[60784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Aug 15 19:18:35 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030815222753.GB85987@hawk.aitken.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:52:49PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > Rubbish.
> >
> > If in order to make it viable such energy needs to be subsidized then it is
> > not "affordable".
>
> That's a rather amusing position for someone in the IP world to take.
> I seem to recall DARPA subsidizing research into packet-switched
> computer networks, which (I'm told) gave rise to this "Internet" thing
> I keep hearing about.
Actually there is a major difference -
in one case you have fundamental R&D that results in "Internet"
in the other case you have a bunch of crybabies that cannot make in the
competitive energy market so they scream that the government should
subsidize their more costly energy.
Alex
