On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:33:21 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0400 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > a) There exist providers that are willing to take money from scum. > > b) We won't get rid of the scum until we admit (a) is true. > > I mostly agree with you -- but I get very worried about who defines > "scum". Consider the following cases, which I will assert are not very > far-fetched:
For the sake of discussion, I was calling "scum" "any entity that your morals say you shouldn't accept money from, but your accountant says you should".... What that makes your accountant... is another discussion entirely :) However, I *do* agree with the problem of "scum with politico-economic leverage"....
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