Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 9:38 PM + 3/26/04, Justin wrote: R. A. Hettinga (2004-03-26 12:41Z) wrote: At 7:20 AM + 3/26/04, Justin wrote: Those nasty latin words are ceteris paribus. Thank you. On a network full of experts the price of error is bandwidth.

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-26 Thread Justin
R. A. Hettinga (2004-03-26 12:41Z) wrote: At 7:20 AM + 3/26/04, Justin wrote: Those nasty latin words are ceteris paribus. Thank you. On a network full of experts the price of error is bandwidth. There's no reason to get all sarcastic. For all I knew you could have unintentionally

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-26 Thread Anonymous via panta
Harmon Seaver wrote: If a member of a club, to which you belong, commits an act of violence, are you liable for that act? No, but if the club, as an entity, does such, you should be. If the corporation pollutes, all and sundry owners and employees should be equally liable. Or maybe

Re: corporate vs. state

2004-03-26 Thread mfidelman
On 26 Mar 2004, Frog wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote: If a voluntary association injures me, Associations - corporate or otherwise - are abstract, intangible entities. They don't perform actions. People do. Corporations act as legal persons - they can enter into contracts, own assetts,

corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what has been described as Crypto-Anarchy. Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one

RE: corporate vs. state, TD's education

2004-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Ah Variola...do I detect a wee bit of Knee-jerk in your otherwise consistently iconoclastic views? Let's take a looksee... Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint.