Attila T. Hun wrote:
::If you are a "cypher punk", you are not for freedom.
No, no, no, dimitri. Cypherpunks are absolute in their demands for freedom. Most are making the choice to demand freedom while they play in the band and the Titanic sinks.
One also needs to keep in mind that, contrary to the great gun-packing debate going on in the conference, not everyone is so quick to vocalize whether or not they are 'packing'. It's similar to asking your opponent in a poker-game what he's 'holding' when it's showdown time. Would you really trust his or her answer, no matter what it was? To me, the only real answer, in either situation, is a 'shrug'. You've got to pay to play. I don't know if fuck@yourself.up had any problems as a result of his escapade, but if he did, I would suspect there is a good chance that they were caused by one of the more soft-spoken people on the forum. I've bounced a lot of wild-frontier bars in my time, and it has been my experience that it is a truism that, "The quiet ones are the guys you don't want to mess with." Toto