Palladium and classic computing

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_rddavis.org>
Date: Thu Jun 27 18:36:17 2002

Quothe Sellam Ismail, from writings of Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:31:27PM -0700:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Eric Smith wrote:
> > Yes, but now we're fighting terrorism. Polls show that more than
> > 55% of US citizens surveyed now want to give up their civil liberties
> > to be protected from terrorism. :-(
>
> I say we deport that 55% to Afghanistan and make them work in the poppy
> fields. The side benefit would be that those people will hopefully become
> too doped up to ever find their way back to the US and pollute it with
> their flawed ideals.

Brilliant idea! In addition, that would be a good start towards
solving the overpopulation problem.

> I am all for creating a parallel internet. It would be a chance to start
> over, learn from the mistakes of Internet 1, and improve it to the point
> that it makes people still on Internet 1 long to be on Son of Internet.
> Then everyone migrates to Son of Internet, Internet 1 dies, Palladium goes
> with it, Microsoft loses it's grip on the market, and everyone lives
> happily ever after.

Actually, what would, most likely, happen is that once the Microsoft
lusers begin to drool over Son of Internet, AOL will launch an
invasion of the new internet, then Microsoft will discover it, then
Microsoft will want to own it, the politicians will want to regulate
it, and Microsoft will try to port something like Palladium to it,
then an Internet 3 will have to be launched. It would be far simpler
to just LART all of the people, worldwide, who like using Microsoft
products, in addition to deporting the aforementioned 55% of the
U.S. population willing to sacrifice liberty and freedom for more
security.

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Received on Thu Jun 27 2002 - 18:36:17 BST

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