Cost of living in a car...

When I was last across this, about ten years ago (!), Australian companies connecting to the USA would be charged per megabyte downloaded, yet any content that anyone in the USA used from Australia was not paid for.

I don't know if this is still the case, but it changes the story a bit when one side has to pay and the other does not.

I think the USA has a much higher population and higher population density. A lot of the services we use on the Internet are based there, so it stands to reason that economies of scale, and having the services local means it is cheaper.

We have some large capacity cables from Australia to the US. Do you think the US paid to connect to us? I don't think so. I think the people that paid and built those cables probably want a return on their investment.

Instead of living out of bins theiving your way across Australia and washing in Macdonalds, why not open a "peoples supermarket" - you have some experience?

Why download it when you can stream it online??

we see plenty of leeches coming through our town just like you dextrous. They park on our verge using our limited bandwidth, sneak into the caravan park to get a free shower and leave toilet paper and rubbish in all the carparks. But by your logic I can go smash their headlights in cos there piece of crap van is worth SFA But by all means take as much rubbish from bins as you please.
ps there are many traveling around enjoying what Australia has to offer on a tight budget with much higher morals than you but they learn to forgo what they can't afford

Not f*cked in the head... just finding out where along the thieving scale from 'petty theft' to 'gross moral outrage' you're rationalisations would draw the line. It's all theft mate, it just seems to me you're quite happy to f*ck people over, so long as you're not likely to get caught... kind of in that 'sneaky opportunistic weasel' category of bastardry.

I too am a happy kind of guy... until someone starts stealing my **!



Pierre, my 2c (for what its worth)

Rather than supporting the extremes of the 'drop everything and go/stay and be miserable' mindset your mate's in, maybe get out with him for that week you can and get him to hire a camper for the week - let him test the waters of his plan with some support from you/mates. He can blow out the cobwebs, have a cry, get drunk etc without commiting to a full cut and run exercise and has the safety net of some mates to talk stuff out.
It may fuel the fire to drop out or it may just satisfy his urge to escape - either way he'd be doing with his eyes open and at least you'd feel you did something constructive to help him out...

it was probably dextrous
pierrec the way I look at it why not go walkabout when he is ready he can always step back into his life if thats what he wants or he may find something better.

wow . a lot of stuff in there.As I said I took off in a Kombi , didn't steal or live out of "dumpsters" sic we call them garbage bins where I come from, ) think dumpster is from Us of A)!!!!!!!!!! No freebies that weren't readily available to everyone else, eg free campsites, no thieving of internet. The deal is if you want to live the free life, go for it, and you don't have to take anything that belongs to someone else. the whole philosophy is to live free and easy, and live longer in a stress free environment !!!!!!!!!!!!!and do what you want to do when you want to do it,

Again again again:

if you ask "have you enough money?" - gee I don't know.

"have you thought of getting in touch with rels, etc." - gee didn't think of that.
"what about lawyers and payments?" - they won't find me.
"what if you fall ill or wanna talk to someone" - I don't care.
"are you gonna have internet so we can reach you" - wow, didn't think of that.

Well, that's someone who's not thinking well, and needs to sit still for a while, think things out or talk things through (or is it the other way around?).

He's not as well planned as the dumpster boy, for instance - no offense.
But he was more talkable couple days ago. Gotta keep him busy, but not go fandango yet.

Once someone is clear on those very simple questions above, then sure, go for it. (except for the stealing part).

PS: and the argument "you weren't the first, you won't be the last" don't seem to help somehow...

I remember Terminator 2, word for word, frame by frame.. It's been copied to the biological computer that is my brain. Is this stealing?

What's the difference between copying data to your head and copying data to a chip..

And what the fark is a DVD?

He still has his whole life, the universe, everything ahead of him .

Remember the face on the guy when the The Termintor asks him for his cloths, boots, and motorcycle?

If you can remember that, then you have a copy of that scene in your head..

Another example would be a song..

I've copied Bohemian Rhapsody, and I can prove it 'cause I can reproduce it whenever I want. Anybody else got a copy?

MAMMA-JUSTKILLEDAMAAAANN!!!

Been there done that, (she got the house), I wasn't in a good place then but a few years down the track I couldn't be happier.

I didn't exactly pull up stumps and hit the road, but I certainly changed the way I think about work/lifestyle balance.

The way I see it old mate could retreat into his cave and sulk or head off into the great unknown, I'm damn sure I know what I would encourage him to do.

I was able to rearrange my work/life etc to give me enough freedom to clear my head and re focus but if he feels he needs to get out of town then I can't see a problem with that.

In the words of Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Hope this thread slides off down the page soon or I am going to resign and drive off into the sunset.

I am actually planning to have at least 6 months off soon and hit the road to nowhere and end up somewhere for a while.