On 09/04/2016 02:19 PM, juan wrote some telling information about 'where he's been'; a 'place' some of us may not have 'been to'..
Families and businesses are dictatorial beacause they operate in a dictatorial environment - child raising tends to be pretty dictatorial per se. What is your point.
I've said this before. Your world is lonely and miserable. Rr
On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 00:22:04 -0700 "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net> wrote:
On 9/3/16 11:32 PM, juan wrote:
Playing with the 92-98 archive...
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 95 10:48:20 PDT To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: CYPHERPUNK considered harmful.
"Similarly, there's the Libertarian Party, with similar themes to our own..."
"Getting back to your suggestion that "we" change the name to something more respectable. How could "we" do this, given that "we" are an effective anarchy?"
The group was "an effective anarchy". So is hanging out with your friends. Corporations (and families for that matter) are, classically, dictatorships. Does that make the political and economic system they operate in dictatorships too?
Families and businesses are dictatorial beacause they operate in a dictatorial environment - child raising tends to be pretty dictatorial per se. What is your point.
My point was to inform people that the 'themes' of the cypherpunk 'movement' are supposed to be libertarian themes (forgetting for a second that the US libertarian party is a joke)
"Form your own group, your own mailing list, with a catchy name, something like "The Privacy Education Foundation," or "The American Civil Liberties Union" (whoops, taken), or "The Society for the Preservation of Cyberspatial Liberty." " "Evolution in action. The market in action. A better approach than trying to get the name and the charter changed."
A market in action...
My point is that the CHARTER of the mailing list is supposed to be LIBERTARIAN.
ps: messages from the great philosopher Stephen D. Williams? 77 in total, stopped posting in 1995 - messages are either content free or nerdy, useless, technical stuff.
And firewalls: http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls/archive/firewalls.199502
We were talking about crypographic and security related topics, like firewalls and protocols, time stamping services (which I implemented a couple times for widely used services), etc.
Cool. And you sabotaged them as well, as per orders from your government I assume. Why don't you tell us about that?
I even found time to correct Tim May, who cried uncle sort of. ;-) I happened to have personal knowledge of that situation.
I wasn't mature enough to philosophize much then.
And you think you are know? Do you know the etymology of the word "philosophy", I suppose?
Philo-sophy means love of knowdlege/wisdom. See, the requirement for philosophy is not 'maturity'(whatever you mean by that). The requirement for philosophy is the love of truth and intellectual honesty.
I lurked later, being extremely busy implementing things and other pursuits.
sdw