Re: On the outright laughability of internet "democracy"
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:07:11 -0400, R. A. Hettinga <rah@iubc.com> wrote: 160 lines, 1,150 words, 6,393 characters, all insisting on describing his being guthooked, sinker eating, line chewing and flopping up into the greasy bilge, furiously spewing offense and defense, in serious, righteous and angry pursuit of the diaphanous illusion of anoned bait-spilth, becoming clearly the easiest, but also the lowest calorie catch o' the day. Back over the side with you, little fellow. Good fish. Thank you for playing.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 4:20 PM +0200 on 8/12/02, Nomen Nescio wrote, in excruciating, hilarious and even elegant detail: <...all about how I was trolled. :-).>
Good fish. Thank you for playing.
LOL... You're welcome. Guilty as charged. I admit to being absolutely trollable about some things. It's even fun on occasion. As always, you know where the 'd' key is. Or, apparently, I can also tell you where to find it in several languages. I love the net... Meaning that, as it always has been, since people began repeating themselves about six months out from its founding, this list is just a watering hole, and not a salon. That, and you never really know how exactly you're going to get your kicks next. :-). However, if I may be permitted to flop back into the bilge a little while to add *some* content to the discussion again, my point -- well, two, actually -- still holds. 1.) You cannot have truly anonymous voting on the net without also being perfectly free to sell your vote. In short, the only voting that matters on the net is *financial* voting -- voting your control, total or fractional, of an asset of some kind. Don't take my word for it. Look it up. Read the protocols. Figure it out for yourself. It's impossible. And, in so doing you will discover something that I've also said said too much before, also to the consternation of folks like you: 2.) Financial cryptography is the *only* cryptography that matters. [If you respond to a patently content-free fulmination by an obviously trollee with another troll of your own, what, exactly, does that make you, troller -- or trollee? :-)] Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.5 iQA/AwUBPVffd8PxH8jf3ohaEQId/gCg8bSQsIpLv67eVoLDwO8YSTL1S7UAnRA3 rpyy0mOPtS0ydZLaPz7DCyT3 =g1DF -----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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