(Note: Please insert a Subject: line if your reader deletes the existing subject. And please don't keep using "cypherpunks@toad.com," as that ceased to be the list address a long time ago.) At 5:59 AM -0800 12/15/98, holist wrote:
Well, just imagine those one-day strikes becoming a kind of craze on the internet. Be honest now, you could do with one day a week when you simply avoided the frizzy screen, perhaps even two (heard about two-day week-ends, pal? When I went to school in seventies Hungary, we were allowed off every second Saturday as a great favour!)
People could use their leisure-time, their time off-line, as capital, just by timing it with a little care! Boycott-brokerage! You'd be borrowing the muscle of the entire network: after all, they'd not be kind to anyone who somehow or other pissed customers off enough to drop network traffic by 10 percent?
Now you're moralizing that we should use the Net less. A rehash of the old "some of us have a life" cliche. If you wish to be off the Net once a week, go for it. Just don't confuse this with either having a life or making a politically interesting point. --Tim May Y2K -- LMGALMAO -- Loading my guns and laughing my ass off ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.