Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies
At 03:29 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 11:28 AM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Geodesic means shortest path, and you'll note if you play with tracert that the shortest path (as seen on Earth's surface) is rarely taken.
Measure the path in time?
Yeah, some dead french dude IIRC pointed out that light takes the quickest route through a lens. Light and time being rather intimate if you believe your interferometer. OTOH a packet takes a route that depends on business practices, etc, and isn't generally optimal. In any case you're a lot more readable if one global replaces 'geodesic' with 'well-connected' or glibly 'wired'. Feel free to ignore any constructive hints of course :-) your prose is more identifying than your pk sig.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 4:43 PM -0700 4/8/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Feel free to ignore any constructive hints of course :-) your prose is more identifying than your pk sig.
Apropros of actually something, that's how they used to go after Detweiller around here when he was spoof-a-licious mode. With a concordance program. Cheers, RAH "...and don't make me haul out the ~56k rant I wrote about reputation, behavioral persistence, and biometric holography, either, sunnyboy..." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQHXmzMPxH8jf3ohaEQK7iwCgsXyzrppu1FvPoiC/dd//L73CwU8AnjDJ KTM462CvAUcvXPm8zOQLOrFN =/vC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- 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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