At 11:44 PM 4/21/96, Black Unicorn wrote:
All this said, I find Mr. May's and Mr. Sandfort's criticism stinging. Mr. Bell, and my response to him, manages to sap a great deal of time and effort from myself and others for no gain aside draining his (and to some extent my) reputation capital. These disputes serve little purpose otherwise. It's clear to
By the way, I certainly was not making a personal condemnation of Uni, or of Jim Bell for that matter. I was mainly making the point that Sandy's point about setting up a wager is problematic (in fact, Uni makes the same points vis-a-vis his view of how Bell might start finagling about the terms of any bet--this was in fact seen during the Extropians experiments, and is what I meant when I said that more time would be spent debating the bet....). I admit that I once I wrote the word "the Unibells" (Uni + Bell, of course), I liked the ring of it (:-}) and used it for the thread title as well. I was serious that I deleted unread the Bell/Unicorn rants; I suspect nearly all others do as well, so their time spent on these messages these last several weeks was even more of a waste. --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."