Re: [Foundation-l] EFF & Bitcoins

2011-06-21 Thread robert_horn...@netzero.net
and you are digging yourself into an intellectual hole if you try to defend them and bash alternative currencies. -- Robert Horning -- Original Message -- From: David Gerard On 21 June 2011 17:52, robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote: >  I'd be far more worried about the st

Re: [Foundation-l] EFF & Bitcoins

2011-06-21 Thread robert_horn...@netzero.net
The claims of "Bitcoin advocates" about the legality of the currency have always been questioned. Frankly I don't know of anybody involved with Bitcoins and understood it on a technical level that wasn't also sure that it was simply breaking new ground on both a technological as well as a legal

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

2010-05-06 Thread robert_horn...@netzero.net
-- Original Message -- From: George Herbert Let me pose this a different way, however. Take UI entirely out of the picture - the Wikimedia Foundation is all about supporting projects that gather and create information for the public good, presenting that to the public, and crea

Re: [Foundation-l] MMORPG and Wikimedia

2010-05-06 Thread robert_horn...@netzero.net
-- Original Message -- From: Thomas Dalton No, it won't. People have been saying that for years and the fact remains that a screen full of a text with a few relevant images is a much better way to convey information than VR. I look at comments like this as somebody who is