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Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3?
slashmicah asks: "Internet partitioning and Tier 1 ISPs are something most people don't know much about (myself included). Today, however, some Slashdot readers might have run into some issues involving these two topics. Cogent Communications and Level 3, both Tier 1 ISPs, are apparently having some 'undisclosed' disagreements, causing an Internet partition by turning-off or deactivating their peering point. Cogent Co. has released a statement explaining their side of the problem, however they have no mention of when the problem will be fixed, or when they will sort it out. This partitioning is a problem because any [single-homed] computers that are connected through Cogent Co, can not connect to [single-homed] computers connected through Level 3. Having spent all day sorting out this problem, I ask Slashdot: Isn't there a better way that the issue of peering can be handled/regulated? If not, does the future hold a scenario in which the Internet is split into several separate networks, only to be connected at the whims of large corporations?"
..but I notice I am unable to access Drudge today, first time I remember his site being down.
Yeah, flamebait away. rate me a troll, whatever. I'm tired of hearing this false argument, claiming that the Palestinians are oppressed. They aren't oppressed by anyone, they've made the choice to live the way they do by embracing terrorism at all levels of society. They were even offered 97% of the land they claim for a state and they refused, blanket style, with no attempt to offer a counter.
Time and time again, Israel has attempted to make peace with these people to no end.
You whine about Palestine oppression, but in reality, for most of the Palestinians and other arabs in the region, the presence of Israel makes life better. None of the other countries in the region have viable, non-oil econonies, except maybe Egypt. Israel does. This could be the basis for lifting these people out of poverty and into the first world, but instead, they'd rather blow up children and rocket homes. The difference between Israel and the Palestinians is that Israel retaliates, and the Palestinians initiate. If the Palestinians would stop initiating they could join society and improve their lives.
There will be peace there when the Palestinians desire it, not before. They don't desire it right now and neither do the rest of the arabs because it gives the ruling class of those populations something to misplace their peoples' anger onto, and keeps it away from the injustice they foist upon their own people.
And the UN, don't even go there. It is perhaps the most anti-semitic governmental organization on the planet. Perhaps you should do some research, don't just take your local college's anti-jew hate group or some terrorist propoganda web site's word for it.
Democrats and Republicans are like AIDS and Cancer, I want neither!
Doesn't Israel get massive subsidies from the US, in money and in arms, year after year?
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Yes, it has, and just how is your point related to the issue of Palestinian and arab initiation and continued pursuit of violence?
The fact is that Israel is not the aggressor in this argument, Palestine and it's neighbors are.
While the rabbid left wing of the democratic party is doing it's level best to paint Israel as an apartheid nation, the reality is otherwise.
Hitler would be proud of groups like SUSTAIN, and the Palestinian Right to Return. These groups use tactics right from Goering's play book all the while the Palestinian/Arab world has said outright that it's goal is to kill all the Jews in the world.
Democrats and Republicans are like AIDS and Cancer, I want neither!