[87097] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why the White amendment is a good idea (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Sep 25 17:01:52 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970925120717.17603A-100000@vorlon.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:23:31 -0400
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@vorlon.mit.edu>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 12:07 pm -0400 on 9/25/97, Aaron Weissman <aweissman@mocc.com> wrote:
> The NETCenter
What an oxy-maroon. What a self-referent -- not to mention
self-congratulary -- canard.
C'mon, folks.
Any entity which has the unmitigated presumption to have "center" and "net"
in its name demonstrates nothing less than total ignorance of
microcomputers and Moore's law, much less the internet it hopes to be the
"center" of -- no matter how small a piece of the net it hopes to be the
"center" of...
Sheesh. GAK, indeed...
Reality is not optional. Trying to find the "center" of any piece of the
net is equivalent to the cosmological "problem" of finding the "center" of
the universe.
It represents the utter fallacy of hierarchy in a geodesic age.
Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
Hettinga's Corolary to Gilmore's Law: The net will see "centers" as damage,
and route around them.
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