Chuck Peddle Passes

[Punk-Stasi 2.0]

On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 08:08:31 -0800
Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:


> 
> I don't think he was the typical ancap libertard. 

	Agreed. To state the obvious, while typical 'libertarians' will sing the ode to facebook, google, and the rest of the private stasi, cypherpunks must realize by virtue of being cypherpunks that the private sector is the enemy too. May being a key cypherpunk must have been aware of this little issue...


> Or perhaps he was a  'tard of the times' and the concept has become even more disgustingly
> perverted 
	
	yeah, I think political culture or what passes for it has gotten worse. Though on the other hand the US is a slave society 'founded' by slave owners like jefferson and franklin who were the kings of fake libertarianism. So in a sense nothing's changed. 


> (Remember, Mother Earth News first rag-paper issue had an
> article about Rand corp and techie types becoming nomads in RVs and
> fleeing the corporate world... A fit with the back to the land hippies
> of the time)
> 
> Did you note this in one of my earlier posts? (sj: penal code).


	Yesh, but I know nothing abou May's family so I didn't comment. 

> 
> The person's name is Jeff. He and Tim used to sit with him on a bench
> downtown  ... Tim wearing a tinfoil tricorner hat and 'x-ray' specs.
> They may be related.

	That's possible I guess.


> 
> As far as making millions, like my friend Wally, a Mechanical Engineer
> for HP in the early 70s who got a big cut of the patent for the
> measurement system HP used to gauge the flying height of a drive head
> over a disk, Tim really wasn't interested in being a millionaire nor was
> it a goal and both GTFO as soon as it happened ... to do what they
> wanted in life.

	That's certainly more sensible than keep working for govcorp. 

> 
> Wally bought an apple ranch up in the Soquel hills and grows apples for
> Martinelli Cider in Watsonville for example. He hires Mexicans for
> better than prevailing wage to pick them. He borrowed a farm truck from
> one of the big name local growers down by Moss Landing and I'd use it to
> take the bins down to Watsonville. Martinelli's weighmaster was one of
> the family daughters. The whole biz is a family operation.

	Nice. Living in the countryside is way better than living in a city.

> 
> Point being people who aren't trying to be rich and do become that have
> a choice... they can either choose to become a psychopath, or GTFO. Even
> the guy who wrote the Angry Birds game GTFO.
> 

	Yes. And leaving the corporate world like your friend and May did is not something that typical 'libertarians' would do.