... and burn some books, Mein Fuhrer.
This article by John Linton, CEO of Australian ISP Exetel, first appeared on his personal blog and is published on ZDNet.com.au with his permission.
commentary We, along with all other ISPs I assume, received the 'courtesy' email asking us to visit the fourth Reich's official sub-site where we could find the details of how to participate in Herr Krudd's and Obersturmfuhrer Conroy's scheme to purge the Fatherland of the filth emanating from the diseased brains of the untermenscen.
I skim read it to the point that my understanding is that Herr Rudd's Schutz-Staffel has drawn up an initial list of the undesirable sites that he wishes consigned to the flames as a first pass and will add to the list as further sub-human filth is discovered in the future.
His object in to cleanse the Reich of anything he designates as undesirable so that the kinder can safely be indoctrinated in the preferred ways that he deems any citizen of the Fatherland should think and act.
Towards the end of one of the 'documents' I seemed to gain the impression that there was a shuttered and locked goods wagon with Exetel's name on it waiting at a disused railway station, which — as almost all of Sydney's railway stations under Gauleiter's Carr, Iemma and now Rees 'stewardships' are now disused — was hard to pin down exactly, attached to a train leading to a recently renovated 'camp site' outside Wagga if we didn't do exactly "vot you are tolt".
His object in to cleanse the Reich of anything he designates as undesirable so that the kinder can safely be indoctrinated in the preferred ways that he deems any citizen of the Fatherland should think and act.
Not wishing to make the acquaintance of Dr Irmried Eberl (while not ideal — I would prefer my internal organs to remain arranged in their current ways) and having as much freedom in my daily work as I can currently cope with, I'm inclined not to be as 'independent spirited' (and for the pedants — yes — I know I'm combining the commandant of one camp with the gate sign of another) as I would usually be when confronted with the sadistic madness of bully boys and psychotics.
Following Fuhrer Krudd's recent invasions of ABC Learning and his breathtaking Anschluss of the four major banks it just seems one more step on the way of creating more leibensraum for der Fuhrer's grand vision for a greater Australia and according to a recent poll (which some people say is actually independent of der Fuhrer's personal supervision — though I'm not sure how that's possible as it seems to indicate that some people don't agree, which is beyond an acceptable standard of conformity) that 63 per cent of us are in total agreement with our glorious leader's visions — or maybe we just smoke the same weed?
Enough of such disloyal thoughts — wait a minute — is that the sound of a heavy military truck screeching to a halt and the sound of jackboots on the drive?
Bear with me while I carefully open the black-out curtains a 'crack' — whew — no, thank goodness it's just the next door neighbour's kids quietly running out in their carefree way, looking a picture of smartness in their Krudd Youth uniforms to get their lift to school in someone's recently fully armoured 4 x 4 — apparently the vehicle of choice on the rutted and flooded unpaved roads Mosman women are forced to navigate every day of their lives.
So back to what can be done in these totalitarian times by a small company struggling for survival under the burdens imposed by the ever-increasing interference by the State in every aspect of what used to be our lives. We appear to have two options:
- Ignore the sheer stupidity of this latest piece of doctrinaire madness from the Labor Loonies and put up with whatever the outcome is as best we can?
- Attempt to participate in showing these morons that this is one castle in the air too far — even for total idiots?
It seems the words 'proxy' and 'P2P' are incomprehensible to the brain-dead stupid Stephen and the even loonier Krudd, so the trick is to find a way of getting through to the wads of cotton wool that occupy the space between their ears, where other people have a grey, jelly-like substance.
Steve believes that a silver bullet like 'null-routing' would demonstrate that (forgetting about proxies, P2P etc) der Fuhrer's dreams of invading and then controlling cyberspace can become a reality with far less loss of men and tanks (oops, sorry, money) than his current wild ideas about super-filter hardware and massive slowdowns in transmission speeds.
We will see if we can easily demonstrate this to them at no cost to us or our users, in some vain hope that they will eventually grab at such a straw to save millions of useless deaths on the Russian front — I mean tens of millions of money wasted on slowing down every Australian's internet experience.
Come to think of it, maybe they aren't as stupid as I think they are — maybe they DO realise they can't stop the internet from giving us access to Radio Britain's subversion so they've moved to plan B — if you can't stop it completely then at least slow it down and 'garble' the signal?
Now where did I put my swastika armband?
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...use German, at least attempt to spell correctly. FAIL.