Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!gvw
From: gvw@etive.ed.ac.uk (MOBY)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Relevance
Message-ID: <979@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Nov 88 08:15:55 GMT
References: <8811181946.AA01289@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: gvw@etive.ed.ac.uk (MOBY)
Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project
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In article <8811181946.AA01289@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP writes:
>
> (some more irrelevant Daiell-bashing here...)
>
>Nevertheless, he has hold of a basic moral truth that you, with all your
>sophistication, are still evading. There is no 'public money'; there is
>only stolen or extorted private money, 

1) Untrue.  There is *only* public money; all private accumulations of money 
large enough to fund something like highways are the result of theft,
made legitimate by the thieves' writing the rules.

>I agree that nation- and world-wide data highways are a good idea. I am
>therefore confident that the free market will build them, and drive the cost
>of use down to a triviality.

2) Like American hospitals?

3) None of this is relevant to this group, so I apologize to those who
   are tired of reading political polemics instead of interesting
   speculations.  I just believe in equal air time...

   All flames to me, please.

Greg