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If This Had Been An Actual Emergency
saridder writes "In an increasing attempt to regulate the Internet like the current PSTN, the US Government has asked the IETF to come up with a system to prioritize government and emergency worker traffic in the event of another disaster, much like the GETS system already in place for the PSTN. It's interesting to follow, because it's only an RFC, so you don't have to follow it. I probably won't be prioritizing government traffic on any of my routers." The story has a link to the ieprep working group if you want to get involved or comment. Perhaps this is a better way than GOVNET.
A big deal is being made these days about how funding for terrorists comes largely from the profits of illegal drug sales in the U.S. That sounds pretty credible; opium is supposed to be the biggest export for Afghanistan.
Prohibition in the 1920s taught us the reason those profits are so large: because we've kept the drugs illegal. The "War on Drugs" created an environment in which drug dealers could get rich, and likewise their suppliers. Competition was outlawed so there was no free-market rein on prices.
In some sense, the War-on-Drugs crowd financed the Sept. 11th attacks. Of course, back then the Afghanis were fighting the Soviets, so they were our good buddies anyway.
I hadn't heard much in the media connecting the "War on Drugs" to the "War on Terrorism" but when I think about it, the connection seems pretty tight.
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getting to your buddies to play PS2
And when my buddies come over we network our PCs & play Age of Kings, thank you very much. Pbbbt.
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