Or used to cut citizens off from current events.  Sound familiar?

I agree (intra-USA only)...but say in the case of a massive cyber attack aimed at the Pentagon etc., maybe something like that would be necessary...like unplugging the phone when being plagued by telemarketers? I don't know enough about it to express an educated opinion...just a thought.

*BTW, not all flights were grounded. The day after 9/11, vital medical flights continued (organ transplants and the like). One such flight to Seattle, WA (heart transplant) was grounded by the USAF and allowed to continue by helicopter.

 Good one Bonehead.

"There's nothing more permanent than a temporary measure." - One Smart Cookie.

*Note to Mothership - Starkers knows too much.  Preparing bunker for human in Blue Mountain base.

One man with the power to shut down the internet to an entire country.  Scary as hell.  What's next, the television and radio news will be government controlled?  General suspension of habius corpus instead of the power of such that Homeland Security can already invoke.  Dis-arming of the civil population?  We've seen all of this before both right wing and left about 60-70 years ago, lest we doom ourselves to forget history and therefore allow it to happen again, only this time in our country.

The phrese is "We the people" not we the government.................IMHO

It's a conspiracy!  A gov't plot to take us back to the Stone-Age... to save us from ourselves.  Yup, that's it, we have become too advanced and reliant on technology.... techologies with the potential to harm the planet, wipe out the human race.  So, for our own sakes, the internet will be intermittantly turned off in ever increasing cycles until we have learned to live without it

The next obvious step is TV to isolate us from disturbing World news - enjoyable but nefarious entertainments that cause us to become fat and lazy couch potatoes - then radio so we are not consumed with devils music and jitterbug-like dance crazes.

Yes, we have become too dependent on technologies and consumerism, goods that make us soft and unable to truly fend for ourselves without them.  So in its wisdom, government will make hunter-gatherers out of us all and teach us by necessity to survive using only the basics nature has provided us. 

Motor vehicles will soon become a thing of the past... so harden your butts or get used to saddle sores. Telephones and other electronic communication devises will also phased out as well, so start training your carrier pigeons now... and watch out for the pony express because motorised mailmen will be no more.

Now you may all be sceptical, but ancient prophecies speak of a nuclear holocaust that reverts us back to the Stone-Age, and those wisest in government have decided to take us there without the davastation that would leave us glowing in the dark for centuries.

Well I dunno abouut you people, but I've ordered an abacus and my communicative drums arrived yesterday... plus I'm learnin' smoke signals cos a couple of people I know are hearing impaired and won't be able to get batteries for their hearing aids.

What kind of moron came up with the idea to hook up the powergrid (and other critical infrastructure) on a public network? It's those idiots that are a threat to national security, not the hackers.

Yes, I believe you are correct, but he knew it was safe since he invented the internet.

Lets see angus, Politician, hot air, tempreture goes up, global warming.  I do believe you may be on to something here.

starkers! You sound like a malcontent to me. You should have more faith in your government. Our governments know better than we do what is good for us. Just do as your told and they will keep you safe and happy.

My f*ckn' nose just grew an inch!

Malcontented doesn't cut it... try utterly disgusted and entirely lacking faith in government.  Every day here in Queensland (Oz), we hear of yet anothe gov't scandal and of gov't corruption/cronyism.... and then there's all the gov't advertising claiming how their intiiatives are creating jobs... when in fact many gov't initiatives are causing jobs to be lost.

And in Canberra (Federal Gov't), the opposition and gov't bicker like school children over just about everything... rather than work to improve our lot.  Our ABC televises parliament question time... and to be frank, I've seen better and more intelligible behaviour from the kids at the local kindy.

Nope, politicians are there only to further their own agendas, feather their own nests, line their own pockets.

With a whopper that BIG... it's a wonder it didn't grow a foot or two.Keep telling porkys like that and you'll have to extend the pedals and steering wheel... cos yer enlarged nose 'll mean having to drive from the back seat... even the trunk.

That is closer to the truth than you may think... but not with/just with Gore.  Our idiot Prime Minister is trying to introduce a carbon emmision scheme that will serve only to make the power companies richer by increasing our electricity costs by about 20%.  Power costs here have already increased here in Queensland by 30% in 3 years... with another 50% increase being touted for june 2010. 

Add to that the cost of Rudd's carbon emission scheme and that puts the overall increase at 100% over just 4 years... which is considerably greater than the current rate of inflation/actual costs to the power companies.

Will this scheme actually reduce global warming (as claimed)???  Pig's arse it will... there's no such thing as global warming as a result of mans impact on the planet. Earth has a history of 'natural' climate change, sometimes in the extreme, and the whole global warming thing is a money making ruse to make the rich richer... and Rudd is a gullible fool gambling with our money.

This time next year, I'll be sitting to pee because I won't be able to afford to turn the light on to see standing up

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