Calvin and Hobbes
At 3:14 AM 4/12/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
Snow Crash is a book about a future in which governments are ineffective. Companies run things, and have complete local control. The world has gone to hell, and as a result, life is nasty, poor, brutish and short. Many people do not look forward to this world.
Reminds me of a good joke I heard about the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" (Calvin is a little boy, Hobbes is his stuffed toy tiger, who only Calvin can see is alive). Why is Calvin so much like Hobbes? He's nasty, brutish, and short. (I heard this from Chip Morningstar...I don't know where he heard it, or if perchance he invented it.) --Tim 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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
Calvin is also ADHA. Dan On Fri, 12 Apr 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 3:14 AM 4/12/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
Snow Crash is a book about a future in which governments are ineffective. Companies run things, and have complete local control. The world has gone to hell, and as a result, life is nasty, poor, brutish and short. Many people do not look forward to this world.
Reminds me of a good joke I heard about the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" (Calvin is a little boy, Hobbes is his stuffed toy tiger, who only Calvin can see is alive).
Why is Calvin so much like Hobbes? He's nasty, brutish, and short.
(I heard this from Chip Morningstar...I don't know where he heard it, or if perchance he invented it.)
--Tim
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, Higher Power: 2^756839 - 1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
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