In which the pond has a late snack of savvy Savva ...

The pond is constantly distracted - there's ZDNet scribbling ACCC should try explaining NBN speeds to grandma ...

Only a bureaucrat would think 'standard plus evening speed' is an informative label.

Wherever the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) keeps its jar of stupid, it needs to lock it up better. Clearly, the seal on the jar had been broken leading up to the announcement on Monday that the consumer regulator had decided to clarify the puzzling broadband labelling situation in Australia by adding yet another layer of confusing labelling.

There's more at the link, but then the pond was distracted by news of a Goth get-together at Camperdown Park, and Honi Soit suddenly remembering the Valhalla in Glebe ...

Well the pond will be at the park in spirit if not the flesh, but dammit, there's Mathias leading with his best Godwin's Law-breaking East German comparison, and there's the savvy Savva talking of Comrade Bill and doing her valiant best to prop up the copper-clad Malware, so a special late afternoon edition of the pond was required, because attention must be paid ...

It's a desperate job, explaining how the copper-clad multi-nodal Malware is the right man for the job, but someone's got to do it, and the savvy Savva always knows the right way to present press releases from the PM's desk ...

Indeed, indeed. And the government has handled the foreigners in its midst so well.

Is it possible to imagine a more inspiring leader?

There's more Moir here, but it's back to Savva explaining how wonderful Malware is ...and how wicked comrade Bill is ...

Indeed, indeed.

And thanks to the integrity and spine of Malware on such matters as the NBN and SSM, cartoonists have simply been unable to lay a glove on him, so firmly did he break from the legacy of the onion muncher ...

We keed, we keed, and so does Wilcox, who has her own site and shop here ...

And now for that glimmer, for that flicker of hope, for the chance of redemption, yes, the chance for Malware to do a Little Johnny ...

Oh dear, watch out or the Billbot will get you ...

The trouble is, and allowing for the pond's exemplary detestation of comrade Bill, and not just for internal bickering family purposes - his voice sounds like the whine of a planer turning good timber to sawdust - the boogeyman routine and the talk of East Germany and Billbots and all the rest just doesn't cut it ...

Fear tactics are the last refuge of the desperate.

We've seen what Malware managed with the NBN, and that was clearly above his pay grade, because it makes the pond yearn to head off to the park with the Goths or stay in the dark in a movie marathon at the Valhalla ...

He is a spineless, useless flop ...a captive of the hard right who never had the internal wherewithal to make a break from key onion muncher policies ... in short, he's a ...

To think otherwise would involve existential questions about reality, truth and the NBN ...

In a jargon-laden industry where most consumers would struggle with the concept of G.Fast or DOCSIS 3.1, the ACCC is simply making a bad environment even worse.

Put it another way ...

Put it another way: 

I G. Fast and therefore I connect, but at what speed, who knows. The copper will provide ... in a multi-nodal way ... thanks be unto the Fizza ...