Given that the recent gutting of research and educational funding in the US, the US is rapidly heading away from that "first among nations" status. The future belongs to the Chinese, or any other country willing to do the hard work to develop renewable energy, fusion, AI etc etc.
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America, and the overall world as well, got where it was and will be again through Adam Smith and Ian Rand socio-economic Atlases, not through Orwellian '1984' / 'Big Brother' Woke Socialism's (tyrannical, dictatorial, centralizing Hitlerian and Marxist Fascist Communistic) bureaucracies . . . academic and governmental.
Это под вопросом. Под большим вопросом. В любой войне побеждает сильнейший, и в экономической войне - тоже. Китай уже давно "наступает Западу на пятки". Оплёл весь мир, как паутиной, сделал его зависимым от своих товаров. Вы сейчас даже многие виды вооружений не можете выпускать без китайских комплектующих. И команда Трампа это понимает. Только, я думаю, что уже поздно спохватились. Сначала сами создали себе проблему, а теперь пытаетесь "героически её преодолеть".
We got the Internet from ARPANet, a network created by a socialist research organization (DARPA.)
We got spread spectrum communication from a woke woman actress. No one took her seriously when she first invented it because she was obviously DEI. In fact when she presented it to the government for use in wartime, they laughed and just asked her for more pictures of herself that they could use to sell war bonds.
We got nuclear weapons from a socialist research effort (the Manhattan project.)
You get your electricity from a socialist publicly managed utility.
You drive on socialist roads, funded by the government.
Feel free to give all those things up, like Ayn Rand would want you to. That way you will not be relying on Big Brother woke socialism's tyrannical bureacracies.
(Fun fact - Ayn Rand called people who took government funding "parasites." But when she got older and needed help, she used Social Security and Medicare. I have a feeling you are exactly the same, and will justify your reliance on socialist entitlement programs with the usual excuses.)
That's actually a cult, not a court.
Idiot! My DARPA associated military department (of which I was a military staff member) and its civilian scientists, along with Bell Labs, Texas A & M, and others of the like both public and private, of the early 1980s developed the precursor scientist/science network that evolved into today's general Internet. I've been closely involved, in my military and university career compacities (before I retired from it all), in seemingly lightening swift scientific evolutions and revolutions since I was a teenager . . . since the early mid-1960s until my retirement.
I'm still involved as strictly an observer with a lot of experienced background in a variety of areas. And I'm a lifelong student in every area that interests me, starting before I ever started school (my parents noticed I could be homeschooled in reading, writing, and arithmetic, before I turned 3 years old (my father gave me a 1912 copyright high school history of the United States to read and keep before I ever turned 7 years old, a history which I finished in a year and still have, all of it but mostly in pieces, in my library))!
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And yet you come across as a bitter myopic teenager throwing a tantrum in your bedroom, having just come across some propaganda for things you know annoys your parents. I mean, it's not as though you actually understand what it is you rail against, only that it's a chance to rebel. Good for you! Get it out of your system, and then maybe you'll grow up a less disappointing character.
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Mine's better because I consulted a dictionary to verify the slang usage of 86.
Sorry about that, chief!
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You mean Stalinists like (chuckle) Robert Mueller? As I recall, there was no exoneration on possible obstruction of justice by Trump, just Mueller pointing out his hands were tied by the DOJ guideline that prohibits the federal indictment of a sitting president.
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We need more napkins.
It's Ayn Rand, btw, not "Ian." And she was a she.
Yes! Like the Northern Union appeared to be in rebellion against the secessionist Southern Confederacy after the election and ascension of Abraham Lincoln, we of MAGA are in rebellion against slavery to your totalitarianism of power elitist Utopian Woke-Socialism (your totalitarianism of Hitlerism and Marxism (of Antifa's Fascist-Communism and others . . . the increasingly criminal terrorist organizations and parties, and anti-Civilization barbarisms, being spread not only through America but through the world))!
But many technological developments in the defense sector, NASA, etc had those rival Marxists (like the USSR) to thank for triggering and driving such an arms race, space race, etc.
And capitalists eventually realized they could simply assimilate most of the movements spawned by critical theory (the academic efforts at work in trying to
Which is to say, progressives are still profit oriented and "enhance my career" ascending people (i.e, capitalists). They just recruit and adapt the evolving concepts of the (far) Left for their own purposes, rather than either totally succumbing to them or struggling in an everlasting war with that ideological polarity.
