Re: What is a cypherpunk?
-- On 6 Feb 2005 at 19:18, D. Popkin wrote: Yes, but Big Brother governments are not the only way such wisdom gets imposed. Bill Gates came close to imposing it upon all of us, and if it hadn't been for Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, we might all be suffering under that yoke today. There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did. If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will attack you. That is the difference between private power and government power. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IQOesrdAqVhLdsZtGiFJzVPm4eKemvE0rvMznIRG 4e37sO5HcxzRajhvHvVBldBgvI0YdW75A0FNQwWi9
Re: What is a cypherpunk?
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:09:56AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did. Yes. Corporate lawyers descending upon your ass, because you -- allegedly -- are in violation of some IP somewhere. See you in court. If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will attack you. If you ignore a kkkorporate cease desist, men with guns will get you, too. Eventually. Corporations can play the system, whether they hire bandits, or use the legal system, or buy a politician to pass a law. That is the difference between private power and government power. There is no difference. Both are coercive. Some of the rules are good for you, some are good for the larger assembly of agents, some are broken on arrival. We need smarter agents. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpua4Q2lFRed.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks
How 'bout laying siege to May's compound as a Cypherpunk 'team-building' excersize? -TD From: J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Re: RSA Conference, and BA Cypherpunks Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:19:30 -0600 (CST) On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote: Once again, the RSA Conference is upon us, and many of the corrospondents on these lists will be in San Francisco. I'd like to see if anyone is interested in getting together. We've done this before. Yeah, but can we eat food, drink beer, shoot drugs and screw expensive hookers at Tim May's compound? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF Quadriplegics think before they write stupid pointless shit...because they have to type everything with their noses. http://www.tshirthell.com/
