Internet 2

Tuesday November 15, 2005 - 3:02PM EDT

GM is in debt a quarter trillion dollars. That is govermental type debt. And they are assuring people they won't file for bankruptcy. The actual debt number really doesn't mean as much as it sounds. Because I don't understand the economics of their situation not all of that debt could be bad. They do run a very large loan agency anyway. No they are issuing earnings restatements for previous years in which cooking the books was panache and of course they lose billions every month.

I also keep hearing about this internet governance rigamarole. How in the hell did a bunch of moronic diplomats get their hands on a technical matter they have no business probing. I wonder what the real techies think in other countries like China and Iran of ceeding some "control" of the internet to them. They are probably shitting their pants at the prospect of someone fucking with the internet for political reasons. The funny part about all these commentators on the subject is that they have no clue. They go straight to things like "governance" and jump into the fray with political polemicy. No one governs the internet. That is a ludicrous statement. Here is what internet governance is. A few well placed severs around the world that have a list of names matched to numbers. That is it. That is all ICANN does keep those names and numbers matched up, nothing else. This hubbub over domain names is assinine. It is a political power play and nothing more. Some losers will argue over imagined technical issues but fail to realize that ICANN really doesn't "control" or "govern" the internet. I can't stand some commentators ridiculous arguments. They are so contrived. They give reasons based on priciple and other ephemeral arguements that have no place in a technical arguement. I don't know how these losers got it into their head that the US has control. The US has control over nothing except a list of names. A list of names that anyone on the planet can modify in less than 10 minutes. This thought that the US mantains ultimate control of the Internet is a psycotic dellusion. These asswipes should be talking about how China censors the hell out of the internet, that is control. They seem to miss the whole point of the internet and its functionality. All these commentators like to use reasoning like the "internet is a global resource" and it is so important to "global commerce". I read some loser's analogy about the US demanding all financial transactions be made in dollars to be akin to US internet "control". US has never controled functionality on the internet and that is what global commerce is about. Not domain names. I don't think they realize that the US government probably couldn't control the internet in the way these pundits have in their heads if they wanted to. I want these commentators to define what US control is of the internet and what affect it has on global commerce. They couldn't because the US has no "control" of the internet that effects global commerce. Then these guys completely ignore the fact the government is spending more money creating a faster version of the internet for the world to use. All this control nonsense is in their heads.