[freenet-chat] The Coming Storm

2002-01-05 Thread Kevin Atkinson
When I first read the slashdot article "Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions" (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/21/155221) I cried, which is really saying something as I do not cry often. And since them I have been having a wide variety of fixed emotions. But I think it settled down to

[freenet-chat] The Coming Storm

2002-01-05 Thread kre...@juno.com
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 23:11:12 -0500 (EST) Kevin Atkinson writes: > When I first read the slashdot article "Lawrence Lessig Answers Your > Questions" (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/21/155221) I I have no net connection, at least not till pay day, so I can't see this or any other internet

[freenet-chat] deep philosophical question

2002-01-05 Thread kre...@juno.com
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:26:48 +1300 David McNab writes: > IMO, there should be laws passed that all unsolicited promotional > material have the string 'SPAM:' at the start of the subject field, > to > allow easy filtering. MSN does this, I'm sure of it, but only for messages that come from places

[freenet-chat] The Coming Storm

2002-01-05 Thread Josh
> I'm even beginning to wonder whether or > not certain individuals in our government > KNEW of this attack before it > occured and were just waiting to grab at the > chance to take away our freedoms. Do you really think our government would allow people to be killed, just so they can pass legisl

[freenet-chat] The Coming Storm

2002-01-05 Thread Josh
> How the hell do you get the average person > to understand the full magnitude of what the Internet means? The problem is that the internet means different things to different people. Just like a highway means different things to different people. Some see a highway as a way ruin a perfectly goo