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Cross-post in order to stay OT RE: HUMOR: NANOG stop the economic downturn :-)
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:27:46 -0800
There are already plenty of people busy on this task, which requires tapping into all the trading desks and order processing systems. Unfortunately for Mr. Codrescu, in order to do what he asks, you have to 1: Commit massive global CyberCrime. 2: Choose not to profit personally from it. His hyperbolic prose borders on poetry. Unfortunately, as with most poetry, it is not of much use in solving real problems.
-----Original Message----- From: Steve Pirk [mailto:orion () pirk com] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 5:44 PM To: nanog () nanog org Subject: HUMOR: NANOG stop the economic downturn :-) Heard this on NPR's All Things Considered today... Get busy people! :-) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98694231 Poet on Call by Andrei Codrescu The Machines Haven't Taken Over All Things Considered, December 24, 2008 With one pull of a switch,
the
ocean of junk that spilled out of my mailbox every day, was swooshed back into the speechless abyss. If you had asked me before this news, what hand human or divine could stop spam, I'd have answered like Heraclitus,
"Who
can stop the sea from rising?" It turns out that somebody before a keyboard can, thank you. There is hope. Machines haven't yet taken over. If it's that easy to stop what seemed like unstoppable, why can't other seemingly unstoppable human-generated and computer-driven phenomena be switched off the same way? Why isn't somebody pulling the switch on the collapsing world
trade
going on in the cracks between time zones? What's going on while I
sleep
and my retirement money slips down some unfathomable hole? Why don't
the
providers capable of such cosmic gestures as making the spam-ocean vanish, not exercise their benevolent force against other oceans that threaten us: the automatic unfair trades, the silent streams of world capital vanishing into invisible dead zones, the globe-circling panics? -- Steve Equal bytes for women.
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