-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The entity calling itself Steven Weller <stevenw@best.com> is alleged to have written:
Jim Ray wrote
No he didn't. It was CyberAngler (motto: "Trolling For Libertarian Cypherpunks Since Mid-April") that wrote that. Attributions are important-- try not to mess them up again. (> > == CyberAngler) (> == Steven Weller)
The Internet is beyond the stage of small communities exercising informal social controls (peer pressure).
How so?
We aren't convincing him to shut up just by telling him that we've heard his statist spiel before, are we? His point exactly! He is trying to tell us that peer pressure isn't working to shut obnoxious people like him up, so stronger measures are needed.
It's now a major industrial city and will
It's industry being?
It's a service industry. An information service industry. Journalists, phone-sex whores, business consultants, bankers, brokers and barkers are moving into town, setting up their virtual shops, and catering to the hordes of readers, sightseers, sex-seekers, game-players, businessmen, professionals and amateurs of all stripes that are pouring into town in wave after wave. Granted most of these virtual shops consist of a single ticket-taker's booth and a 10-meter tall neon facade. Granted that the shops occasionally collapse on visitors, that there are no streets, that you can't tell the sellers from the buyers and that few people are able to accept cash. Still, it's a service industry. more later, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMYepE0jbHy8sKZitAQHkqQL+KNFMjTq7GVkySNQ8nxSIeHkRA1wfYDwA G/rWdYK3jZ56QbHqScIxMp8oag7Ur8btthmQe5BhMI/hGQLBdXokJ2Mhw69PM1dJ nIVQ4Zne5d82d+h3Y5bUlVyD3qTT1BR1 =CElr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----