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'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky
Ian Lamont writes "Shiva Ayyadurai, who famously claims to have invented email as a teenager in the 1970s, is back. A statement attributed to Noam Chomsky offers support for Ayyadurai's claim while attacking 'industry insiders' for stating otherwise. The statement reads: 'Given the term email was not used prior to 1978, and there was no intention to emulate "...a full-scale, inter-organizational mail system," as late as December 1977, there is no controversy here, except the one created by industry insiders, who have a vested interest to protect a false branding that BBN is the "inventor of email," which the facts obliterate.'"
Perhaps this FAQ (as in frequently asked questions, or ones that should be asked) may help, or perhaps not....
(It pertains to "network neutrality" ...)
Global FAQ
What was the number one ranked communications corporation in 1950?
What is the number one ranked communications corporation in 2012?
Who actually owns AT&T?
Who invites Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) to those international banker forums known as "Bilderberg forums" (as in divide and conquer)?
Who lobbied fervently for the passage of NAFTA?
Who lobbied for China's entrance into the WTO?
Who established banking operations in Beijing and Moscow in 1973, immediately after Nixon's trip there?
What was the name of the senator from West Virginia who was the lead in congress in the passage of the legislation granting retroactive immunity to AT&T and the telecoms?
Who wants to end any semblance of network neutrality so they can control the Internet?
What was the name of that old German pop song with the lyric,
"Rock...e...feller....Rock..e.... .Rock ...e ..feller"?
he's known for proving that language is innate in humans. it's a pretty big deal, unlike yourself.
insensitive clod overlords obligatory xkcd car analogy russian reversals whoosh pedant fanbois ftfy in 3...2...1..PROFIT
Chomsky's politics are quite sophisticated and thoroughly plausible, they certainly aren't "strange". He IS bucking the narrative that America's elites spoon feed ordinary Americans. As a result, he gets painted as a crackpot because those elites really dont want anyone to listen to what he is actually saying. You should actually listen to what he says if for no other reason to broaden your intellectual horizons even if you still disagree with him.
If you get outside of the propaganda bubble in the U.S. he has views that aren't even particularly out of the main stream. Ron Paul receives exactly the same treatment from American elites. Paul was dismissed as a crackpot up until the 2008 financial crisis and the massive shenanigans the Fed and the Treasury department pulled to save the bankers, now a lot of people realize most of the issues he's raised with the Fed for decades were, in fact . . . right on the money.
The Federal Reserve IS a conspiracy, the only source of controversy is who exactly is behind it. The one group that is obviously involved is Wall Street bankers since they hold most of the power in the Fed and they abuse it handsomely to enrich themselves. Do you see a problem with:
A. The Fed being largely run by bankers and having the power to print money and distribute it to BANKERS, In the process they get to debase America's currency at their whim and when they do they steal money out of the pockets of responsible savers to the benefit of irresponsible debtors including and especially the Federal government.
B. The Federal Reserve is the primary regulator of banks and it is run by BANKERS. This is generally referred to as the fox guarding the chicken coop. Its a key reason why we are having financial crises originating in the banking system because the regulatory system is completely captured.
C. The Fed gets to set interest rates for banks to zero, and give them huge loans for free to gamble on stocks, commodities, etc. One reason commodity prices are seeing huge spikes recently, banks have a huge liquidity spigot and no place to blow it. The last thing they want to do with it since 2008 is actually loan it to businesses or home buyers and create actual jobs.
D. The Fed gets to manipulate the Consumer Price Index so it reports inflation dramatically below real inflation, real inflation has been running 10-20% in recent years in food and energy, the things people buy every day. Couple high real inflation with near zero percent interests on bank deposits and you have something called "financial repression". It is a system where the Fed or any central bank completely screws people, especially old people, who are responsible, save money and don't want to play in the rigged casino that are our stock markets now. Its a system designed to transfer their money to banks, gamblers on the stock marker and to debtors.
E. For the last few years the Fed has been printing money and buying trillions in U.S. government debt with it. Once you start doing that you have turned in to a banana republic and its just a matter of time before your currency collapses and you have hyperinflation.
The only thing you can say for letting the bankers (the Fed) guard the chicken coop (our money) is that letting government and politicians guard it would probably be even worse.
@de_machina