Archives: January 2025
5 years ago
January 2020
“I wonder how many more tens and hundreds of thousands will die needlessly before I can again freely visit the country of my birth. Socialism kills in Venezuela, like everywhere else it has been implemented. It kills regardless of local flavoring or whatever branding the individual dictator employs. It is beyond reason that this ideology, which has led to the deaths of more people than any other during modern history, which was thoroughly and tragically discredited in the 20th century, is still racking up body counts in 2019. May we finally learn this tragic lesson.”
José Cordeiro
“Socialism Killed My Father”
30 years ago
January 1995
“The Internet is that concatenation of linked computer networks that allows far-flung researchers, writers, and citizens instant or almost-instant access to the latest scientific research, weather data, or even just letters from friends. The National Science Foundation, which provided infrastructure support for this network of networks through its NSFNET program since 1985, has begun gradually eliminating such funding over the next five years. (It will continue to subsidize connection fees for specific institutional users.) Eliminating the NSF’s subsidy to the ‘backbone’ of the Internet (the infrastructure that links local service providers) has made some users nervous, NSF spokesperson Beth Gaston acknowledges. ‘There’s a sense of protectiveness on the part of Internet users, like “We have this, don’t mess with it.” With any change people are concerned. In this case the concerns are mostly unwarranted.'”
Brian Doherty
“Privatizing Internet”
40 ye
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