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Re: East Coast outage?
- From: alex
- Date: Fri Aug 15 19:20:24 2003
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:52:49PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com 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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