[105631] in Cypherpunks
Re: Non Explosive Weapons
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederick Burroughs)
Tue Nov 17 01:13:09 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:59:57 -0500
From: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@ns.minder.net>
Reply-To: Frederick Burroughs <riburr@shentel.net>
Michael Motyka wrote:
> John,
>
> NEW is such a goddamned brilliant acronym.
>
> Now I'll get in trouble if I start making *major cojones capacitors*.
> Mineral oil will become a controlled substance if possessed in
> quantities greater than 1/2 pt or used in any manner other than that
> described on the label. Vacuum pumps will be contraband. Like ROM
> burners.
As all aspects of the infrastructure become metered, every drop, electron,
every imagined unit is measured, counted and TOLL ASSESSED. Our society is
now measured, not by the strength of its individuals, but by the flow of
units past a counter. Any impediment to the flow of units, and the
measurement and extraction of TOLLs from said flow, will be viewed as a Non
Explosive Weapon.
This... Neopointilism, with overemphasis on components, bits, micromanaged
rendering, will resolve humanity into a stream of dots............ a dead
end.
The value of Non Explosive Weapons should be their power to paint the
Neopointilists as moot, through the usual evolution, a kind of Dadaism or
Abstract Expression.
