Re: [cryptography] New mailing list for crypto politics/non-tech (Was: Cypherpunks mailing list)

2013-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
On 2013-03-26 6:21 AM, Jack Lloyd wrote: I just created a new mailman list https://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptopolitics as a venue for discussions that would normally go to cypherpunks but hasn't because of the name or spam or whatever reason, and which are off topic for this list

Re: [cryptography] New mailing list for crypto politics/non-tech (Was: Cypherpunks mailing list)

2013-03-25 Thread Lodewijk andré de la porte
2013/3/25 James A. Donald jam...@echeque.com You don't have cryptopolitics unless the government is trying to ban stuff. Current bans focus on bitcoins and file sharing. To politics there is more than the destructive side. ___ cryptography mailing

Re: [cryptography] New mailing list for crypto politics/non-tech (Was: Cypherpunks mailing list)

2013-03-25 Thread jameschoate
Lodewijk andré de la porte l...@odewijk.nl wrote: To politics there is more than the destructive side. That is the funniest thing I've read in a long while. You sir don't have a drop of Cypherpunk blood in your body. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus jamescho...@austin.rr.com

Re: [cryptography] New mailing list for crypto politics/non-tech (Was: Cypherpunks mailing list)

2013-03-25 Thread Moritz
Can we slowly move back to crypto on this list, and discuss politics and cypherpunk or whatever definitions on the new one? On 26.03.2013 06:19, James A. Donald wrote: Politics is collective decision making. Cypherpunk is opposed to collective decision making. Definition of POLITICS

Re: [cryptography] New mailing list for crypto politics/non-tech (Was: Cypherpunks mailing list)

2013-03-25 Thread jameschoate
Actually, you're both wrong. Politics is a coping strategy we inherited from our social ancestors, nothing scientific or intelligent about it - it's an emotional behavior.