25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
12:02 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 09:10:00AM -0400, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
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I, James Choate, was wrong. My statements concerning the interactions of photons with mirrors showed a clear misunderstanding of the underlying physics.
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My working theory is that Choate is using the assembled, um, wisdom of the cypherpunks as an alternative to classical forms of education (note I'm not saying he's actually learning anything). Or, alternatively, Choate is simply a Markov chain that uses the cypherpunks archives, the U.S. Constitution, and a high school physics book as its base text. Perhaps eventually the Book of Choate will become as well known as the Book of Beak: http://www.talltree.net/~aad/beak.html -Declan