David Formosa <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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"You fuck with me, my family, or my property you die. You leave me alone and I leave you alone."
Thats fine and good. But if I can't trust the goverment to folow its own rules and uphold liberty how can I trust you? And how can I trust the next person? and the next? ...
It's a distributed system, it's more resilient to abuse than governments. If one person becomes too much of a nuisance (real trigger happy for ultra minor infractions -- swearing at them, daring to look at them when they're in a bad bood) relatives, friends, or concerned citizens will correct (fill trigger happy person with lead). That's how the wild west worked anyway... outlaws didn't last that long. So you're relying on other peoples sense of fairness ... should easily work out better than governments. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`