(Tunis, Tunisia) Some members of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society wanted to transfer control of Internet traffic from the United States to the United Nations. They failed.
This is good news.
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That would be fun with the Internet being down for weeks because some African warlord forgot to reset the servers.
Posted by: Tyler D. at November 17, 2005 03:17 AM (dd9FX)
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De lions ghost! De lions! Tell us about the lions!
I know - has absolutely nothing to do with the thread topic but ghost will be here soon with his willie pete in his hand and I wanted to greet him early. I have a busy day planned.
Posted by: hondo at November 17, 2005 05:08 AM (Jvmry)
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Hondo: I thought we already beat the prick to the punch?
Posted by: greyrooster at November 17, 2005 05:24 AM (ZaAd/)
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Let me see. We invent the computers. We cause the internet. We get it started. And someone else wants to control it. Nothing ever changes.
Posted by: greyrooster at November 17, 2005 05:28 AM (ZaAd/)
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If anyone's interested - ghost's man-behind-curtain heroic source of information and beliefs is a man named Kurt Nimmo based out of New Mexico.
uruknet is part of the radical fringe new-age western socialist/communist movement. net itself is heavily associated with remnants of Saddam's Baathist regime in exile (in Europe no less).
Kurt is a trip. He & they are all over the map with conspiracies and global issues. Take a peak - its kinda funny.
Oh - and they loathe libs too. It's really qiute funny.
Posted by: hondo at November 17, 2005 05:43 AM (Jvmry)
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Today the Greyrooster and snooter will go to a certain city in La. and bitch slap the same raghead at the same convenience store as last year. We have been getting the same reports about him as last year.
Only reason we allow the worm to stay is that it's funny to watch his store. He has big signs on his gas pumps that say pay first. If you are white or asian you can pull up and the pump will be turned on. If you are black you must go inside and pay first. Racist? Or is he reacting to something in the past? Or is reacting to reality (driveoffs)? Or is this a fair muslim????? Since whites and asians have never left without paying why should they be punished for what members of another race do?
Maybe we won't bitch slap him today. Just a good talking to.
Posted by: greyrooster at November 17, 2005 05:52 AM (ZaAd/)
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Oh happy day!
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111605N.shtml
Posted by: Keep Smiling at November 17, 2005 06:22 AM (CX9+v)
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Thank goodness. The UN couldn't even oversee a few billion dollars meant to care for children and families in Iraq. Why would we give them control of half a trillion websites?
Posted by: Oyster at November 17, 2005 06:30 AM (YudAC)
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Not really 'traffic' but the root name servers.
Posted by: actus at November 17, 2005 07:58 AM (Zi15r)
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“Further internationalisation of internet governance, and enhanced intergovernmental cooperation to this end”
aka chaos of the highest order which the United States will be expected to fix at some point in the future.
Posted by: Graeme at November 17, 2005 08:14 AM (1t7Hl)
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Graeme: yeah. And it'll be all our fault for not divining the future.
Posted by: Oyster at November 17, 2005 08:25 AM (YudAC)
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What actual use does the domain-name-control-thingamagic have? Stuff like "No, it can't be ihatej0000s.se unless it's a company in Sweden. We suggest ihatej0000s.com"?
Posted by: A Finn at November 17, 2005 10:37 AM (lGolT)
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Thankfully, we get to avoid the Internet For Food scandal that was sure to follow.
Posted by: William Teach at November 17, 2005 10:44 AM (AkiXU)
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Yes, yes, internet good, UN bad, but
what about the use of white phosphorous in Falluja!?!?!?
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 17, 2005 11:03 AM (0yYS2)
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Wow. I've been reading Kurt Nimmo's excretions. Just, wow.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 17, 2005 12:37 PM (0yYS2)
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You're right, IM. Nimmo's a maroon. Hey, greg, IM found a new hero for you.
Posted by: Oyster at November 17, 2005 01:25 PM (YudAC)
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We are the U.N. We are N.A.T.O. Well, at least we fund more than two thirds of it. If they try to take it than we should cut off U.N. funding. The U.N. will die the next day. If that is too much then give them the internet. It's old anyway. We will switch to IPv6. We will prevail, meanwhile the rest of the world doesn't have the work ethic to manage the damn thing. Either way we win.
Posted by: lonelysoul at November 17, 2005 06:45 PM (0ATFl)
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Lonely, you fail to take into account the fact that they don't need to manage it, they can hire American educated IT professionals like construction foremen hire day laborers on the streets of LA. All modern dictatorships depend upon the free world for the tools and skills they need to survive.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 18, 2005 10:34 AM (0yYS2)
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Raghead at the so called conveinence store, swears to Allah that he never said anything bad about Americans, Christians, Jews or Shites. "Everyone lies about me. I am good man, I works hard. I never short change people".
Next week we will return and talk to him again. This time we will hide a tape recorder in the chips next to the register and see what he says after we leave. Works every time. Play back is a riot. Sort of like letting the air out of a ballon.
Posted by: greyrooster at November 18, 2005 08:12 PM (ZaAd/)
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