On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:17 AM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-06-14 2:19 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: >> In my opinion, the post you >> were replying to is worse than impolite; it's racist crap that >> -- apart from being factually incorrect -- is utterly irrelevant >> to anything even vaguely connected to this list. > > The question is, should we rely on cryptographic enforcement transactions, > in which case bitcoin or something like it is a good idea, or state > enforcement of transactions, in which case it is a bad idea.
That's the question? No. The question is: how can you not be embarrassed? > The character of the transactions enforced by the state indicates that > something like bitcoin is a good idea. Utter nonsense. Crypto will NOT protect you from the state. > I am pretty sure that you would find any accurate depiction of those > transactions racist and offensive. Indeed, the reason people find it > strangely difficult to accurately report what happened is because race was > absolutely central to what happened. The US government is throwing money at > voter blocks defined by race, destroying the financial system in the > process. In other countries, the government is also using the banks to > throw money at voter blocks, but for the most part not racially defined > voter blocks. You use racial epithets and racist theories based on generalization from anecdotes, and won't address that when challenged. How can you expect to be taken seriously? Nico -- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
