[LINK] Fwd: RE: Cut and Run - the origin

[Chirgwin, Richard]

<OT> I wondered last week why Latham didn't remind the government that
"half-pregnant" was plagiarised from media commentary, but didn't get around
to e-mailing his office! Also, the "one in three trillion" probability the
gummint was throwing around re Latham's form of words didn't sound
original...</OT>

Since it's the fundamental question, why not canvass the CAN? The customer
access network is the pain point in telecommunications ... running fibre is
too slow and too expensive, ADSL's lifespan while not yet over is limited,
powerline's only business case is the vendors trying to recover their R&D
investment, wireless has problems all its own ... what's the answer?

RC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Whitaker [mailto:jwhit at melbpc.org.au] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] Fwd: RE: Cut and Run - the origin
> 
> 
> Linkers,
> 
> I put out a question to a group about the origin of the 
> phrase "cut and 
> run".  The answer I got was interesting [it has a nautical 
> origin about a 
> way to ready sails for a quick get away], so I forwarded to 
> the Opposition 
> leader as a counter the next time one of the government 
> ministers started 
> on their tirades about pulling out the troops before 
> Christmas.  Here's the 
> response I received this morning, just one day later:
> 
> 
> >Thank you very much for taking the trouble to write to Mark Latham,
> >Federal Labor Leader. He is receiving so many emails that he cannot
> >reply to them all personally, so he has asked me to collate the views
> >and issues raised in emails and forward them to him for his 
> information
> >and consideration.
> 
> So, any issues we want collated and raised before the election?
> 
> Jan
> 
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