On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 07:46:24AM -0500, Alex Libman wrote: > SJP Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Since the IP suite was born out of the Defense Advanced Research > > Projects Agency, does this mean you will be refraining from using the > > Internet also? Please? Please gain some perspective. > > I've addressed this in my previous post, paraphrasing The Art of War - > "it is strategically beneficial to eat your enemy's lunch, just as long > as it isn't poisoned". (Again, disclaimer: I call government force the > enemy, not anyone here.) Propaganda can be a part of the poison. If > the Internet had been called GovNet, then I would have had similar > objections to that name as well.
So lets get the facts straight. DARPA (a.k.a. the man, the government or the military) funded Berkeley (a.k.a. the liberal rope smoking hippies) to get TCP/IP implemented. So in other words the man paid the hippies to create a military network. The horror, you better stop using the intertubes! they are liberal tubes that oppress people. > The "only Mommy Government can make the Internet work" bull has been > debunked many times on many appropriate forums, and this isn't the place > for this discussion. The government actually delayed many > telecommunications technologies in the middle of the 20th century by > trying to use regulation to solve all problems (ex. the FCC). It then > stole massive amounts of money from the private sector, and used that > money to jump in front of the technological parade and take all the > credit. Government-imposed centralization is the current Internet's > biggest weakness, which is why we libertarians are now working on > something better. Like skynet? Pretty sure you don't speak for "the libertarians". Not even sure for what personality in your head you speak for. > Gaining some perspective is precisely what the Berkeley worshipers need > to do. Think about what fraction of today's BSD actually came about as > the result of Berkeley, and think about the benefits and drawbacks of > clinging to that name for all eternity. A lot of advances in early > rocketry and aeronautics were make in socialist (Nazi) Germany and then > in socialist (Soviet) Russia - does that mean we have to Heil Hitler or > Khrushchev every time we look at the stars?! Individual scientists and > engineers, and not coercive institutions, should get proper credit for > their accomplishments. No, we say heil NASA instead. In fact you should be doubly impressed that a bunch of stoners (your words) were able to create something useful. > In conclusion to what hopefully will be my last post on this issue, I'd > just like to say that I'm a proud user of Theo's OS, and that I love > most things about it, but I cannot love something without also being its > harshest critic. If someone has to be the bad guy for bringing this up, > it might as well be me, so no one else will have to. It is my hope that > at least someone here will be able to take this criticism > constructively. As for the rest of you: shut up and code. ;-) In conclusion, you are certifiably insane and are incapable of digesting reality and facts. You project some sort of alternate reality with facts that suit your belief system. Let me be the first to tell you that no one gives a rats ass about your opinion or mental illness.
