Toss out bloated TCP P2P UDP moves to the IP (160-bit) Header 60-bit Locators in the IP Header (or One-Way IP with no Source only a Channel/Port) 68-bit IDs in the IPv16 Header (320-bit) with up to 16 bytes of data
160+320=480 bit DHT Keys for the SOA The Network IS the Registry
$25 is a really expensive used tire. I paid $40 for a near-new set of 4 Michelin MXV4 215-65/15 from a yard sale for the last Mercedes I bought. (which cost $1850 in 1996 with 186,000 miles on it).
I'm happy to announce after 8 years of faithful (*cough*) service, my parents Windows ME system has finally been replaced by XP; they got a new (to them) computer cause the old one was "full". I have to say I wish I could have first used XP with a 10 year old fully patched system instead of a "well here it is, good luck" XP release so many years ago.
(I threw their full drive away, installed a SCSI RAID array, then XP from a thumbdrive and am now watching HD movies on it, despite having less actual computing power than a Raspberry Pi.)
Watch this and ask if you still have a question. Nature of things, David Suzuki, 1 hr. We're 200 years into a 1000 year cycle of magnetic pol revrsal. This is why they keep having to change the numbers on runways periodically.
CERN reproduced the findings which does explain the climate. Then the CERN lab director put a gag order on the results. Look this all up for yourself.
I've done game and other realtime/process control/vision programming too, for a few decades. We both know there's only a small amount of code that has to be blindingly fast (even if "render" one of those "small amounts") and the rest is grudgework. I posit that I could take one of your working games in C/C++ an rewrtite it in js and assembly for the critical bits and that it would run faster than what you have now.
>So wait - javascript is the ultimate answer to programming?
Pretty much. Some guy wrote an x86 emulator in it and can run linux under it. I tried it and even on my shitty laptop I could use vi and compile and run small c program. In a browser tab. That's right, an instance of linux in any browser tab you care to run it in.
Try doing that in any other language, and being able to write something like that so easily and quickly - which only works because of some of the esoteric properties js has.
I learned C in 76 on the first pdp-11 in Canada an no other langauge has ever excited me and I've played with them all. js excites me, there's just nothing you can't do easily with it. The node.js thing now that it has the google v8 engine (a good 10x faster than any other js engine) actually can serve up web pages 30% faster than Apache, written in C. That's not bad for an interpreted language and happens of course because of the asynchronous nature of the language. We waste so much time in linear langauges like c to make event stuff happen, when it's part of the langauge it's soooo much quicker. And js has a bunch of properties that wern't even a glimmer in dmr's eye back in the day.
No, it really is cool as hell and you should look at it in depth, I think you'd be surprised. Have a look at about 5 hours of Doug Crockford's videos, it takes that long to explain all this stuff.
It's a brilliant choice to learn programming. All other languages are subsets of javascript so by really learning js then things like scheme, lisp and C aren't mysterious at all; I think this was a very good decision on Khan's part.
Your toggle switches worked? You shouldn't be allowed to use a PDP 8/e unless you can solder a broken switch and fix the lights. Don't forget cleaning the tape heads.
The skills for installing python and learning general programming only have common sense and logic in common, like they do with plumbing and car repair.
The thing about teaching js is, you're employable right away
Go watch the video on the yahoo tech site (or yt, titles: JavaScript: The Good Parts, JavaScript: The Good Parts - Technical Presentations) about js by Doug Crockford there's about 8 hours worth. If they don't convince you js is, along with C, the only language worth knowing, get back to me. We still haven't even scratched the surface of what js can do; node.js on the server is going to speed up a lot of things and it's still in it's infancy.
I liked js from day one but didn't play with it much until recently - it was pretty flakey 10 years ago, One of the bottom lines of those videos is that from an academic theoretical computer linguistics point of view, js is pretty much the current state of the art, it's got the good things from all the good languages before it without any of the bad things that made stuff like c++ and java such useless bloated pigs. And it's great to mention things like scheme and erlang but job opportunities for those are, well, um, not abundant.
Top 5 revelations so far (h/t Juan Cole) of the first few emails out of five million to be released:
1. Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report. 2. Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and destroyed their health. I.e., Stratfor was not just doing analysis but was involved in private intelligence operations against civil society groups that had a right to protest. 3. Stratfor Vice President Fred Burton, a former State Department official involved in counter-terrorism, lamented that in the old days the US would simply have assassinated Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez and Bolivian leftist leader Evo Morales. 4. Russia sold weapons to Iran but turned around and gave their security codes to Israel. 5. The fifth revelation is that often Stratfor analysts did not know what they were talking about and had an extreme rightwing bias.
