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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: East Coast outage?
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:52:49PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > Rubbish. > > > > If in order to make it viable such energy needs to be subsidized then it is > > not "affordable". > > That's a rather amusing position for someone in the IP world to take. > I seem to recall DARPA subsidizing research into packet-switched > computer networks, which (I'm told) gave rise to this "Internet" thing > I keep hearing about. Actually there is a major difference - in one case you have fundamental R&D that results in "Internet" in the other case you have a bunch of crybabies that cannot make in the competitive energy market so they scream that the government should subsidize their more costly energy. Alex
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