Sounds like someone's cult is hellbent on evangelizing to this place. You've been shilling this cult ideology here for going on three years, now.
With absolutely no personal growth or response indicating you understand the people here or their concerns.
Maybe you should go discuss martyrdom with the muslim faith? They are really behind that whole self sacrifice thing.
If DNS or DHCP go down, pretty much none of today's websites will work at all. It is all built into the server backend and page code to resolve using it.
Most modern servers are not even what we think of as a server as a machine. Just up the highway from me is a giant IBM and microsoft datacenter. It's in the middle of nowhere but they all sit right on the main fiber bus which used to interconnect the ICBM arrays.
These datacenters lease out their servers to websites and entire web suites. When Valve goes to launch a new game, they lease additional server space on these datacenters, or some service they contract with handles that for them. Google contracts with these datacenters. "Google.com" is spread across thousands of physical locations with control protocols determining which physical address you get connected to and its own backend handling data retrieval if not locally cached.
If DNS were to go down, we would literally have to go back to Web 1.0 type stuff. Which wouldn't necessarily be bad, but nothing like what we are used to in most of the clearnet would be possible.
Indeed.
What happens when the government defaults? Out of whose pocket/funds is the military paid?
Somewhat. The power of the President is still greater than any other single office in the nation and, further, it has been expanded well beyond what was initially apportioned, for better and worse.
It is also one of the only offices which can act with unilateral authority and has defacto command over the military.
There are two things which chiefly govern a nation. The process by which people get paid. The hierarchy commanding/authorizing force. A standing army was feared for good reason and the Presidency feared also for good reason. However, it is that dangerous situation created over the centuries which afforded a unique opportunity to play the reverse card.
Perhaps I am a weird one - and by no means am I thriving as I had envisioned when I began adulthood - but I see all of these things as a means to an end. What do I really want to do? Have a house and property paid for that I can raise a family in and have family at for holidays and such. Big and grandiose would be fun, but at this point getting what I have sorted is good enough for now.
I would also love to spend my day programming computers, millng/printing designs and prototypes, etc. Working it out so that was how I made my living would be great - I think.
A career is kind of ancillary to all of that - the means to an end. At one point, I wanted to work for Northrop-Grumman, be able to work on advanced aircraft designs, etc - but at this stage I simply don't have the political capital to place myself and absolutely no desire to play the politics of such a game. And, realistically, my desire to start up and design my own defense contractor is not something permissible in the current climate - again being beyond the political capital I have or can acquire pending some form of revolution.
The career for me is not the goal - it is the tool. Or perhaps more to say the contract of the tool that is my skills and knowledge.
Take that advice as what you will, as one could easily make the argument I am wasted potential or only living up to a fraction of what I could be - but I have seen how many people with careers behave, and I want none of that. It's a world of people more concerned with advancing by making others around them look stupid rather than being, themselves, exceptional.
Just because it's the Chinese doesn't mean it isn't the Jews.
Not hard to track down who financed "The Great Leap Forward." All of that construction took capital. All of that capital was invested in an idea by someone.
But to get a return on investment, one needs capital movement. When the loans default, the government changes. Then, Nation, Inc.