(What we're talking about here are intetnet names and numbers. DNS and IP adresses)
"Really, for the most part the only people who want it to stay in the US are American nationalists, xenophobes, and those with a vested interest in retaining the power it affords
The first amendment. Due process.
The US government knows damn well it does this stuff it *our* leisure. All it took is a handful of people looking at NSI's alternative root and TLD servers for them to get that pretty quick. So we have some leverage and they won't do anything TOO stupid - we're doing ok at fighting back the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of intellectual property lobbying dollars with just a large number of net.users bitching about it. Try doing that in China or the UN. Or Geneva. You'll be told "decisions have been made, you can all go home, thanks for playing". Where do you think icann got this from?
No the US isn't the ideal place to lodge this kind of power. Nor is any government and eventually they'll all be cut out of the loop, it's just evolution and what the net does.
So, rather than spend the energy to move a bad system to another bad system, we should move it from a bad system to a good one we run. It's not rocket science.
"I've worked on a number of projects for which we created our own "root" servers, and added them to the appropriate file in all our systems. It worked fine, and nobody outside our project even noticed."
Yup.
"So we should continue to harp on this at every opportunity."
"Yes, I'm rather taken with the idea of a distributed, hash-addressible global public cache right now."
Um, why yes.
There's a lot of thought being given to that for the last little while. It works well enough for pirate bay right?
I used Apollo workstations in the mid 80s an they had a decentralized file system. You never knew where your files actually were, all you knew if if you added disk it got used and you never seemed to be out of space. Oh and if the network was buggered you didn't have access to all the files you should you did.
I think the pirate bay guys already have a DHT DNS, the thing to not do is allow for any icann type organizations and the broken pats of the old dns, like character set issues, reserved letter and word issues, oh that and the massive institutional corruption that coopted organic growth of the network, probably a good idea to leave that out.
But the system worked great and I've been dismayed it only showed up once in commercial computer history.
If you chase the authority up the line it goes ICANN --> NTIA --> DoC --> US Congress.
Now, how prepared do you think the US congress is going to be to hand their control of the Internet over to China and Russia?
The ITU has been seeking relevance to the Internet since the 90s; in a world where balancing line voltages is no longer important the ITU's role in international telecommunications has been severely dimini$hed.
If you look at any step of the way, Bob Shaw from the ITU has been running around in secret trying to cover his tracks.
When GE Federal Systems used Alternic and posted it was "as good as if not better" than the legacy root servers, who called from the INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION IN GENEVA (t SOUNDS so impressive, in real terms, it's as impressive as being, say, the LAN administrator for the White House. Not much global policymaking happens in THAT cubicle) and asked them to stop as this was dangerous? Bob Shaw of the ITU. Oh, and he asked that his name be kept of it ("I didn't say this, I was never here" - Dune). Pity he didn't get the secretary to swear to the same secrecy, she told me who it was. Get used to it, maggots.
Who introduced the Government Advisory Comittee ("GAC") into ICANN as a fait d'accompli, drawn up in secret, who meet in secret but only have an advisory role - except where they insist on policy? DING DING DING - Bob Shaw of the ITU again. I held a quick straw poll on the floor of the first ICANN meeting in Berlin (the neo nazi demostration outside was a nice touch) and 13 out of 1000 people thought the GAC was a good idea - this for an organization that is supposed to "measure and implement community consensus" as its charter. The footage is still around on the Berkman Center servers at Harvard, and I have copies.
Who knew the fix was in an the US goverment had already picked an ICANN an ignored the worlds work via IFWP and bragged about it drunk in DC ? Bob Shaw of the ITU. He still owes me money from smoking all my wifes Virgina Slims from that night too.I don't trust him or the ITU with $10, let along the internet. He doesn't get this openness thing and is instead a remnant of old world secrecy.
At any rate, ICANN only has any authority at all at our leisure. If we type different numbers into special places in our computers they pretty much cease to exist in any operational capacity as the net is edge controlled, not centrally controlled. Everybody with a root password controls a little piece of it, and it grows at the edges.
