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>Declan, Ronda:

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>C'mon now . . . you're killin' me . . .
>
>What amazes me is that anyone could think that the "government" and the 
>"market" are really separate at all . . . in any instrumental way when it 
>comes to "strategic" technologies . . . like the Internet.  
>
>All of this endless thrashing of "Taste Better" vs. "Less Filling" on nettime 
>is getting truly hilarious.
>
>It was November 1998 when it became the official posture of the United States 
>"government" that the FOUR "battlegrounds" were AIR, GROUND, SEA and 
>CYBERSPACE  . . . and this was after a 30+ year "Revolution in Military 
>Affairs" which has totally recast what was described in 1959 by Eisenhower as 
>the "Military Industrial Complex" . . . just at the moment that Daniel Bell 
>was introducing the term "Post-Industrial" at the Salzburg Seminar in 
>Austria, informing the informed that the "industrial" was no longer driving 
>things.  Military or otherwise.
>
>Doesn't anyone read their Toffler? Or, their Boulding?  "War and Anti-War." 
><g>
>
>It's long been the "Military Information Complex" and the intimate 
>association between "government" and the "market" (when it comes to 
>"strategic" technologies, like the Internet) is the principle reason for the 
>existence of the "Dulles Corridor" . . . not that incredible engineering 
>school at Georgetown.  (And, why was General Al "I'm in Control Here" Haig on 
>the board of AOL for all those years . . . anyway?)
>
>Who do you think brought the suit against Microsoft?  The "market"?  The DoJ? 
> The FCC?  Or, the Pentagon?
>
>Those technologies which are essential to the "national interest" are ALWAYS 
>under the control of the "government" . . . whose job it is to safeguard the 
>"national interest."  Today, that means the Internet.  (Pay attention to Dave 
>Farber when he speaks about "security matters" . . . or, if you prefer, stay 
>confused . . .)
>
>When DoJ Anti-Trust head Joel Klein admonished the Supreme Court (as quoted 
>on page A1 of today's NYTimes) that the Microsoft case was directly a concern 
>of the "national interest," he wasn't speaking about market-share in the 
>browser "market," fer crissakes.  When Janet Reno used the term "revolution" 
>FIVE times in her speech launching the Microsoft suit, she wasn't speaking 
>about a song by the Beatles, fer double-crissakes.
>
>The "government" IS the "market" -- as prime-customer, as standard-setter, as 
>"classified-briefer," as revolving-door employer, as research-granter and as 
>HAMMER-when-you-ignore-them -- in all cases of technologies which are 
>considered "strategic" and in the "national interest."  
>
>Like super-computers.  Or, lasers.  Or, space.  Or, energy.  Or, the Internet.
>
>Face it . . . or it will one day be in your face . . . just ask Bill Gates . 
>. .
>
>Best,
>
>Mark Stahlman


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