At 7:26 PM 5/1/96, Black Unicorn wrote:

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Steven Weller wrote:

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Jim Ray wrote

I haven't bothered reading this particular thread up until now, but in my opinion, based on this drivel, you're getting dangerously close to being certified officially by the Cabal as an ignorant kook.

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Nor does freedom increase through less laws or no laws.

Of course it does. However, to maintain community resposibility must also increase.

Watch your attributation, Jim Ray did not write this.

What!!!! Now you tell me, after I spent all that money on a "fire and forget" contract! Well, Jim, all I can say is keep your head down. Sorry! (Seriously, I knew the "Jim Ray wrote" must've been a misattribution, as that is not the kind of stuff Jim writes.) (Oh, and the "fire and forget" contract assassins were well-described by William Gibson in, I believe, "Count Zero.") --Tim May Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software! We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."