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> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: Peter wrote: > > See Clausewitz. > > See 49 BC Julius Ceasar. > > See "failure to provide context". > >>There's a fine balance between assuming a common background >>which provides shorthand referents, and being a showoff. Are you serious? It didn't even occur to me that anyone here might have a problem understanding what she was getting at. Thoughtful of you to bring everyone up to speed, but she's no more showing off than anyone else here who absorbed obscure cultural referents into their particular conceptual landscapes. If someone threw around all the buzz phrases cypherpunks take forgranted to a bunch of lawyers, they'd see you exactly the same way. Accusations of showing off tend to be an excellent defense mechanism against the embarassment of feeling left out of the conversation. ~Faustine. I still wish she'd read the Herman Kahn though... ;) *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPGv6t/g5Tuca7bfvEQIeMACePDJ7Tez9lL/tGHgIKR/J/cvrYF0An2If LYtmwDtQA3kvhJ1aay1I0CRs =t6qu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
