FCC and the internet

[Michael Haney]

Sorry for the direct email Amedee, forgot to edit the To: address.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Wed, October 21, 2009 19:13, Michael wrote:
>> Harold Sawyer wrote:
>>> Pardon my American distrust of government, but there is little that
>>> the US Government has gotten involved with that has not ended badly,
>>> at least lately.
>> <snipped>
>>
>> And now US citizens actually want its government to get involved in
>> health care.  Think about the last time you had to stand in the line at
>> the DMV.  The post office.  /Any/ government run office.  Yeah,
>> government run health care - NOT!
>
> As far as I am concerned, the US of A don't really exist, they were
> invented by Hollywood.
>
> I think it would also benefit the planet if the USA had their own
> internet. Remember, AOL came from USA, and so did MS. They may have
> invented the internet (DARPAnet) but we (Europeans) invented computers
> (Konrad Zuse, Germany), programming (Ada Lovelace, UK), the World Wide Web
> (Robert Cailliau, Belgium + Tim Berners-Lee, UK) and of course Linux
> (Linus Torvalds, Finland)!
>
>
> And now a really big fat smiley: ;-)
>

Well, you can thank the Cold War for the creation of the Internet.
DARPAnet was originally a communications network for the Strategic Air
Command which had built-in redundancy so if one part was destroyed in
a nuclear attack the other sections could pick up the slack.

As for government run health care.  Its pretty much a done deal now.
The Public Option was rebranded Medicare Part E, that's E for
Everyone.  Now even many in the GOP (aka the Party of No) are starting
to back it.  I also like the fact that anti-trust exemption for the
insurance companies is being taken away.  Its a shame that the
greatest nation on Earth has to endure one of the shittiest health
care systems in existence.  Cubans have a better health care system
than we do in the US, now that is SAD.  Thousands of people a year die
in the US because they either don't have medical insurance or are
denied coverage for one stupid reason or another.  You cannot treat
people's lives like the Stock Market, its immoral and criminal.
Anyone who supports the status quo supports corporate sponsored
murder, period.

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