Yeah, I know, pot-kettle-black. :-).
For those who *don't* know, and it seems like there a lot who don't these days, "Lance" Detweiller is a famous net.loon, then from Colorado, who infested the cypherpunk list in its early years with paranoiac screeds about evils of anonymity and pseudonymity. He was more or less kicked off the list by court-order -- we'll pause here for the irony impaired to get the joke -- in 1994/5 or so. Googling "cypherpunks" and "detweiller" will keep you entertained, or at least emeticized, for hours. Now, Lance, in his current guise as "vznuri" (V.Z. Nuri = "visionary", get it? <hyuk!>, or, as Lance would put it, "tee hee"), uncorks a screed on money and the evils of fractional reserve banking. He also seems to throw in a gas-law or two, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Labor Theory of Value is in there somewhere, for good measure. I would have missed it because I've killfiled him, but Leitl zinged it to the cpunx-news list, and I'm a sucker for punishment, I guess. At least he had the sense to put it in pdf and stick it on the web. In the old days, he'd have zinged the whole damn thing to cypherpunks, or someplace. ;-). It makes me wonder what Washington University in St. Louis has come to these days, and the "6-week compulsively" bit I have no problem believing at all. Here's hoping he's taken a bath since. Sigh... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
