Perhaps 'provable' that there is no solution (?)

Post #12,500 by Ashton 10/9/01 5:20:29 PM Reply	Perhaps 'provable' that there is no solution (?) Your link to another wannabe posse comitatus wielder of vast judgments, with a half-vast mind, reminds me that we cannot solve the quandary that - We cannot make ideas safe for homo-sap minds. At best 'we' can try to inculcate in growing minds enough humility that they won't sound like this flake, later on. Still, the more available techno gadgetry - so is leveraged the effects of just one such sociopath. We are now permanently stuck on this path. (Perhaps honest Muslims and others - rue the fact that a less dangerous, more er peace-oriented mindset? cannot coexist in the techno- world, in any next.) Pandora
Post #12,511 by ben_tilly 10/9/01 6:14:07 PM Reply	Flake? I think not. I do think he is hopelessly naive about the uses said protocol would be put to. But the protocol itself is solid. If you get widespread encryption and common use of digital cash, there will be organizations which will be willing to act as the middleman in allowing global politics to be destabilized through anonymous donations to anonymous predictors of bad things happening to important people. Cheers, Ben
Post #12,521 by Ashton 10/9/01 7:18:29 PM Reply	No argument re the techno- possibilities. nor much opinion about the practicality of his, as you say - naive scheme. (Nor do I attribute to him the will? desire to use it.. Well, not automatically but -) But isn't the general principle sufficient to point-at - millions of possibilities for sabotage of every complex system (incl. human interactions with same)? General principle? The more complex, the simpler to destroy that which was built up with great effort over time. Entropy? Note the physics of WTC (I figure you have already): All that PE, added-to with erection of each floor. Took 7? YEARS overall. All the contents added their own gravitational store. Integrate successive KE-conversion. Actual collapse time: ~ 20 SECONDS. Vishnu / Shiva Build / Destroy Behold ye mighty and despair.. Yep - we ARE a scary species <<< One might even say, despicable (but not in Tweety-bird's lithp)

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