At 1:57 PM -0500 10/25/04, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Here: Allow me to be the very first - Kerry Very Definitely NEEDS KILLING. But not until Georgie has had *his* turn.
Exactly the point I was making before. Binary politics are a bitch, boys and girls. viz, "I'm as cryptoanarchist as the next guy, but kill the [democrats/republicans] first" means that we are, in fact, democrats or republicans and not cryptoanarchists, and will remain so until there aren't democrats/republicans/libertarians/greens/whatever, to vote for to begin with. That means a structural change in *physics*, and not politics. In the vein of another canonical cypherpunk, "cypherpunks write code". Doesn't mean that politics is not a topic of discussion around here, far from it. This list is, has been, mostly, since its inception, a watering hole and not a working list, but we have to remember not the put the political cart before the physical/financial/economic horse. To mangle my favorite Clinton (George): Free (as in liberty...) your code and your political mind will follow. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'