Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: felix Newsgroups: aus.tv,aus.computers,aus.politics Subject: Re: our brilliant education system Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:53:17 +1100 Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: <5685ebff$0$2856$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <568701d1$0$1519$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <56878f77$0$1511$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <568b2120$0$1520$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oDtjMpLf/eXvDUZiieqyCwOeL187Bw5xdXpyXkfXMElCZlhtmu Cancel-Lock: sha1:MXEJvNrQTgKVhfSZZZpLVi0CcMM= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: <568b2120$0$1520$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com aus.tv:122577 aus.computers:49883 aus.politics:560827 On 05-January-2016 12:49 PM, Clocky wrote: > On 2/01/2016 4:50 PM, Clocky wrote: >> On 2/01/2016 3:47 PM, Je�us wrote: >>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 17:45:33 +1100, Trevor wrote: >>> >>>> On 2/01/2016 3:51 PM, Je?us wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:40:06 +1100, Trevor wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 2/01/2016 9:46 AM, Clocky wrote: >>>>>>> Reminds me of the time I went to Dick Smith to buy some stuff >>>>>>> including >>>>>>> components (yeah, that long ago) and the sales pleb put through the >>>>>>> regular stuff and then started looking in the catalogue before >>>>>>> declaring >>>>>>> that "I can't be arsed looking them up, you can have them". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. He had given away $20-$30 >>>>>>> worth >>>>>>> of P section stuff. >>>>>> >>>>>> Yep, idiot sales staff was probably the reason they gave up on >>>>>> components, they would never hire sales people who actually knew >>>>>> what >>>>>> they were. >>>>> >>>>> Up until the late 80's, at least a couple of the staff in each store >>>>> knew their stuff, >>>> >>>> Not in any of the ones near me. Guess you were lucky. >>> >>> Oh. I must have been, I guess :) Most of those years I was in Darwin, >>> so that store is my reference point. >>> >> >> I did a brief stint at DSE when they were still selling components. With >> my background in electronics that was my speciality and I amassed a >> following of hobbyists as I was the only one there who had any idea (let >> alone interest) relating to the P section stuff. >> >>>>> and most of those also had their amateur ticket as >>>>> well. It's hard to believe how different DSE is now. >>>> >>>> Hard to believe they are still in business. >>> >>> Agreed. I have no idea what they're aiming for, as there's plenty of >>> competitors who do it much, much much better. >>> >> >> Yep, DSE are a completely pointless franchise these days. >> > > Heh, might as well tack it on here since it was a point of discussion. > DSE has just been placed in voluntary administration... well, when you > can't turn a profit over Christmas you know you're well and truly fucked. > > So long DSE and thanks for the memories. > > > Once tricky Dicky sold it there's was no longer anything special or unique about it, and it became just another retail store -- "As long as there is this book [Koran] there will be no peace in the world" -William Gladstone, four times PM of Great Britain http://www.siotw.org/