-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 June 2002 6:19 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> You ain't seen nothin' yet. Here's one about MS's new Palladium > project that showed up over the weekend: > http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp Now, this is really scary. Bill > gets world domination, Senator Fritz can satisfy his very good > friends at Disney, the RIAA gets what they want, the feds get > Carnivore back doors, the list goes on... > -- cmg These things fail - as they always have done - because those who propose them never seem to realise that, for them to work, all existing items of electronics would eventually have to be replaced. That is both financially and politically impossible in Western democratic countries, never mind anywhere else - there are better (and known to be better) things to spend the money on in schools than replacing equipment which still has much useful life in it, for example. I suspect that, to the proposers, £600 or £700 for a new machine is nothing, and that they would be surprised to hear that theirs was the financial situation of a _small minority_ of people. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9GBq9Cv59vFiSU4YRAjUCAJ92any6K9xU99PKgI+4rv2/XwkJCACbBssg gIYMei5VJ6f/mQvyuN7Dzqk= =VJFw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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