[nylug-talk] Broadband withIP addresses

[Ron Guerin]

Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> wrote:
>> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>
>>  >   one last word for me :  this is an extremely important issue, and if
>>  > people like NYLUG-ers aren't talking about it, who will?
>>
>>  It's a reasonable question coming from you because you're "new" here.  I
>>  was tempted to say a few things myself, but we've been over this before,
>>   it's going to get ugly, and it's going to piss off the people on
>>  *this* list.
>>
>>  Channeling Peter (forgive me Peter), nobody's positions are going to be
>>  moved a half inch by beating this dead horse some more.
>>
> 
>   I disagree.  If you show FACTS instead of 'BUSH SUX', people change
> their opinion.  I'm seeing a lot of misinformation on this topic.
> What else is new?

I'd love to be proved wrong, but you're up against three things here:

  1) People and positions who go way back with each other.

  2) Each side of the debate considers the other soft (either in the
     spine or the brain or both).

  3) This is leaning heavily toward social matters rather than tech.


>   btw- I'm a native NYer, currently kicking up sand in the west coast.

I meant you're "new" to the list (right?).  Trust me, when it comes to 
9/11 and related, you haven't missed anything worth watching again.  The 
one thing I'll say about all that was a number of people had ideas about 
using Linux and Free Software to aid in relief and rescue efforts.  The 
immediate aftermath of an attack is the wrong time to be complaining 
about the use of closed-source, proprietary solutions.  Nothing's been 
said since however, and if anyone would like to re-examine that, it 
might make a nice community project(s).

- Ron