Tim, I most certainly am not recanting, and you know it. (Well, perhaps you don't, but I would think better of you despite your negativity.) If you read the part I did think carefully about, you would know exactly what I was referring to. But feel free to spit out 90% venom, and 10% substance. It's clearly your style. Ern -----Original Message----- X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Tim May [mailto:tcmay@got.net] Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 2:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: A very brief politcal rant At 4:30 PM -0500 11/9/00, Ernest Hua wrote:

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From: Jim Burnes [jburnes@savvis.net]

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Bait and switch is probably not the right term. Let me think of a better term. How about fraud. Promising voters special favors if he is elected. But thats the Hatch Act violation and I digress.

Hmm ... I'm thinking on an empty stomach (no lunch yet), so I am not quite sure, but my gut feeling (no pun intended) is that you have a point ...

You seem to do this a lot: shoot from the hip with some flaky and ill-presented ideas and then concede that others have raised points you haven't thought about. While none of us expects others to share all or even most of our views, a certain minimum of knowledge in how government works is expected. Please go find some high school-level textbooks on our federal republic system, on the electoral college, and on basic issues about why changing voting hours at the last minute, changing the voting rules, and allowing "do overs" are just not permissable. Get some education. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.