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We have a choice of two wars. Conquest of Space Frontier, like conquest of all space frontiers of the past is war to the max.
Then there is the equal but opposite war to the max, the war of the anti-frontier, the war of the concentration camp world isolated from the greater universe. The war of entropic, ultra-inertial, closed world systemic divisions within instead of the division out that brings a greater more smooth running unity within. Unplugging the exhaust pipe of life's combustion engine running cataclysmically, smoothing the local running of the engine.
The natural law is: That which cannot or will not divide to grow outwardly more benignly, will inexorably implode, as into a cosmic blackhole, to inexorably divide inwardly malignantly.
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The shoulders of giants that they perched upon were those of the US Military.
Circa 1968-9 a division with which I had limited communication took over a wing of one of the buildings under raven rock mountain (site R) and proceeded to build a massive computer. This was back in the days of vacuum tubes and the thing was extremely power hungry and created a lot of heat. Their computer was connected to other like machines in other underground sites as part of the national military communications command(I was more closely involved with the alternate national military communications command---the anmcc). And, it worked some of the time, but was down most of the time. Most likely due to programing errors.
Marvelous concept with lots of kinks that had to be worked out.
The local genius in charge was one of those guys who would show up wearing part of a uniform, and walk along staring at the ground and talking/muttering to himself. (Nice guy but a tad vague.)
It's not inherently good. But if one is going to extol the technological explosion of _X_ items and accomplishments during that era, then the Cold War looms in the background as an incentive for engendering and feeding fledgling industries that might otherwise have floundered due to timidity about business risks ("Science fiction is crazy stuff.").
Political antagonism is certainly not a universal provenance for such, as was demonstrated by progress in the years after the Cold War. But the once newbie enterprises were already born and well-developed in momentum by then.
- ARPANET: At the height of the Cold War, military commanders were seeking a computer communications system without a central core, with no headquarters or base of operations that could be attacked and destroyed by enemies thus blacking out the entire network in one fell swoop. ARPANET’s purpose was always more academic than military [facade wise], but, as more academic facilities connected to it, the network did take on the tentacle-like structure military officials had envisioned. The Internet essentially retains that form, although on a much larger scale.
Happy to be called an idiot by the likes of yourself! Means I'm doing something right.
You missed more than a decade there. The first idea for the ARPANet came from Robert Taylor, head of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, in 1967. Funded by the evil, socialist, marxist, woke government. His realization occurred when he had to use three separate, independent terminals to manage three computer projects at three facilities. Couldn't they all be integrated onto the same network?
The first ARPANet connection happened between Stanford and UCLA in 1969, utilizing computer science experts at both schools. Or as you call them, two tyrannical, dictatorial, centralizing Hitlerian and Marxist Fascist academic bureaucracies. To use your language, they wasted your taxpayer dollars to do a stunt that had no commercial value whatsoever.
Then in 1973 Vint Cerf at Stanford and Bob Kahn at DARPA (again, two evil, socialist, tax-dollar-wasting organizations) created the TCP/IP layers of what is the modern Internet. The documentation of these protocols also contained the first mention of the word "Internet."
Next in 1974 Yogen Dalal proposed what is now the modern network interface stack, explicitly separating TCP and IP protocols to allow more flexibility in network design. He was a PhD student at the evil marxist Hitlerian academic bureacracy that is Stanford.
In 1983, the DoD made the TCP/IP stack part of the official networking standard for the US Government. Yep, those evil socialist military types, wasting your tax dollars by creating a completely useless standard.
In 1986, the National Science Foundation, a disgusting socialist waste of taxpayer dollars, created the NSFNet for science researchers to use to communicate data back and forth. It used TCP/IP and so was compatible with ARPANet. Then in 1987 the combined ARPANet/NSFNet was opened to commercial users - and the Internet was born.
That's great! We can all be glad that you were not able to stop that evil, socialist, Hitlerian Internet, since today that benefits both you and countless other students who use it for research.
Details, details. The facts aren't important - it's his FEELINGS that matter.
So when will you gain the courage of your convictions and stop using the socialist totalitarian Hitleresque fascist communist developed Internet?
Or are you just another MAGA hypocrite?
Разве не Эйзенхауэр издал указ о создании ARPA в 1957 году, с которого и началось создание интернета?
Прикольно наблюдать за лилипутами, когда они спорят о том, с какой стороны правильно бить яйца.