Bugged by US spying, EU may sever ties with American internet providers

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42. We seem to have similar backgrounds

And I wholeheartedly agree with you. I make it a point to never try to lord over people with technical speak--it's just a way to try to intimidate people into shutting up. I will, however, go on a technical attack when I see someone doing this, eg, claiming that it's impossible to span-port and capture a provider's entire feed at a peering point. That's trivial to accomplish, so long as you have physical access. But I only engage and take down those who act as though they have special insight that you just wouldn't understand because its too technical. Why do something like this? We all specialize. Doctors and nurses could make me feel like an idiot in a medical conversation-but they don't. I'm not cool with knowledge-of-tech is used as a cudgel, especially given that this knowledge is often very flawed.