Really? This guy gets a +1? What is wrong with this site?

Do I think that private inefficiencies are better? Yes. Why? Because they waste private money. Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money.
"Like with everything else in government: through taxes, with rich people paying more."
You've lost your credibility here.

I disagree. Although your monthly bill will disappear, the massive agency that will run the federal ISP will need funding. Where does that money come from in your equation? Add the gross inefficiencies, waste, and abuse that are rife in government agencies and contracting, and you'll be paying more in the end.

Nonsense. This is all to further censor information in Iran. There are much more effective and cheaper methods to protect IT infrastructure than to isolate an entire nation from the web. How much more can the mullahs take from everyday Iranians?

Some advice to the firms helping Iran out with this:
Avoid being paid in rials.

I'm nearly certain that "repairibility" is patented.
Sue them!

After reading this, I would prefer to have all of my candy tracked. Except Jujubes. No one likes those.

Now Microsoft needs others to do its dirty work? I can see it now, poor XP being buried in a cornfield by hired goons Adobe and Google. When will this cycle of violence end?

Sign me up! This deal sounds just as good as the one the kid from the Geeksquad gave me on my new fatherboard.

Your comments seem to be long on rhetoric/petulance/vulgarity and short on any data. We'll try something, because as abrasive as your posts are, I would be interested in hearing more about your argument - I'll make a cogent argument, and you can make one too. It's called a civil dialogue.
I believe that India would be better served developing more reliable and robust power and water utilities because it would:
-Drive healthcare costs down
-Increase productivity in the Indian economy by giving industry what it needs to thrive, namely power and water
-Ensure a greater portion of the money is spent domestically, rather than a supercomputer which would involve significant foreign remittances
-Create a stable environment to attract foreign investment

The politicians in India are talking about investments in space and supercomputers because its sexy and gets people's attention. Whether or not these investments are going to materialize, or if they're even wise, remains to be seen. Perhaps all my fellow Americans will read about an Indian supercomputer one day, while we enjoy the comforts of our future lives on Moonbase Gingrich.

Isn't a supercomputer a "public works" project? Thank you for repeating your argument. I can now see it multiple times. Although, I am interested in hearing about how a supercomputer is going to lift Indians out of poverty.

I believe the original post's argument was that India would be better served spending the money on basic infrastructure. While a supercomputer is great, it's not going to pay the same dividends that clean drinking water and reliable power would. Not only do those very basic utilities reduce healthcare costs, they are productivity multipliers and would benefit the Indian economy greatly.

While you are correct that nuances exist and that there are shades of gray, I believe what the original post was referring to was the nature of granting exceptions to laws. The "heckler's veto" comes to mind here, as does the slippery slope of censorship.

Yes, how dare he!? Everyone knows that Aramco should have been using the Arabic port of Debian.