jd, i miss you. ;) doc On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, J.D. Falk wrote: :Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:48:32 -0700 :From: J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> :To: nanog@nanog.org :Subject: [OT] NTK now, 2001-09-14 (excerpt) : : :http://www.ntk.net : :In these terrible times, it's good to watch the tech :community put its problems aside, and supply what we were :all so desperately short of: plenty of wild unsolicited :opinions. After those first few hours of awful shocked :silence - what a relief to be interrupted by the CEO of :CoffeeCup Software, producers of an innocuous Windows HTML :editor, e-mailing his 1.2 million customer base to "call for :[the responsible] country's complete destruction and :annihilation". And at the end of that fateful day, noted :hacker Eric S. Raymond rained his thoughts like fresh water, :revealing that those who "disarmed all the non-terrorists on :those airplanes ... bear some moral responsibility". Thanks :too to BYTE's Jerry Pournelle, who slowly toughened his :demands from an early request that /usr/bin/laden be handed :over "bound and chained", to Thursday's demand that Nablus, :Gaza, Baghdad *and* Damascus be razed to the ground; to the :Evening Standard infowar expert who warned that "inflamed :young men" could escalate the conflict by releasing "cyber :viruses, crashing our computers ... from council houses in :Bradford"; and kindly John Keegan in the Telegraph, who :wrote that ISPs should ban encryption among their users, and :those who refused must be "destroyed with cruise :missiles". And on through the lonely nights, as net.folk on :chat traded credulous rumours and confused geopolitics, and :Nostradamus buffs mulled seriously over a quatrain that, :sadly, was probably invented by a skeptic to show how *any* :random phrase could end up a doomladen prophecy. But be :assured that the crisis is not yet over. Please help: :opinions are still desperately needed - and bloggers, :columnists and sleep-deprived newsreaders are running short :of ideas. So: do you have some minority you'd like to :haphazardly blame? Some half-arsed genocidal theory you'd :like to insist become global policy? Some simplistic :demonisation of a country's recent history that needs to be :waved in the faces of everyone you know? Mail it to our :hotline on devnull@spesh.com, and we'll pass it on to those :who must fill the useless silence which would otherwise be :wasted on slow, methodical grief. : :http://www.coffeecup.com/attack/ :- "many e-mails thanking me for removing the word 'annihilation'" : :http://www.adequacy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/9/12/102423/271 :- Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics : :http://www.jerrypournelle.com/war/whattodo.html :- "There may be other places." : :http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/dt?pg=/01/9/14/do01.html :- also, if their contention ratio goes above twenty, nuke 'em : :http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=45691... :- no hidden meaning in using Bradford as an example : :http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.ed.brocku.ca/~nmarshal/nostradamus.... :- search for "abstract" : :----- End forwarded message ----- : : And, for the record, I agree that political stuff should be : moved off of NANOG -- though I greatly appreciate the efforts : of Sean Donelan and others to keep us all informed on how the : disaster affects the Internet. : :-- :J.D. Falk all good dreams return in time :<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> :