Anonymous writes:
Adam Back wrote:
It is almost as if they are afraid to discuss openly their views on the subject.
This doesn't stop them from castigating those who post anonymously in regard to this subject.
(As if not wanting to face 20 armed government agents who consider you "armed and dangerous" {i.e. shoot first and ask questions later} somehow negates their facts and logic.)
A very good reason to post anonymously, agreed. There is a cost with anonymity: people take you less seriously, none of your reputation is on the line. Anonmous persistent personas might be better as they allow reputation to be tracked. However persistent personas open themselves to writing style analysis attacks.
Democracy is one person one vote, however this is skewed in most democracies by numerous factors: corporate lobbying, media influence, and people who are easily influenced by media.
AP is one $ one vote. Theoretically rich people could out-vote their rivals.
So the end result might well be, not the assassination of those involved, but the lessening of their power by virtue of depleting their funds, which leads to a more equal playing field.
I'm not sure this follows. If a corporate can use it's wealth to influence other groups, for example by assasinating key employees of opposition company, it may well get richer as a result. People do things for their own benefit, and to the extent that their predictions are accurate, those who participate will fare better than those who do not (modulo the chance of reprisals, if it is apparent who is doing the attacking, and if the attacked organisation survives to retaliate).
We have no way of knowing whether the outcome would be "a good thing" by any chosen metric.
But the results would be a far cry more interesting than reruns of Gilligan's Island.
Yeah, but if the premises required for AP to exist at all are true (government-proof anonymous payment system), and if it doesn't turn out to be much fun, you'll have a job getting out of it. Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`