This UN governance thing has been repeating like an onion sandwich for over a decade now. When the ITU couldn't get the IANA contract it upped the ante to use the UN moniker to try to get everyone in the world to rally behind it. Waste of time, they can be safely ignored. Nobody takes them seriously.
This happened in Mesopotamia too. It's called "biological succession" - forest gives way to grassland which gives way to scrub which becomes desert. It happened all over Africa and Mesopotamia is now called Iraq. Environmental biology 101.
We haven't been screaming for people to take care of the soil, flora and fauna for nothing. But carry on.
Harper isn't just religous, he's delusional. Bush, Blair and Harper shared a belief that there was something special about Jerusalem and that end times blah blah blah...
You can't have world leader babbling on about mystacism in the 21st century, but even they know that and so don't say much in public but those three are friendly enoiugh and so so eye to eye on this that when real policy is crafted from ideas, you know, the stuff you don't get to see get made, the stuff that just happens, the mystic contributoin to this equation is non-zero.
Look at this "Now he has reached the same conclusion about the man ensconced at 24 Sussex Drive. On stage, Hagee lauded one of Stephen Harperâ(TM)s first post-election acts: after Hamas militants won power in the Palestinian Authority, Harper became the first world leader to cut off its funding, trumping even Bush. âoeGod has promised to bless the man, the church, the nation that blesses the Jewish people,â Hagee purred from the podium. âoeI am so delighted that Canadaâ(TM)s prime minister immediately denounced Hamas terrorism when he became the leader of this great nation.â
Mount up boys! The crusades are back on!
The guy is just flat out nuts, and the least possible help to world peace imaginable
ps - the editing system isn't passing through double-quote correctly. somebody ought to look at that.
Not much would have changed had Quebec separated*, and the chance of this happening was about a small as being able to get to the moon from a catapult and Mulroney knew this; he just did it for the power and status. Of course he side with the Americans, and it's not like he wasn't caught in a huge bribery scandal. But I'm sure that time he got caught was the only time THAT ever happened . Harper's involvement in the subjugation of Canadian government into effectively a department of the American Federal government - but without the checks and balance THEY have makes him in my mind a worse actor on the political stage that Mulrony who was just, like Nixon, a crooked used car salesman of a man who got caught.
Of course maybe it's just a coincidence too that bad policy in the US shows up in Canada shortly after. The wars, the new prisons, mandatory minimum sentences, an energy policy outdone by India, Germany and who knows who else.
There was a hope in the 70s that now that WII was truly well and gone and Vietnam is over then perhaps we'd get more for our money and life would be better. But it got steadily worse and it's much worse now that it was during the Vietnam era. Why? Because the people we put in power that were supposed to be dong things for the country and it's people had to instead sell out to moneyed interests just to get elected to do what little good they could work out in compromises with borderline criminals who saw this all as a crop to be harvested one time.
*some things are universal constants: when a dictator takes power they say, in every case, it's for the stability of the country. Hell, this was even ICANN's rationalization for their assuming total control "for the stability of the net" - ha ha, jokes on you boys, they really meant "so intellectual property owners see no changes at all" - which they got away with for a decade. What's also true is whenever there's a separation of a state into smaller states predictions of doom and gloom abound, but no matter how old you are if you're reading this you can see examples in very recent history of new countries formed and life goes on. It's just FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) to keep entrenched regimes of power in place.
Slashdot Mirror
" You know how quickly you can replicate 200MB across the internet? "
As DNS TXT records? Pretty quickly.
Oh, say, there's an idea.
http://pirate.bay/ anyone?
Scary part: they're programmed in FORTRAN. (I think. My ex did software validation on GLCM and SLCM)
Balloons might help too.
Wear pants.
Shave every day.
Water your cactus on your birthday.
Go outside and get a face full of sun and some fresh air an exercise once a day. This is important.
Take your vitamins.
"I suspect there will be more use of HTTPS and SSL, too."
http://vimeo.com/18279777 (ignore the first 15 minutes of chair shuffling)
"The free, unmonitored, unfiltered, open internet we know today will be unrecognizable ten years from now,
uucp had this working alright, it's the telco based tcp/ip that screwed us up.
wimax mesh may fix that. and we really ought to dump tcp.
a bell labs buddy of mine sent me this recently:
40 years of netorking, redux
uucico --> inetd --> bit torrent (P2P) -----> Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Toss out bloated TCP
P2P UDP moves to the IP (160-bit) Header
60-bit Locators in the IP Header (or One-Way IP with no Source only a
Channel/Port)
68-bit IDs in the IPv16 Header (320-bit) with up to 16 bytes of data
160+320=480 bit DHT Keys for the SOA
The Network IS the Registry
$25 is a really expensive used tire. I paid $40 for a near-new set of 4 Michelin MXV4 215-65/15 from a yard sale for the last Mercedes I bought. (which cost $1850 in 1996 with 186,000 miles on it).
