[86755] in Cypherpunks
Re: y2k as ideological opportunity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barber)
Thu Sep 18 17:20:06 1997
From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com>
To: vznuri@netcom.com
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:54:48 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: tcmay@got.net, cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <199709181916.MAA17831@netcom13.netcom.com> from "Vladimir Z. Nuri" at Sep 18, 97 12:15:59 pm
Reply-To: Jeff Barber <jeffb@issl.atl.hp.com>
Vlad the Imposter writes:
> this is my call out to PROGRAMMERS not to work on projects
> that you don't consider ideologically valid. let's start
> a movement in which "intellectual capital" refuses to be
> routed toward supporting oppressive, self-perpetuating,
> dying welfare-state institutions. imagine a worldwide
> programmer union or movement in which programmers refuse
> to work on y2k problems in the government and refuse to
> work on other projects they do not support, no matter what
> the money.
>
> they say that every man has his price.
> integrity has no price!! imagine, would you turn down any
> amount of money to work on the corrupt state mechanisms?
> this is exactly what is required to bring them down. as
> long as they can continue to bribe the populace with its
> own money, they will continue.
Wow. I never expected to see Detweiler championing Tim's "collapse
of governments" theme.
-- Jeff
