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IP: Celebrating the Fourth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Tue Jul 3 21:49:44 2001
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:02:48 -0400
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From: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
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>To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
>From: Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie@sun.com>
>
> Tuesday 3 July 2001 at 17h45
>
> In 1994, I sent the following message to the Cypherpunks"
>
> From: whitfield.diffie@Eng.Sun.COM
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Celebrating the 4th
> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 at 13h01
>
> On the 4th of July 1993, I walked out of my house and saw my
> neighbor's flag flying from the porch. I thought: ``I have no flag
> to fly; how shall I celebrate Independence Day?'' I went back
> inside and got Gunther's Casebook in Constitutional Law. At
> breakfast, I re-read the Constitution. A practice I recommend to
> all of you.
>
> I subsequently acquired online copies of the Constitution, and the
> even more appropriate Declaration of Independence from Danny Weitzner
> at EFF. Plain TeX copies are attached below, separated by a
> --- cut here --- line.
> (snip)
>
>(It seemed corny but I couldn't figure out how to improve on it since it
>was true.) Today the Constitution and the Declaration are readily
>available on the web and still worth reading once a year.
>
> Whit
For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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