Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!slug!wex From: wex@dali.pws.bull.com (Buckaroo Banzai) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Lotus Marketplace Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 20:25:14 GMT References: <1990Nov18.224340.3041@agate.berkeley.edu> <48514@cornell.UUCP> <4960@rsiatl.UUCP> <17478@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1990Nov22.081955.4127@looking.on.ca> <1990Nov23.133632.15712@com50.c2s.mn.org> <1990Nov23.201651.980@looking.on Sender: news@pws.bull.com Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Inc. Lines: 23 Nntp-Posting-Host: dali.pws.bull.com In-reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 27 Nov 90 01:59:17 GMT In article <1990Nov27.015917.20215@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: The idea of being a blank is appealing, but how many of the world's sheep are going to follow through? If not enough, you gain little. Au contraire. If only a few percent do, then I win big. The error in the system becomes large enough to mess with their reliability and cost them money, but not enough so that they engage in the counter-measures you describe. Your argument is self-defeating in that if too many people are doing it, they can't make it a law or they'd never be able to enforce it (like the 55 MPH limit). Your enemies are rich and powerful, and the government *can* be bought. Never forget that. That's what makes it fun. If my enemy was as small and swift as I, it wouldn't have the Biblical overtones which make it all the more fun. SLAM! -- --Alan Wexelblat phone: (508)294-7485 Bull Worldwide Information Systems internet: wex@pws.bull.com "SCO is the Milli Vanilli of operating systems."