At 03:34 AM 26/04/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote:
>Marcel Popescu wrote:
>> Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not
>> interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next
hundred
>> years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion
>> people, and there's room for much more than that *without* leaving the
>> Earth. There's no way we could make 1,000 billion people in the next
hundred
>> years. QED.
>
>wrong. I must quote from memory since I don't have the book here, but if
>you want title, author and ISBN, just ask:
If he doesn't want the title, author and ISBN for this (from memory) quote
below,
>at the current standard of living for canada, we would ALREADY need two
>ADDITIONAL earths to sustain the CURRENT world population.
I certainly do, so I can see what sort of drivel you've been mushing up
your skull with.
>even without a change in standards of living, given current growth and
>the nature of exponential functions, we will exhaust this planet's
>resources ca. 200 years from now.
At which time, we become a space faring race, or die.
*shrug*
Show me the quote.
>both of us will be dead by then, but it's still close enough to matter.
>it's got nothing to do with crypto, however.
But as Tim said,
"However, importantly, it is clear from recent discussions on the list
and from at least one recent physical Cypherpunks meeting, that an
increasing number of participants "just don't get it."
There was, for example, a proposal by some people at a recent meeting
that Cypherpunks should set up their own "certificate-issuing
authority."
This is a terrible direction to go in.
Apparently we are not discussing politics _enough_.
"Cypherpunks write code" may be a nice mantra, but when Cypherpunks
write code in furtherance of statist and centralized missions, the
results are awful."
- TCM (swiped from an onlist reply)
