So the people that actually use it don't care that the amount of [whatever] it buys varies wildly? I think you are wrong. I think the people that use t care greatly about how much of [whatever] they can buy with it.

The authoritarian Nazis are pushing for "states rights" unless the states decide something they don't like, in which case they introduce DOMA. They claim to be for states rights, until they aren't.

Because your family is dumb? There's no answer I could give. If I gave a correct and satisfactory answer, you could just move the goalposts. That's what always happens before, where the zealots support an unsupportable position.

Like how Nancy Pelosi was responsibly for everything bad that happened while Bush was in office? I remember there being a long list of problems with Clinton, at the time. Democrats have never done anything right, according to the Religious Conservatives.

Is that the "states rights" wing pushing to ban gay marriage on the national level to remove the rights for states?

Ah yes, no true Scotsman. Republicans are authoritarian thugs. You can't tell them the Teabaggers are Libertarian, or Democrat. They want to authoritatively tell people how to live, and enforce that with law. The Libertarians in the US are anti-democracy and for big government.

Hosts would work today.

And I'd see "shadow DNS" as being DNS hosted by registrars and ISPs. I don't see why there'd be such a problem if the US was removed from the Internet. example.co.uk would still survive on the (presumably) UK-based nameserver of authority for that domain. Or do all the domains in the world get served from the US and only the US?

If I BGP peered with my ISP (and they did no verification of ownership of IPs, or other basic security), and I advertised 12.32.111.0/24, and nobody else was advertising that /24 then what would happen?

What, so when the hotrodder hits 70 mph, the child magnet turns on?

Can we script a takedown of all of the members of the MPAA?

Everyone selling IoT I've seen doesn't use Internet connected devices. They are all private networks, secured and firewalled off. This helps them charge for people administering the devices they've already bought.

And you are assuming real-time updates. As you note, DNS isn't today (because caching). For most cases, it would work like today. My home router doesn't know how to get to the Internet, but doesn't need to. It knows its next hop, and that hop knows the next, until someone finally knows the whole thing. It isn't me, and I don't need to know. That's how DNS works today. I don't ask the authoritative server every time. I don't want that, and they don't want that.

So why are you assuming a replacement that ignores decades of learning and does it in the worst possible manner?

So the price has been stable against gold, but fluctuating wildly against fiat currency? Or are you just no true scotsmaning the crashes?

You can't manage it. I was on The Early Internet. You'd be surprised how many people advertised blocks they didn't own, and got away with it because there were so many to choose from, you'd probably not accidentally step on one in use. The locks on advertising addresses to ensure ownership and such came after. With IPv6 and no authority, we'd see people randomly use addresses, without allocation. And it would work pretty well, given the V6 address space.

Anyone who complains is a terrorist pirate, and the DHS doesn't need a warrant to tap your Internet and arrest you for downloading. Even if they don't get the charge to stick, anything you own that's electrically powered will never be returned.

Sony, claiming to be Guardians of Peace, posted the threats themselves to make the hackers look like terrorists, and generate more interest in a really bad movie.

Isn't that what you meant?