · Yes, Episode 44 is tonight! — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:44:30 +0000

[...] program’s “Cnut of the Week” finalists were: 4th Miranda Devine (18%); equal 2nd Jane Schulze and Associated Press, and The Cuffs Guy (24% each); 1st The Liberal Party Generally [...]

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:30:45 +0000

Thank you, everyone. Nominations have now closed. Stilgherrian Live starts in one hour.

By: totalomnivore

totalomnivore — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:02:37 +0000

Gotta be Malcom Turdbull I’d say

By: Sean Carmody

Sean Carmody — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:42:35 +0000

An offshore one, but Henry Morton for this Cnut-ish anti-google, live-in-the-past rant: http://bit.ly/ldg6

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:38:19 +0000

Stephen Conroy, again, for telling JJJ that ‘the way to run a trial’ is to not have any criteria for assessing its success or failure until after it’s concluded, and then getting pissy when the interviewer dared to suggest otherwise.

By: Snarky Platypus

Snarky Platypus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:58:15 +0000

Oh dear, I am also going to have to nominate Malcolm Turnbull. Not for saying “no”, but for being unable to provide any decent alternatives when saying “no”.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:31:15 +0000

I also wish to nominate the Liberal Party for their immediate and vehement opposition to the government’s proposed NBN project (as delivered by their leader, Malcolm Turnbull). Infrastructure! It’s so important to a country – transport, power, communications. Yet the Libs seem bent on insisting that it all has to be run by private companies and driven by big profits. I listened to Turnbull yesterday and I understood him to mean that unless we can prove the NBN will be highly profitable as a commercial venture then Australians can learn to live without this technology. I think the party as a whole deserve to be Cnut of the Week!

By: Bryce Roney

Bryce Roney — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:18:48 +0000

Seconded.

By: Penis Conroy

Penis Conroy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:18:40 +0000

I nominate the “I can break these cuffs” guy, for trying to brake those cuffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXvKJKje4o

By: mpesce

mpesce — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:53:01 +0000

I nominate the Federal Liberal Party of Australia for Cnut of the Week. Even the Nats want to get in on the NBN, but the Liberals, led by former ISP-Chairman Malcolm Turnbull? Nope, sorry. Apparently the Libs were against the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge and the Snowy Mountains Hydro scheme, which makes me think they’re actually somewhere to the left of the Greens.

By: dnwallace

dnwallace — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:41:23 +0000

I nominate Associated Press as Cnut of the week for intending to wage war on links:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/06/behind-the-aps-plan-to-become-the-webs-news-cop/

http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/04/07/war-is-coming-–-and-ap-mustnt-be-allowed-to-win/

http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_040609a.html

http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/04/07/the-speech-the-naa-should-hear/

By: Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:05:56 +0000

Either or both of Australia’s “No Boys”: Senator Nick Minchin and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

Minchin barely seems to understand the tide of change, or even how we got into this mess, but appears to be entirely dedicated to standing in its way.

Turnbull allows (and perhaps encourages) his party to adopt this foolish “no hostages” strategy, depriving us of both the direction the majority voted for and thoughtful opposition contribution to it.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:05:48 +0000

Nick Minchin – A big infrastructure announcement from the Government required a big, clear response from the Opposition.

Minchin looked and sounded like a modern day Luddite and totally wasted any opportunity to provide a clear, winnable argument.

By: DaSuthNa

DaSuthNa — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:37:41 +0000

Bit of a specific one. So probably won’t get up. But I want to have it on record at least:

I nominate http://www.tams.act.gov.au/ the ACT dept of Territory and Municipal Services for listing only snail-mail and a fax number on their forms.

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:21:49 +0000

And I nominate Miranda Devine of the SMH for her breathless scaremongering over teh Internet Addictionz from last weekend’s edition. Truly special journalism – http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/myspace-cadets-sliding-into-addiction-20090403-9reb.html?page=-1