Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-07 Thread Tim May
At 10:47 AM +0200 4/7/00, Tom Vogt wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. >> >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of >> >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right? >> >> You're being foolish. >

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-07 Thread David Honig
At 04:48 PM 4/6/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> I don't think MS ever used violence, or the threat of it. >> Ergo, it ain't nobody's business what they do. > >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. You are confusing meat-violence with abstract meta

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-07 Thread Reese
At 04:51 AM 07/04/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >Tim May wrote: >> >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. >> >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of >> >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right? >> >> You're being foolish. > >

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-07 Thread Tom Vogt
Tim May wrote: > >if you are a company, then going bancrupt is the equivalence of dying. > >someone threatening you - overt or implied - with driving you out of > >business is the equivalent of a murder threat, right? > > You're being foolish. explain that to the 10k people who lost a job at my

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-06 Thread Tim May
At 10:52 AM -0400 4/6/00, Tom Vogt wrote: >David Honig wrote: >> >Oh, Ignore that guy stabbing the supplier in the back with a knife while >> >he steals money out of his pocket and distracts the customer with flashy >> >lights and loud noises (and the occassional blackmail attempt). >> >> I do

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Free Market Model

2000-04-06 Thread Tom Vogt
David Honig wrote: > >Oh, Ignore that guy stabbing the supplier in the back with a knife while > >he steals money out of his pocket and distracts the customer with flashy > >lights and loud noises (and the occassional blackmail attempt). > > I don't think MS ever used violence, or the threat of i