Cross-post in order to stay OT RE: HUMOR: NANOG stop the economic downturn :-)

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

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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