You're far from the only one who has aroused his ire, Bob...In fact, it occurs to me that he may deliberately write in the way he does (superficially fascist, with a few bows to libertarians where needed as long as the fascists get final trust/control and are trusted to let the powerless watch them) in order to have an excuse to whine and fulminate... <Somebody's .sig> - --- end forwarded text -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.5 iQA/AwUBPRiZH8PxH8jf3ohaEQJR1wCg1zjeUE14/nPWsY/NyyKI2nCnvWQAniQg u0ynYdErEj7j5UNVGgoGhC9N =agqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- 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'