On Thursday, November 7, 2019, 04:49:59 PM PST, Punk - Stasi 2.0
   <punks@tfwno.gf> wrote:

   On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 23:40:15 +0000 (UTC)
   jim bell <[1]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
   > I just did a search of my AP essay.  I didn't find a reference to
   Chuck Hamill's essay, "From Crossbows to Cryptography" in it.
   [2]https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/from-crossbows-to-cryptogr
   aphy.pdfWhat is going on?
   >    AHHH that's the title. I've been looking for that supreme piece of
   garbage but couldn't find it because I thought the title had the word
   "arrow" in it. Haha.
     >  Alternatively, that supreme piece of garbage is just one more
   piece of decent governmetn diversion. It fuels the incredibly stupid
   and self-evidently false idea that 'technology' favors freedom.
   We don't say that 'technology' ALWAYS 'favors freedom', in any
   particular case.  That claim sounds like a strawman, which I have found
   is typically the most common example of false argumentation.
   Government can employ technology for those purposes, and you can then
   notice that, but that doesn't mean that the net effect of technology
   favors non-freedom.
   Further, 'Government' buys technology using money robbed from the
   public, robbery that I have long argued would be prevented using an
   implementation of the AP system.  Please try to explain why
   "government", the major form of "unfreedom", would remain capable of
   doing its work if any of its employees to try to tax were targetable
   with a functioning AP-type system.


   > I cannot imagine NOT having cited Hamill's essay.  It, perhaps more
   than any other single thing, inspired me to write my AP essay.
   > Please help me solve this.
   >                   Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com
   2. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/from-crossbows-to-cryptography.pdfWhat