You rich kids and your $25 tires. Geesh.
Oblig: lawn, damn kids, yadda yadda
I'm happy to announce after 8 years of faithful (*cough*) service, my parents Windows ME system has finally been replaced by XP; they got a new (to them) computer cause the old one was "full". I have to say I wish I could have first used XP with a 10 year old fully patched system instead of a "well here it is, good luck" XP release so many years ago.
(I threw their full drive away, installed a SCSI RAID array, then XP from a thumbdrive and am now watching HD movies on it, despite having less actual computing power than a Raspberry Pi.)
Watch this and ask if you still have a question. Nature of things, David Suzuki, 1 hr. We're 200 years into a 1000 year cycle of magnetic pol revrsal. This is why they keep having to change the numbers on runways periodically.
CERN reproduced the findings which does explain the climate. Then the CERN lab director put a gag order on the results. Look this all up for yourself.
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/poles/
I've done game and other realtime/process control/vision programming too, for a few decades. We both know there's only a small amount of code that has to be blindingly fast (even if "render" one of those "small amounts") and the rest is grudgework. I posit that I could take one of your working games in C/C++ an rewrtite it in js and assembly for the critical bits and that it would run faster than what you have now.
I'm very proud of the fact that although I may have used punched cards and magtape but I never use those wretched paper (or DEC) tape things. Yick.
>So wait - javascript is the ultimate answer to programming?
Pretty much. Some guy wrote an x86 emulator in it and can run linux under it. I tried it and even on my shitty laptop I could use vi and compile and run small c program. In a browser tab. That's right, an instance of linux in any browser tab you care to run it in.
Try doing that in any other language, and being able to write something like that so easily and quickly - which only works because of some of the esoteric properties js has.
I learned C in 76 on the first pdp-11 in Canada an no other langauge has ever excited me and I've played with them all. js excites me, there's just nothing you can't do easily with it. The node.js thing now that it has the google v8 engine (a good 10x faster than any other js engine) actually can serve up web pages 30% faster than Apache, written in C. That's not bad for an interpreted language and happens of course because of the asynchronous nature of the language. We waste so much time in linear langauges like c to make event stuff happen, when it's part of the langauge it's soooo much quicker. And js has a bunch of properties that wern't even a glimmer in dmr's eye back in the day.
No, it really is cool as hell and you should look at it in depth, I think you'd be surprised. Have a look at about 5 hours of Doug Crockford's videos, it takes that long to explain all this stuff.
It's a brilliant choice to learn programming. All other languages are subsets of javascript so by really learning js then things like scheme, lisp and C aren't mysterious at all; I think this was a very good decision on Khan's part.
Your toggle switches worked? You shouldn't be allowed to use a PDP 8/e unless you can solder a broken switch and fix the lights. Don't forget cleaning the tape heads.
The skills for installing python and learning general programming only have common sense and logic in common, like they do with plumbing and car repair.
The thing about teaching js is, you're employable right away
Go watch the video on the yahoo tech site (or yt, titles: JavaScript: The Good Parts, JavaScript: The Good Parts - Technical Presentations) about js by Doug Crockford there's about 8 hours worth. If they don't convince you js is, along with C, the only language worth knowing, get back to me. We still haven't even scratched the surface of what js can do; node.js on the server is going to speed up a lot of things and it's still in it's infancy.
I liked js from day one but didn't play with it much until recently - it was pretty flakey 10 years ago, One of the bottom lines of those videos is that from an academic theoretical computer linguistics point of view, js is pretty much the current state of the art, it's got the good things from all the good languages before it without any of the bad things that made stuff like c++ and java such useless bloated pigs. And it's great to mention things like scheme and erlang but job opportunities for those are, well, um, not abundant.
15 years ago when we were running around screaming about this... where were you guys?
