On 6/17/05, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you'll find that porn is the majority industry on the internet.
The Internet is, to zeroth order, useful only for the same four things that interactive TV is well suited for: video games, gambling, pornography, and pornographic gambling video games. Its first-order uses are cracker joyriding, make-money fast schemes, and hot chat leading to occasional sexual assignations (oddly parallel to the zeroth-order uses), plus ripping off copyrighted media and movement of large military science data sets. Usages that you wouldn't be ashamed to admit to your mother are second-order effects at best. These proportions are essentially unchanged since the opening of the Internet to general US undergraduate populations in the mid-80's. Ask anyone who's worked at an ISP or in a university IT department. This does not, of course, mean that I approve of any software on my systems downloading random _anything_ from the internet without my very explicit approval. It astonishes me that anyone opposes the instant removal of something so fundamentally stupid to include in the Debian "operating system". Cheers, - Michael