Re: pray daily

[Adam Stenseth]

Any particular reason this time, or just on general principle?

-adam


On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Anonymous wrote:


   We must all pray daily that someone will kill Bush ASAP.

Re: Where's Osama? (Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's next)

[Adam Stenseth]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Sunder wrote:

 (assuming that we'd win that Vietnam**2 war - Ha!),

Just as a small aside, I think it's worth noting that every war
the US has gotten involved in since Vietnam has been called Vietnam 2 by
somebody: The first Iraq war, Kosovo, Somalia(even those two weren't
actually wars, perse), Afghanistan.  So far, not one of them has turned
out to be.

Is there any overwhelming reason to believe that going back to
Iraq would be any different?

-adam

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

[Adam Stenseth]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Steve Furlong wrote:

 No, that won't do it. People could still spread their dissentious ideas
 by telephone, and photocopy the intellectual property of content
 providers. We need to ban electricity, then the problem goes away...

But then wouldn't all those lecherous pirates just copy works by
hand or, *gasp*, transcribe them with typewriters?  And musicians(and
labels) can be deprived of their well-deserved income with nothing more
than a musical instrument!

I mean, yeah, sure, banning unlicensed pencils, pens, paper,
typewriters, or musical instruments good first step, but the copyright
problem will not be solved until we can close the optical hole.  We must
not allow unlicensed, non-copy-protecting optical sensors(like eyes) if
we're to maintain the solvency of the Content Economy.  And if the content
economy becomes unsolvent, the economic devastation would be unparalleled!
The damage to the american economy at large would be horrific.  Clearly,
only a terrorist would want to possess unlicensed eyes.

-adam