PCNAA [scary]

[The-Spec]

This mourning on cspan the neocons just gave tax breaks and incentives to companys that offshore production, reinforced their earlier denial of extending unemployment, and are getting rid of certin tax on oil companys as we speak.

Meanwhile you dipshits are worried about flushing your turds through the interweb tubes.

[nihil]

Turning off the Internet? That's akin to Al Gore developing biological weapons.

But I thought that Al already had man-boobs?

Meanwhile you dipshits are worried about flushing your turds through the interweb tubes.

You really are that naiive?

The concern is that this "dipshit" politician wants to hand authority to some faceless bureaucrat in the NSA.

Like a nuclear strike, this can only come from the President, or through the Presidential line of command. These people are:

1. Elected.
2. Answerable to the people.

That kinda cramps their style.

They can't bully some jobsworth, civil servant pleb into doing what they want.............they have to stand up and be counted. Isn't one Lt. Col. Oliver North enough for you?

And there was I thinking that the whole purpose of the US Constitution was to protect it's people from it's government?????????????



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ARPNET was designed to communicate in the event of Nuclear or catastrophic natural destruction.

Not nuclear mate............back then they had 20, 50 and 100 megaton devices..............the EMP would have totally wiped out the Arpanet, and most other electronic devices of the day

[dinowuff]

Not nuclear mate............back then they had 20, 50 and 100 megaton devices..............the EMP would have totally wiped out the Arpanet, and most other electronic devices of the day

That was the point. Back then phone communication needed a dedicated circuit from start to end. Blow up Detroit and not only will none of the phones in Detroit work, but no one in Chicago can Call new York.

ARPNET introduced switched packets that could be routed. So blow up Detroit and folks in Chicago could still talk to New York, but via Toronto.

[The-Spec]

You really are that naiive?

Actually im ten times more intelligent than any number of you people.

Neocons are denying ALL, and by all, I mean EACH AND EVERY SINGLE BILL related to the economy.

By the time its over with people wouldn't afford to pay their service providers for their stupid fu*cking daily fixtures of online brainwash and sensory overload. What I'd like to know is where was the outcry when corporate types deleted my threads and covered everything up with ads here 'eh?

[westin]

Actually im ten times more intellegent than any number of you people.

Well, at least you aren't proud.

[gore]

Actually im ten times more intelligent than any number of you people.

Neocons are denying ALL, and by all, I mean EACH AND EVERY SINGLE BILL related to the economy.

By the time its over with people wouldn't afford to pay their service providers for their stupid fu*cking daily fixtures of online brainwash and sensory overload. What I'd like to know is where was the outcry when corporate types deleted my threads and covered everything up with ads here 'eh?

What threads of yours got deleted? I'm not exactly harsh as a moderator you know.

[nihil]

That was the point. Back then phone communication needed a dedicated circuit from start to end. Blow up Detroit and not only will none of the phones in Detroit work, but no one in Chicago can Call new York.

ARPNET introduced switched packets that could be routed. So blow up Detroit and folks in Chicago could still talk to New York, but via Toronto.

That was not its intention, and, given the number of strategic warheads the Russians could deploy back then, it is unlikely that it would have worked. Sure military bunkers and silos would be mostly OK but everything else would be pretty much trashed.

Although the ARPANET was designed to survive subordinate-network losses, the principal reason was that the switching nodes and network links were unreliable, even without any nuclear attacks. About the resources scarcity that spurred the creation of the ARPANET, Charles Herzfeld, ARPA Director (1965–1967), said:
The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA’s mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators, who should have access to them, were geographically separated from them.

[dinowuff]

Although the ARPANET was designed to survive subordinate-network losses, the principal reason was that the switching nodes and network links were unreliable, even without any nuclear attacks. About the resources scarcity that spurred the creation of the ARPANET, Charles Herzfeld, ARPA Director (1965–1967), said:
The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA’s mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried. Rather, the ARPANET came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators, who should have access to them, were geographically separated from them.


Sure you're right. If it's on Google or Wikipedia it must be true.

I'm working on a project that may very well put me in London right around Christmas. I have friends in Cambridge that I look forward to seeing again.

Curious, Nihil would you like to meet. I do so enjoy a good debate.

[nihil]

I'm working on a project that may very well put me in London right around Christmas. I have friends in Cambridge that I look forward to seeing again.

Curious, Nihil would you like to meet. I do so enjoy a good debate.

(Thinks......would the meet be at Lincoln's Inns Fields?)

I certainly would as it would be very interesting to talk through the way things have developed either side of the pond?

Sure you're right. If it's on Google or Wikipedia it must be true.

Well, I take Google at face value, as it is only a search engine after all?.....I am much more suspicious of Wikipedia, but this was a quote from the guy's memoirs or whatever?

OH! and mine are stashed locally..............you won't get yours out of the US, let alone into here

Cambridge would be far more convenient than London.............and I will have a chance to use my old fart's public transport pass?