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An Anonymous Coward writes "Forget Tito. Forget Shuttleworth. Private space travel is now a reality, now that eBay is accepting bids for travel to the International Space Station. I consider this a milestone for space travel, now that the average citizen-next-door can bid for a ticket as easily as buying, er, crap on eBay." Actually it appears that this is just the pre-flight stuff required prior to a trip - Note: Soyuz tickets sold separately, may involve a small added expense, if you get my drift. The real milestone is when tickets are listed on Travelocity. JFK->ISS, non-stop, no smoking, snack only.

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There is a solution...

[Lumpy]

OK all you "geeks in power"... time to get the senat's and everyone elses attention.

Shut down the fricking internet backbone., shut down the root dns servers, and the backbone routers. I know you guys can easily do it, hell the largest amount of you touch the physical devices every day. Unplug the damned things at work, command the cisco routers to shutdown, or simply unplug the Fiber connections.

WE can effectively do two things at once....

1 - teach employers world wide that we can unionize.
2 - teach the governments that they really aren't in power.

but what will this do? Knowing the track record of the US government and what that scumbag Regan did to the Air traffic controllers....

Oh well, we dont have the balls to do it anyways..
and they know that.

Re:There is a solution...

[BedivereW]

I hesitate to respond to such an off topic remark but here we go.

First our government:

Believe it or not they usually have the best interests of the country in mind no matter what transgression we are talking about here. Are there going to be mistakes? YES, we are talking about human beings there are always going to be mistakes. And let he who has never made a mistake or acted with conflicting goals cast the first stone.

Anyone reading this that believes that they can make better decisions, I am glad run for office we need more geeks on The Hill.

Our Employers:

As hard as it is to admit some times we do live in a capitalist society. If you are unhappy with your job or pay it is your responsibility to look for something better. But if there are CCNAs out there that are making less then $60,000/year you need to be looking any way. If you are making that much, guess what you are already making more then %87 of Americans get over it.

Well I know it is always our desire to have our cake and eat it to but please while you are ranting and raving remember you are:

• Worth whatever you are dedicated enough to fight for.
• Going to have to give up something to the government to avoid chaos.
• Not the lease fortunate person on the planet.
• Responsible to your employers and your employer's customers.
• Not the only one that agrees with you but you don't have to shove it down our throats.
  

My $0.02,
Robert W.

i know this has nothing to do with ebay ...

[dcstimm]

But it does have to do with space and money... Did any one see Nsync in Starwars Episode 2? I remember when people said that they would be in the movie and would get blown up? Any Ideas?