At 07:20 PM 4/11/04 +, Justin wrote:
>Major Variola (ret) (2004-04-11 16:42Z) wrote:
>
>> Blacknet is a robust archive for words, immune to force
>> (by State or private actors), but merely words.
>
>With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all
that,
>I think that cypherpu
At 12:58 PM -0700 4/11/04, Eric Cordian wrote:
>So - what happened to Tim? Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired
>Engineer now?
Crusty retired pervert is more like it.
..and, no, I don't want to know what the crust is made of...
:-/
Cheers,
RAH
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R. A. Hettinga
The Inter
Eric Cordian wrote...
"Can I be the list's new Crusty Retired
Engineer now?"
Why, did you retire recently?
-TD
From: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On Needing Killing
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
Justin writes:
> Wit
Major Variola (ret) (2004-04-11 16:42Z) wrote:
> Blacknet is a robust archive for words, immune to force
> (by State or private actors), but merely words.
With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that,
I think that cypherpunks, and people in general, give far too little
Justin writes:
> With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that,
> I think that cypherpunks, and people in general, give far too little
> respect to words, as if words are a vague, unimportant, and remote link
> in the chain of causation of acts or failure-to-acts. I don'
At 05:38 AM 4/11/04 -0400, An Metet wrote:
>> And the responsibles need killing.
>
>No, they don't.
>
>There are two alternative solutions to the problem of restrictions on
>information flow, or more generally restrictions on any sort of
voluntary
>and cooperative activity. One is to use force to
Major Variola writes:
> I don't know about your anecdote, but Mr. May's original point
> was that the law *requires* companies to forget. Which is
> of course an illegitimate intrusion of the state into private affairs.
>
> And the responsibles need killing.
No, they don't.
There are two altern
An Metet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This stuff should be Cypherpunks 101.
..along with Assassination Politics. I've always taken "X needs
killing" to be a statement to the effect that same had earned himself
an AP-style contract, if only such a thing existed.
While your point is good, inasmuch
