On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Bill St. Clair wrote:
"Minority Report" comes to the real world. I predict that if they do this, the lampposts will be decorated with politicians who MIGHT support this kind of thing.
I used to think that too, but now I'm no longer sure. People are demonstrably willing to put up with quite a lot of ridiculous things. We might have had a watershed event after the Pirate Party burst upon the scene, but I'm not sure they can rally themselves up to go places. Even so, I don't see them reach more than 10%. Not as long as geriatrically gifted are running the shop. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE