At 02:16 PM 8/15/2002 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
History shows that powerful governments almost always attempt to crush
independence movements with brutal force. They do not want us slaves to
escape their plantation.
>Let me phrase my question more optimistically. Why will the future of
Kenneth C. Griffith wrote:
>>Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography +
>>weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one
>>has realized it yet.
Steve Schear wrote:
>Yes, this follows directly from "The Sovereign Individual"
Ken wrote
At 07:40 PM 8/10/2002 -0400, Kenneth C. Griffith wrote:
>Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography +
>weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one
>has realized it yet.
Yes, this follows directly from "The Sovereign Individual"
>Inste
At 10:29 AM 8/12/2002 +1000, Ian Green wrote:
>PS: Has anyone considered that a well designed, voluntary, constitutional
>direct democracy system would logically result in a reduction of
>legislation much greater than 10dB? Professional legislators justify their
>existence by bombarding us with
So long as each digital entity can only use one vote on a matter, and if it
is a non-trivial matter to log in an out, and if it is an absolute
requirement that any voting entity's activity on the (whichever)
policy-development site (reasonably) proves that the entity has read and
considered t
Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography +
weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one
has realized it yet.
In 100 years no one will give a rip about democracy. The states will be so
small that it won't really matter. It will be ab
