On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:
In a fully distributed state, the number of elements that have to fail in order to make the system not work is the same as the number of elements in the system. Fully distributed systems (as in plan D) have the structure of water.
Actually that's not accurate, it depends on the particular 'hyper-cycles' that the various components rely on in their existance. Simply because a system is distributed doesn't imply that each 'node' or participant is identical and non-unique (which is the problem with your water comparison). Even in a fully distributed crypto-anarchy system the individual are unique and non-interchangeable. Otherwise the entire 'pay yoru way' would fall down, there'd be no reason to pay anything for anything. If you were all interchangeable you'd already have whatever it was we were talking about exchanging.
It is interesting that trees need water, but water does not need trees.
Bullshit. If it wasn't for the biosphere trapping hydrogen in water it'd be gone a long time ago (ie no water). ____________________________________________________________________ The ultimate authority...resides in the people alone. James Madison The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------