Hell no Obama!

Soriku wants to start a mafia confirmed. I'm so the guy with the lizard!

Hey it's not a stupid idea to have a big switch that shuts off the interent.  It's a smart idea.  Assuming you plan to take over the country and want to disrupt the most useful form of communication for people that would be against you taking over their country.

This, my friends, is what I am afraid of. Too many things coming to a head... I don't like the smell of the air here, it is becoming foul with the stench of an Onerous Government.

Don't you all realize that the Government is just trying to bring us all together?

If they shut down the internet, what is everyone going to do? We've made all sorts of friends, groups, and events online, so what will we do when they're taken from us?

We'll all start to meet in real life, socialize, and have fun with each other and throw parties and whatnot.

It seriously would be awesome to get this entire site in one big area (that can be sectioned off into smaller areas like "Sony" "Nintendo" "Microsoft" "Sales" "Off Topic") and all meet each other, hang out, and have a crapload of fun hanging out and being with each other.

Theoretically, at least.

It's really the only thing i can think of... I mean I can't even imagine what they would consider a good reason to shut down the internet.

I mean.  Big disaster.  Do we really want to cut down one of the biggest lines of communication?  I mean hell lots of people contact only through the interent now.  Shut down the internet and you cut off communication with those people who may or may not be dead.

Terrorist attack.  Ok.  The attack happened aready.  So... what's the use of shutting it down afterwords?  So they can't brag?  The internet is a big terrorist and extremist gathering spot, but shutting it down in a reactionary way makes no sense.

People hacking into our grids and shutting stuff off... can't we just specifically disconnect those sysetms from the grids... from the places manually.  Call them up and say "Hey your stuff is about to go down, unplug you interenet."

It seems really unneeded.

Just the US servers I would think.

oh, thats ok then, they can do what they like over there, but if they touch my internet, there will be hell to pay!

I agree with you. I am not surprised that Repblican Olympia Snowe is the co-author... She is a sellout. Now time to *puts on tin foil hat* ^_^ Combine this with Obama's "Volunteer Force" that is going to be just as armed, etc. and the fear caused by certain actions in this country, and you have a receipe for a "very tense situation" in the near future.

If I had ridiculous amounts of cash, I would be so tempted.