An age sage - love it :) <beating my conspiracy drum:> assuage confronting material, bypass meaningful discourse, two birds one cup I guess 'knowing all things' does remove the need to wasting time ascertaining 'there are no new insights here, I know it all already'. Such omniscience is ever so convenient, prescient even (considering one knows the content of all presentments prior to reading or viewing) that I wonder why we bother saying anything at all really - at least the time poor are now reassured 'there's nothing new here, move along...' </acerbic and disillusioned knife> On 5/21/16, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Dear Age Sages Robert and Peter.
Got proof?
An Ancient
At 08:18 AM 5/21/2016, you wrote:
On May 21, 2016, at 3:13 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
That was happening at least as far back as ancient Rome.
It is the definition of force-mononoply. As old as sedentarism, which is about five thousand years older than agriculture.
Cheers, RAH