The death of the 'death of distance' Re: [Dgcchat] Liberty Reserve Raided
At 12:48 AM +0100 10/20/07, Graham Kelly wrote:
Could you take a journey over to LR office, and enquire?
"90% of life is showing up." -- Woody Allen "Just as the principal output device of the 'paperless' office was actually the laser printer, the principal output device of the internet and its so-called 'death of distance' is actually the airline seat and the hotel conference room." -- um, me, circa 1995 or so, if not exactly in those words. ...and don't even get me started on the pipe dream of using the internet for jurisdiction shopping, or 'regulatory arbitrage', or whatever the buzz-de-jour is these days. Until we change the rules with technology, everything will continue to become more and more illegal, everywhere, all the time. If you think Kurzweil's 'singularity' will be fun, wait until you see regulatory ubiquity. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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