April 27, 2011

1Malaysia Email.




Those signing up for the controversional 1Malaysia email service will have to buy a USB biometric device sold by Tricubes Bhd or go to any National Registration Department (NRD) office to get their account activated , the company said today.

Khairun Zainal said earlier that those who wish to send emails to myemail.my accounts will have to pay a maximum of 50 sen an email, adding that Tricubes aims to sign up 5.4 million users by year-end. 

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The rakyat savagely rebuke this idea since it has been announced couple of days ago, and as one of the far far away rakyat, I must admit that I too, strongly am opposing this notion. The collective verbal abuse by the  avid rakyat however is not something trivial, let alone dismissible and mobilization of this strong opposition by the rakyat by far has shown us 50 000 people on Facebook robustly disagreed with the proposal within shortest period of time and for every single written piece administering this issue is brutally condemned. Even herettofore, this action; the rakyat being critically vocal by saying 'No, thanks' to one of the ETP (Economic Transformation Programme) policies is incessant and elevating. The chastisement is not unfounded for there are few vital contents that serve as the cause of the rakyat's reasoning.

For in order to activate our accounts, there are two ways of doing as such and one, as clearly being said by the CEO of Tricubes Bhd, Khairun Zainal Mokhtar, is by purchasing USB sold by the company itself or by the mean of going to any of NRD office (as aforementioned above). As to send a government-related email to any myemail accounts, Tricubes imposed a maximum of 50 cents fee, yet for normal mail, free of charge. For God's sake, as I am one of the skeptics myself, I must honestly let the cat out of the bag in a blatant way, yet restrained, and this would not serve merely as a prattle.

Convenience, to a consumer is essential. I used the term 'consumer' here because we are the potential buyers of this product. Why is that so? Because first, we are not been obliged to sign up for one; that is to say we would only get one if only we are willing to get it and hence, becoming a subject to that 50 cents fee for every email sent to myemail account. The shortcomings of this notion are apparent enough for us to see. Who, in their right minds, would ever want to go through the hassle of just activating the account, where we, on the other hand have another choice that serve best as our alternative route - Gmail/ Yahoo/ Hotmail bric-a-brac is free of charge, without no USB cable consumption to activate it, nor we do have to move our asses around NRD office to do as such: 100% convenience, 0% fee charged upon the users.

Khairun Zainal told the media that as our 'post office', they would deliver us what we want, nay, having to digitalize all of our bills/notices/whatnots, justify the 50 cents fee. In addition, for more secure system, more would be charged. Pretty much a good (however dubious) way to attain optimum profit  for these money suckers, I dare say. Surcharge here and there, and all left for us are only tiny bowls we held on our hands to go around the city begging mercy from others, and fit enough 'I haven't eat for three days, please help me' cardboards dangling around our necks. The dross of the world, superfluous, we all would become henceforward.

Another factor that has aroused this poignant rebuttal from the rakyat is why Tricubes? Tricubes, as a matter of fact, is a loss-making company, nearing of being delisted by Bursa, yet is trusted dearly by our Government, whom act as a facilitator for this another economy-booster mega-project. Credibility and reliability, I believe, are indispensable virtues that must be probed thoroughly before a project is sanctioned. The government declared that out of a long list proposals by many companies, Tricubes managed to fit all of the qualifications required, hence the result of Tricubes getting the concession. Furthermore, Najib's brother being one of the biggest shareholders in Tricubes Bhd unavoidably stirred things up dramatically causing the flak to be more base, more severe, and more of a question of, would this be another of government's decoy to down the rakyat's money? The ever-ballooning of their (the government and its crony) own pockets rather than intensifying their interest on rakyat's welfare, would serve as the very core reason of the existence of this unceasing susurration that is rampant among the society.

Taken from here;

... the value of Internet as a crucial propaganda tool for guiding correct public opinion, "unifying thinking" and countering "hegemony of Western media." As long as our country's Internet is linked to the global Internet, there will be channels and means for all all sorts of harmful foreign information to appear on our domestic Internet. As long as our Internet is open to the public, there will be channels and means for netizens to express all sorts of speech on the Internet.  


Just tiny bits of the bigger fraction on how Internet can incite an indelible detrimental to the government and as we all are wont to, when once the government realizes it is goaded to a dangerous, risky pitch black state, they countermeasure by incriminating someone else for their stead. A very debase way indeed, alas, frequently practiced.

However, I could not possibly ruled out any pros that are borne with this new policy. If there are some handful savvy reasons for the government to gorge us with, keenly educating us that this measure is taken for a benevolent cause, and securing all of the obscurities, the rakyat would be able to discern this with utmost propriety rather than just being some moronic ignoramus. As a friend of mine told me that why not we agree with this policy since PEMANDU had obviously put a cost-and-benefit analysis in motion before it is accepted by the government and it is proven to be a profitable investment for a long term: bluntly put I believe she is trying to say trust PEMANDU's judgement, yet I must say this-

As nary human being can digress from erroneous judgement, corruption is everywhere like a disease, and it is undeniably, highly agreeable very contemptuous. Religion and one's conscience are not subjects that could be leisurely compromised for a trade of abundant wealth. The government must always remember this (I dearly hope in so);

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln

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