"Curses!
Foiled Again!"
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
"Curses!
Foiled Again!"
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
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"to educate myself in internet common knowledge, for the purposes of cryptoanarchist / cryptocommunist training,..." Wonderful...
Look up fidonet.
A volunteer chat/news network that moved data pre-internet by deliberately misusing phone company LATA ( local toll-free telephone call areas ) boundaries to move data around the world during the witching hour ( 0200-0300 local ).
A fidonet node on the edge of a LATA would use a local call to toss packets to a node just down the block, but in the next LATA over. That node would spread the packets to all of the BBSs in it's LATA, and a node on the opposite edge of the LATA would toss the packets into the next LATA.
Etc, etc, etc, until the packets went around the planet ( with some help from volunteers using C-Band satellite dishes to toss data to the next continent over ).
We have the tools needed to just ignore DARPA's internet completely, if needed.
People don't care how their WWW packets get to them, as long as they do. They can adapt to a 24 hour refresh time.
I started out in the mid-80s on a 1200baud modem calling local message boards before CompuServe opened. The public Internet wasn't even a dream then.
I'm sure it would be possible to start those services up again if the Internet goes down...
Hhmmmm I think it would almost be easier to take gather up our sporting goods, go to the various party head quarters and have super serious conversation with those who or are even assoiciated with those, who even think about shutting down or censoring the Internet.
Muslim Brotherhood correspondence with BHO, from Thewon's site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/kristinkooiman/gG5FrL