27 Jun
2002
27 Jun
'02
8:31 a.m.
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Eric Smith wrote:
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.
This Palladium
stupidity won't fly. Remember how people
howled when Intel put unique IDs into their processors?
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. :-( Others have pointed out that if this stuff all goes
through, people
who don't run Windows will lose access to most of the Internet (best
case), or possibly have to create another parallel Internet (if it
remains legal to do so). But another effect is that non-Palladium
hardware will become very expensive.
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.
THE END
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