Re: The Crypto State

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
rather disappointing and lacking in his usual clarity and rigour. Hayek's "Constitution of Liberty" is an excellent, well known but rather long exposition of his form of libertarian-conservatism. Nozick's "Anarchy State and Utopia" is an interesting defence of the minima

Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk [ Samuelson-bashing ]

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
e name of only acceptable economic textbook I ever found. But it was written by the same author as "TANSTAFL" a 1970s pro-market view of the economics of pollution. Henry Hazlitt's "The Failure of the "New Economics" is probably the most effective cure for belief in &qu

Re: Amtrak & The War On Drugs

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
don't really see why it still should exist from an economic perspective. -- 1024/D9C69DF9 steve mynott [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a unix user to show you how it's done. --scott adams

Gibberish was Re: Right to anon. speech online upheld in US district court

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Mynott
shark baiting > gizmo. What you gonna do with the rest of your worthlessing wasting > a mindless on bad grass distributed by NORML to cheapskate > short-attention-spanning purveyists. > > Bamford tree-cuts 400 pages to explain NSA's billion-megawatt baiting > of the dimbu

Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Mynott
ns that can be measured or reduced to Excel spreadsheets rather we are rational thinking, acting agents. The methodology of the physical sciences isn't suitable for the social sciences. Further it leads to a fallacy amongst engineers and the technically minded that you can "engi