Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Then what are you doing here? This list is for discussing and implementing cypherpunk concepts. If you deny them, you should go elsewhere to pursue your goals. Tsk tsk...this sounds like Orthodoxy to me. Part of the benefit of an anarchy is to support otherwise-suppressed forms of existence and

Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Where are you going to buy your hardware from, that it can't be shut down? How are you going to hide your TX from the DXing white vans? Well, you made some interesting points. Actually, it would seem that some of the Islamic regimes as well as mainland China have been at least partially

Re: Fornicalia Lawmaker Moves to Block Gmail

2004-04-14 Thread Justin
Dave Howe (2004-04-13 14:11Z) wrote: Justin wrote: It's not just a private interaction between two consenting parties. It's a contract that grants power to a third party eliminating traditional legal guarantees of quasi-privacy in communication from sender to recipient, one of which is

Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:29 PM 4/13/04 -0400, An Metet wrote: Major Variola writes: Crypto *can* keep bits free. And so maybe language. But Men with Guns control physical reality, which limits what those bits can do. Read the archives on the problems with linking credits to dollars or physical merchandise.

Re: Meshing costs (Re: Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies)

2004-04-14 Thread sunder
Tyler Durden wrote: Someone enlighten me here...I don't see this as obvious. I might certainly be willing to pay to route someone else's message if I understand that to be the real cost of mesh connectivity. In other words, say I'm driving down the FDR receiving telemetry about the road

Re: On Killing Blaster

2004-04-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Sorry that I pissed on your orthodoxy by doubting that everything was inevitable in its strongest form. Aside from inevitability there's the road taken...it may have been inevitable that the Nazi's would fall (aside from fighting a 2-front war), but they took out a few folks on their way down.