Top 5 revelations so far (h/t Juan Cole) of the first few emails out of five million to be released:
1. Up to 12 Pakistani active-duty and retired officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency knew that Usama Bin Laden was in Abbottabad and were in regular contact with him. The Pakistani chief of staff is denying the report.
2. Dow Chemicals hired Stratfor to spy on activists in Agra who continue to protest over the Bhopal environmental disaster that blinded many workers and destroyed their health. I.e., Stratfor was not just doing analysis but was involved in private intelligence operations against civil society groups that had a right to protest.
3. Stratfor Vice President Fred Burton, a former State Department official involved in counter-terrorism, lamented that in the old days the US would simply have assassinated Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez and Bolivian leftist leader Evo Morales.
4. Russia sold weapons to Iran but turned around and gave their security codes to Israel.
5. The fifth revelation is that often Stratfor analysts did not know what they were talking about and had an extreme rightwing bias.
Juan Cole has more about these on his site.
(What we're talking about here are intetnet names and numbers. DNS and IP adresses)
" Really, for the most part the only people who want it to stay in the US are American nationalists, xenophobes, and those with a vested interest in retaining the power it affords
The first amendment. Due process.
The US government knows damn well it does this stuff it *our* leisure. All it took is a handful of people looking at NSI's alternative root and TLD servers for them to get that pretty quick. So we have some leverage and they won't do anything TOO stupid - we're doing ok at fighting back the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of intellectual property lobbying dollars with just a large number of net.users bitching about it. Try doing that in China or the UN. Or Geneva. You'll be told "decisions have been made, you can all go home, thanks for playing". Where do you think icann got this from?
No the US isn't the ideal place to lodge this kind of power. Nor is any government and eventually they'll all be cut out of the loop, it's just evolution and what the net does.
So, rather than spend the energy to move a bad system to another bad system, we should move it from a bad system to a good one we run. It's not rocket science.
Neither of them are trustworthy of course.
We need to cut them out of the loop. Sharpen your pencils. Break out the Jolt.
"I've worked on a number of projects for which we created our own "root" servers, and added them to the appropriate file in all our systems. It worked fine, and nobody outside our project even noticed."
Yup.
"So we should continue to harp on this at every opportunity."
Yup
"Get ubiquidous encryption going"
These may be the droids you seek:
http://vimeo.com/18279777
(ignore the first 15 mins of chair shuffling)
"Yes, I'm rather taken with the idea of a distributed, hash-addressible global public cache right now."
Um, why yes.
There's a lot of thought being given to that for the last little while. It works well enough for pirate bay right?
I used Apollo workstations in the mid 80s an they had a decentralized file system. You never knew where your files actually were, all you knew if if you added disk it got used and you never seemed to be out of space. Oh and if the network was buggered you didn't have access to all the files you should you did.
I think the pirate bay guys already have a DHT DNS, the thing to not do is allow for any icann type organizations and the broken pats of the old dns, like character set issues, reserved letter and word issues, oh that and the massive institutional corruption that coopted organic growth of the network, probably a good idea to leave that out.
But the system worked great and I've been dismayed it only showed up once in commercial computer history.
If you chase the authority up the line it goes ICANN --> NTIA --> DoC --> US Congress.
Now, how prepared do you think the US congress is going to be to hand their control of the Internet over to China and Russia?
The ITU has been seeking relevance to the Internet since the 90s; in a world where balancing line voltages is no longer important the ITU's role in international telecommunications has been severely dimini$hed.
If you look at any step of the way, Bob Shaw from the ITU has been running around in secret trying to cover his tracks.
When GE Federal Systems used Alternic and posted it was "as good as if not better" than the legacy root servers, who called from the INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION IN GENEVA (t SOUNDS so impressive, in real terms, it's as impressive as being, say, the LAN administrator for the White House. Not much global policymaking happens in THAT cubicle) and asked them to stop as this was dangerous? Bob Shaw of the ITU. Oh, and he asked that his name be kept of it ("I didn't say this, I was never here" - Dune). Pity he didn't get the secretary to swear to the same secrecy, she told me who it was. Get used to it, maggots.
Who introduced the Government Advisory Comittee ("GAC") into ICANN as a fait d'accompli, drawn up in secret, who meet in secret but only have an advisory role - except where they insist on policy? DING DING DING - Bob Shaw of the ITU again. I held a quick straw poll on the floor of the first ICANN meeting in Berlin (the neo nazi demostration outside was a nice touch) and 13 out of 1000 people thought the GAC was a good idea - this for an organization that is supposed to "measure and implement community consensus" as its charter. The footage is still around on the Berkman Center servers at Harvard, and I have copies.
