You're new to this planet. See, there's this thing called human nature . . .

Yeah, it was hyperbole. Just don't don't want anybody to get the misguided notion that I'm in WF's pocket or something. I'm a poor mofo, most of my food is from "my essentials". Ain't got the money to be buyin some fancy hottie-tottie hippie food. :P

But if other folks like it, that's fine by me. And I don't deny they have some very nice food.

"Ego-stoking", apparently.

Yeah, my BS meter started going off only couple paragraphs in. I don't particularly care for Whole's Food either (big mac burger for me, please), but damn, man. Don't play the "skeptic" card if you're going to write junk. And I say that not as a critic, but as somebody who holds high standards. We have enough hacks on the FTBs as it is. :P

And look where that got us: getting our arse kicked by the damn Canadians!

Or a diamond pickaxe.

That trick doesn't even make sense for banks with large amounts of lender assets. Most normal [US] banks would be walking away from profits, if they decided to disappear.

No, the next digital and final system: LOLcat picture trading.

If a bunch of crazy hobos are arguing over whether or not a coin toss will come up heads or tails, the party that guess correctly does not deserve vindication. In other words, the validation of a prediction does not imply the reasoning behind the prediction was sound. Some idjit will misinterpret this as saying "It was a random chance that the gov was spying on us", or something equally stupid (I won't respond to such idjitness).

Spoken like a true blind sheeple. :P

The sign of true prevailing politics, or attitude, is subdued infighting. Not something that characterizes slashdot.

The military did have a project for its own networking needs, however that project was not arpanet, and it was not a precursor to the internet. It's not about thinking, it's about looking at the historical facts. And if I'm a naive fool, then so is history. Which is better than being willfully ignorant, which I can't say doesn't apply to those still holding to long-debunked stories.

That's an old myth. Yes, it was designed to be resilient and was funded by various government agencies, however its design was not with espionage or war in mind. In fact it was quite clear early on that it was not secure or even terribly reliable for many critical military needs. True, the government funded it as a defense project, but it was envisioned by academics, developed by academics, and developed to be agnostic to the nature of the user organizations (eg military, government, business, university).

coughibmcough.

Buy low, sell high. How convenient, there's a price drop! :p