I'm surprised it's still running. Time will tell if it's just solid work done in the past, amazing luck, or maybe us bystanders don't know as much as we like to think.

The thing about the unknown is, you don't know what it is.

Not off hand. I'm not sure it was ever seriously proposed that USPS run it. In 92 I was managing an internet "share" that grew into in ISP ("toasternet") in 93, 94. Before that I was doing FidoNet stuff. I had my hands full then.

Maybe cypherpunk archives. Early/pre EFF. Though I later ran then sold an ISP I was in it for the network building. By 95 it was over, big money taking over as is now quite obvious.

You're hired.

It was! In late 1993 we had the very first commercial T1 from MCI Govt Sys Div. From SF we could ping London in 10 mS (I think it was), two hops.

Ummm maybe with you? Lol

Twitter is already banned in China. China's interest is in disinfo in the US.

Yes you do. It works like this:

Citizens are posting tons about SUBJECT MATTER. Bad actors (CCP) then post floods of SUBJECT MATTER with porn attached. Spam filters see porn, then start filtering SUBJECT MATTER too. Then it all gets taken down as if it were the same thing.

? Did you scroll down? Lots of text.

The failure of the American internet began 1 Jan 1993 when the military and commercial domains were split, commerce sold to the corps the owned the lines.

The internet infrastructure should have been handed to the US Postal Service, which was exactly the sort of entity needed to run it. They already "thought that way" -- equal service to rural and city.

Most sensible countries run internet that way. Yet another way the US is inferior, like health care.

All the speech one can afford.

The only things big enough to push oligarchs like musk around are large states to which he is beholden.

Imagine the profits to be had!

The GOP is obviously trying to favor itself.

A lot!

Perfectly reasonable ask, if you are a fascist trying to gain power you do not deserve.

Poor babies

"In their petition, the Republican committees argue that only 10 counties – “all of them Democratic-leaning” – plan to conduct early voting that day, “eviscerating the statutorily required uniformity among Georgia’s counties.”

2022 has been a year of blatant, obvious, overexposure to what global billions and power really means.

Musk, zuck, trump, GOP, Kanye West, fifa, bankers, all scumbags.

At some risk, we need to more loudly point out the hypocrisy of taking part in these things (FIFA events) to our friends and family.

'are waiting for answers' is a polite way of translating the 'fuck you we don't care' to a palatable response for middle class Americans.

Obviously the environment that created the horror ain't gonna fix it. I don't know why they need to wrap this in possibility and future accountability. Ain't gonna.

Ahhh ... A dim memory fog rises... Yeah as an assembly programmer (from minicomputer days through x286) there was an issue with the flags, x86 to x80, I can recall and won't look up.

PUSH PSW

Pushed the accumulator (A, 8 bits) and program status word (flags like carry, etc) at once and there were side effects too boring to recall. Ugh glad the good old days are gone who needs that shit!

Rich fucks are the worst whiners.

Of course, when it's to their advantage.

Without profit data this is useless. Actually without knowing what the significant components of the cost are, this data is positively misleading.

In fact I don't believe the assertion that the cost of crude is that significant.