At 2:22 AM -0500 11/2/98, Tim May wrote:
Fatuous nonsense. After all, those folks down the road may be taxing them, and may need killing. Or those folks may use computer networks to connect to others for the purposes of liberation.
I see computer networks as promoting secessionism, freedom fighting, and resistance in general.
The New World Order, the One Worlders, see this as "terrorism."
Which is why strong encryption is needed. Which is why "they" oppose strong encryption.
John Gage has a typically Fabian socialist view that somehow computerization will lead to an orderly, peaceful world.
Me, I view networks as the key to retribution and justice.
Then again, it could be that after all the "secessionism and freedom fighting" are done with, the resulting "disorder" (as in lack of rulers) will be so ubiquitous that *WARS* will no longer happen, as there is no one to lead the armies. and no one paying taxes to support those armies. That then would be peasce, no? -- "To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust" http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::petro@playboy.com