On Aug 31, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> If people had calculated that way, the Internet
> would have never been created.
>
You do know that the internet was largely created from a military
experiment in "survivable communications" - how the generals can
talk to their troops if half the wires between them are now
radioactive holes in the ground?

After that, we have assorted amounts of fraud, greed, and etc,
leading to a stock market bubble pop that was by no means harmless
to a lot of people...

I like the internet.  The internet has been very good to me.  But
it isn't a very shiny example of how innovation ought to happen.

BillW
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