Who knew the fix was in an the US goverment had already picked an ICANN an ignored the worlds work via IFWP and bragged about it drunk in DC ? Bob Shaw of the ITU. He still owes me money from smoking all my wifes Virgina Slims from that night too.I don't trust him or the ITU with $10, let along the internet. He doesn't get this openness thing and is instead a remnant of old world secrecy.
At any rate, ICANN only has any authority at all at our leisure. If we type different numbers into special places in our computers they pretty much cease to exist in any operational capacity as the net is edge controlled, not centrally controlled. Everybody with a root password controls a little piece of it, and it grows at the edges.
This UN governance thing has been repeating like an onion sandwich for over a decade now. When the ITU couldn't get the IANA contract it upped the ante to use the UN moniker to try to get everyone in the world to rally behind it. Waste of time, they can be safely ignored. Nobody takes them seriously.
So...why attack in 2012? What is the point?
Penance. Surely they can grasp that.
We got our inspiration from a mystic flesh eating zombie. They should grok that too.
This happened in Mesopotamia too. It's called "biological succession" - forest gives way to grassland which gives way to scrub which becomes desert. It happened all over Africa and Mesopotamia is now called Iraq. Environmental biology 101.
We haven't been screaming for people to take care of the soil, flora and fauna for nothing. But carry on.
Harper isn't just religous, he's delusional. Bush, Blair and Harper shared a belief that there was something special about Jerusalem and that end times blah blah blah...
You can't have world leader babbling on about mystacism in the 21st century, but even they know that and so don't say much in public but those three are friendly enoiugh and so so eye to eye on this that when real policy is crafted from ideas, you know, the stuff you don't get to see get made, the stuff that just happens, the mystic contributoin to this equation is non-zero.
Look at this "Now he has reached the same conclusion about the man ensconced at 24 Sussex Drive. On stage, Hagee lauded one of Stephen Harperâ(TM)s first post-election acts: after Hamas militants won power in the Palestinian Authority, Harper became the first world leader to cut off its funding, trumping even Bush. âoeGod has promised to bless the man, the church, the nation that blesses the Jewish people,â Hagee purred from the podium. âoeI am so delighted that Canadaâ(TM)s prime minister immediately denounced Hamas terrorism when he became the leader of this great nation.â
Mount up boys! The crusades are back on!
The guy is just flat out nuts, and the least possible help to world peace imaginable
ps - the editing system isn't passing through double-quote correctly. somebody ought to look at that.
Not much would have changed had Quebec separated*, and the chance of this happening was about a small as being able to get to the moon from a catapult and Mulroney knew this; he just did it for the power and status. Of course he side with the Americans, and it's not like he wasn't caught in a huge bribery scandal. But I'm sure that time he got caught was the only time THAT ever happened . Harper's involvement in the subjugation of Canadian government into effectively a department of the American Federal government - but without the checks and balance THEY have makes him in my mind a worse actor on the political stage that Mulrony who was just, like Nixon, a crooked used car salesman of a man who got caught.
Of course maybe it's just a coincidence too that bad policy in the US shows up in Canada shortly after. The wars, the new prisons, mandatory minimum sentences, an energy policy outdone by India, Germany and who knows who else.
There was a hope in the 70s that now that WII was truly well and gone and Vietnam is over then perhaps we'd get more for our money and life would be better. But it got steadily worse and it's much worse now that it was during the Vietnam era. Why? Because the people we put in power that were supposed to be dong things for the country and it's people had to instead sell out to moneyed interests just to get elected to do what little good they could work out in compromises with borderline criminals who saw this all as a crop to be harvested one time.
*some things are universal constants: when a dictator takes power they say, in every case, it's for the stability of the country. Hell, this was even ICANN's rationalization for their assuming total control "for the stability of the net" - ha ha, jokes on you boys, they really meant "so intellectual property owners see no changes at all" - which they got away with for a decade. What's also true is whenever there's a separation of a state into smaller states predictions of doom and gloom abound, but no matter how old you are if you're reading this you can see examples in very recent history of new countries formed and life goes on. It's just FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) to keep entrenched regimes of power in place.