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Kofi will be deeply concerned:

You’d think that of all places that should have speedy and reliable Internet access, a United Nations summit on the Internet would be high on the list.

Not quite. The organizers of the summit, held at a luxury resort hotel on the Athenian Riveria not far from the city center, couldn’t even provide a working Internet connection.

Posting may be slight this afternoon; I’m a little dizzy after reading the words “speedy”, “reliable”, and “United Nations” in the one item.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/02/2006 at 08:48 PM

  1. The UN.  Is there anything they can’t f*ck up?

    Posted by DocMike on 2006 11 02 at 08:52 PM • permalink

  2. Hold on, wasn’t the Internet invented by Al Gore the US Military. I see a vast right wing conspiracy.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 02 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  3. #2 - I quite agree. Webdiary and the UN both struck by ‘technical difficulties’ within days of each other? Don’t tell me that’s coincidence!

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 02 at 09:13 PM • permalink

  4. Hey man, getting big outfits on the Internet is what I do.

    Think I could scam a trip to Greece?  All expenses, $500/hour, tickets for the wife and dog…and I’m there.

    Posted by trainer on 2006 11 02 at 09:15 PM • permalink

  5. ...I’m a little dizzy after reading the words “speedy”, “reliable”, and “United Nations” in the one item.

    And I’m deeply concerned over the UN’s concern about the internet.

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 11 02 at 09:16 PM • permalink

  6. That’s what they get for clogging up all the tubes with their nonsense.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 02 at 09:25 PM • permalink

  7. I’m a little dizzy after reading the words “speedy”, “reliable”, and “United Nations” in the one item.

    It’s not that far out of the realm of possibility.

    “United Nations peacekeepers made a speedy deployment into a 13-year-old Congolese girl’s vagina, according to reliable sources.”

    See?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 02 at 09:36 PM • permalink

  8. rinardman:  As you should be.  The UN and the ITU would love to turn the internet into restricted-speech, BBC-outlook cash machine for their own enrichment and control.

    Posted by cosmo on 2006 11 02 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  9. Here’s another UN word association one rarely sees - ‘decisive’.  How about ‘focussed’.  What about ‘determined’.  I bet a ‘resolute’ UN will make you weak at the knees. And suck on ‘single-minded’ and see what happens.

    Now go have a bex and a good lie down.

    Posted by stickit on 2006 11 02 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  10. The UN’s new motto:

    “We Couldn’t Get Laid in a Whorehouse”

    Posted by David Crawford on 2006 11 02 at 10:21 PM • permalink

  11. Ah, the fabled efficiency and keen appreciation of cutting edge technology needed for solving the world’s problems, displayed by the aspirant world government.  George Soros, call your office.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 11 02 at 11:40 PM • permalink

  12. Expect a motion condemning Israel any second now…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 11 03 at 12:48 AM • permalink

  13. No, just the Zionet.

    Posted by mojo on 2006 11 03 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  14. Actually the UN HQs in Vienna and Geneva have excellent wireless internet access available (I don’t know about UN New York as I haven’t worked there).

    The UN is usually pretty good at organising talk-fests, while people here will probably hate me saying this, not everything they do is useless.

    Posted by Russell on 2006 11 03 at 02:51 AM • permalink

  15. the cuban representative at the UN summit got absolutely smacked down.

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6131854.html


    With that preface, let me answer the question about what percentage of Cubans are connected to the Internet. Remember that the Internet is an end-to-end model. Zero percent of Cubans are connected to the Internet. The Cuban government operates an incumbent phone company, which maintains a Web cache. Cubans who wish to use the Internet browse the government Web cache. They do not have unrestricted access to the Internet.

    Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2006 11 03 at 04:16 AM • permalink

  16. #14, Russell,

    Whatever “good” (and I don’t concede that point) is far outweighed by the corruption and death they cause throughout the world. 

    #15, drscroogemcduck,

    The UN, and other totalitarian entities, would have the whole world behave on the Cuban model.  The internet would be just like Pravda, et al; i.e., nothing but another organ for propaghanda.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 11 03 at 04:28 AM • permalink

  17. #16 saltydog,

    I did not mean to imply that the UN do “good” in any absolute sense - just that talk-fests are one of the things that they do that are usually well organised (the papers are in order and on time, the internet connection works, you can get a coffee, find people, find translators etc).

    Posted by Russell on 2006 11 03 at 05:17 AM • permalink

  18. #12 & #13 Dan and mojo beat me to it.

    Prime example of UN efficiency - just two months after the war in Lebanon, they’re going to be ready to issue a report on the use of uranium by Israel in the fighting.  Never been such blinding speed in all the history of Um-Shmum (except when it comes to passing resolutions blaming Israel for .....)

    Russell - do you by any chance ghost as speechwriter (I almost said gag-writer) for John Kerry?

    Posted by rampisadmukerjee on 2006 11 03 at 10:06 AM • permalink

  19. #9 After that I need an E.C.G….

    Posted by crash on 2006 11 03 at 10:54 AM • permalink

  20. Propaghanda?  My dear Aunt Gussy.  I don’t know where that h came from.

    #17, Russell,

    Oh, I agree.  The UN know how to talk.  And talk.  And talk.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 11 03 at 01:51 PM • permalink

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