From: Graham Toal . . . . . Bill Gates is attempting to create a worldwide network of about a hundred satellites. You don't get to do that without political assistance, and no way is the USG going to let Bill put those birds up unless they control the technology to snoop on the entire net. ............................................................... Could Bill even think about setting up a satellite network without confronting the Governmental Presence? Anyone who plans to do anything in communications must come to terms with the Divine Intervention Department; maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but for sure by payday. Can anyone in the United States get away with introducing a product or service which is not going to require that "government interests" be represented in some way (if only at tax-time)? They must, at the very least, have meetings, conferences, discussions to ensure that 1) no one in the world is going to be damaged by the new service, and 2) that the MotherShip will get its revenue % . Is there any legally-sanctioned enterprise/company which can avoid this? This is a real predicament not limited to Billg and his interest in the internet. I think quite broadly about all of the areas in which the government steps in to maintain a controlling influence; any time a new idea is introduced, They Will Be There to make sure that they can protect us from the new-fangled object in case anyone tries to use it against us, the Precious Ones, the Most Valuable Citizens of the World. Scanaphobia, anyone? Blanc [Obligatory Reminder: The company won't leFrom owner-cypherpunks Fri Jul 29 21:18:02 1994 Return-Path: <owner-cypherpunks> Received: by toad.com id AA15874; Fri, 29 Jul 94 21:18:02 PDT Received: from selene.wright.edu by toad.com id AA15859; Fri, 29 Jul 94 21:17:23 PDT Received: from discover.wright.edu (discgate.wright.edu) by selene.wright.edu (PMDF V4.3-7 #2485) id <01HFAQ3YAUXS0001IY@selene.wright.edu>; Sat, 30 Jul 1994 00:14:36 EDT Received: by discover.wright.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13118; Sat, 30 Jul 94 00:16:39 EDT Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 00:16:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Aron Freed <s009amf@discover.wright.edu> Subject: Re: No SKE in Daytona and other goodies In-Reply-To: <9407292014.AA07120@sosfc.avtc.sel.sony.com> To: Eric Weaver <Eric_Weaver@avtc.sel.sony.com> Cc: blancw@microsoft.com, tcmay@localhost.netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9407300035.A12869-0100000@discover> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Jul 1994, Eric Weaver wrote:
The government should NOT be viewed similarly to an employer in its relationship with citizens. Employees are free to quit and make their income some other way.
Yeah and since when has this country been so easy to quit and find a new job with the same relative pay???? Do you think it's that easy??? Uh I don't think so.. duh huh... I can't even get a summer job working at a computer store and I'm very computer literate for my age. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=- YABBS - telnet phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu 8888 -=- -=- -=- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=