Normally, when non-US folks whine, moan, bitch and complain about the US role in managing the Internet, the US folks answer: "You don't like our Internet? Build your own then!"

Well, I guess this retort applies to the US folks now. If you don't like your FCC Comcast Time Warner Paid Prioritization Internet . . . "Build your own then!"

I would suggest we start small, with a store and forward network, named after someone's dog.

My dog is named "Fido".

No, as an American citizen, my own government might try . . .

Well, if you were hit by lightning during that time, you probably won't remember!

That's the whole point of the article . . . or don't you remember what the article was all about . . . ?

Nice idea, but . . .

The hard disks containing the evidence from the drones would crash.

Along with all the hard disks of any computers containing email referencing evidence from the drones.

And all the backup tapes would be "recycled".

And the person in charge would drop her pants, moon the government, invoke the 5th Amendment, and invite the government to kiss her hairy ass.

Oh, and she gets early retirement and a juicy taxpayer funded pension, too.

Isn't that what business on the Internet is all about: Making money from morons . . . ?

As to Internet with Drones . . . it won't be a serious business until the porn providers start offering it. Porn is the bellwether of any Internet technology.

Oh, that's too easy! Islam bans just about everything!

Even this smiley is banned by Islam:

This is the Prophet Mohammed smiling -> :-)

A colon, a dash, and a close parenthesis . . . the world's shortest banned book!

Actually, there's some sense in your statement. If you look at our world today, the biggest threat to life on this planet is not gamma rays. The biggest threat to life on this planet . . . is other life on this planet. Most of that is motivated by these "ancient superstitions".

The cruel irony is, that Islam, Christianity and the Judaism are all based on the same Jewish Fairy Tales. And despite that it seems that Muslims are hell-bent on killing everyone who isn't a Muslim. This latest Islamic State crew even seem to want to kill fellow Muslims as well.

Forget gamma rays. If, in the future, we are able to travel to habitable planets . . . we'll probably discover that the life there has destroyed itself. No need for gamma rays to do what life can do to itself.

Someone asked an ancient Roman poet:

Which wine do you prefer to drink?

His answer:

Wine, that someone else has paid for.

You could say the same for conferences. The last one I attended was on the Greek island of Samos. Everyone there was there because someone else was paying for it. I honestly didn't have the gall to ask my manager to approve a business trip to a Greek vacation island, so my colleague did it. Since the costs were booked to an EU project that I was working on, he approved it.

Maybe Europe needs an old China-style one child policy . . . ?

Monty Python: "African European Swallow or European European Swallow . . . ? "

In the case of Germany, I would tend to agree with you. The German unions try to reach a reasonable consensus with management which is acceptable to all parties involved.

In the case of France, I would tend to disagree with you. They kidnap company executives, and generally make the place appear toxic for business.

The French rail workers' unions have a simple rule when to strike: Whenever I am in France. Normal Slashdot Dogma states that correlation does not equal causation, but in the case of French rail workers . . . I just need to get near the French border, and a strike will break out.

So you end up with replacing Machiavellian Managers . . . with Machiavellian Union Bosses . . .