Bill Lovell a �crit:
> Some relevant questions arise, however, and without taking
> any positions on them, I'll ask, anyway:
>
> 1) One complaint is that NSI has been getting beaucoup bucks
> on its contract, but the USG (i.e., us taxpayers) got nuthin. So
> isn't $62 mill in university research into improving the internet
> something?
>
> 2) What else you gonna do with that $62 mill? Pay it back?
> Give it to ICANN? (Ooo -- I'm getting ill.) Give it to all the ISP
> and other varieties of entrepreneur that populate these pages?
> Well, of course. (heh.)
Granted. But the precedent is terrifying. Retroactive taxation? God
spare us all.
