Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Don't take away my internets.
On the other hand, isn't all that also available in the library?

That's right, Alan; throw your shoe into the machine. That will make it all better! Buggy whip manufacturers of the world unite! You have nothing lose but your standard of living!

That would be one for the "no" column, then? I need to forward you some of the pamphlets on roof thatching as future career that I have been looking at.

Bloody hell, cm's right. Close the libraries, they have all this information, too.

Libraries USED to have alot of this info. Now it's in the lockup reference section most places I have seen.
The Esteemable Provider of Hot Tunes and Hotter Women, Flea, is right. If we shut down the internet it'll be a major hit to the global economy. Inventory would revert to the old school models which were much less efficient.

But there has to be something that can be done(like putting tracking code into the site so we can trace it back to who looked at it----something civil liberties purists have been going apoplectic about).

And it isn't just the 'net either. Terrs hide in plain sight by using cell phones(stolen, cloned, or legit), text messaging, blackberry, instant messaging, the whole kit and kaboodle. Abigail Esman has writen about this a bit. The 21st century seems to be the 5th gen warfare fighters playground(check http://tdaxp.blogspirit.com to get an idea of what I'm talking about).

Are you saying that <i>WE'VE ALREADY SOLD OUR SOULS TO THE ROBOTS!!!</i>

The only answer is going back to the horse and buggy. If it wasn't for automobiles how did the terrorists pick up their equipment? If it wasn't for planes terrorists wouldn't have been able to destroy the WTC. In fact, it's safer just to do away with sky scrapers so that terrorists in planes won't have anything to hit. Yessss. Perfect.

Mary Shelley was write! We have learned nothing from Icarus! Will somebody - please - <i>think of the children!!!</i>

Umm. "Right". Just disregard anything else I type today.

It could not be shut down any more than ham radio could be shut down. There will always be some nutters hooking up their networks to form a greater whole.

Unless you're going to have guys driving around detecting power usage and RF emission levels, breaking into houses that spike a little higher than their neighbours.

In which case, find out the temperature at which CAT-5 cable burns, and send a book advance to Ray Bradbury.

I forgot to mention you can actually make a decent living as a roof thatcher in England. I have friends in the Cotswolds who live in true Hobbit stylee with a exposed timber living room ceiling, 16th century hearth and triumphant thatched roof. That last costs a fortune to maintain.

A quick price for the job:

"On the cost front thatchers work in 'squares' (around 10ft by 10ft) costing between £600 and £800 pounds per square."

Not sure what buggy whips are going for these days.

I say we jump into the thatching trade. Better still lets produce an info-mercial and push it as new age meets green living with more with a Tony Robbins style than Mr. Green Jeans - speaking about "peak thatching performance" and getting personal power though getting the <i>Thatching Edge</i><small>^tm</small>. Then people will pay us $100 a pop for a tape on how to thatch including how to foist thatching on your suburban neighbourhood and <i>then</i> $500 a pop on how to make a tape about foisting thatching on your neighbourhood.

I sold my soul to the robots the day I bought my blackberry.