[11769] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Random Thoughts Regarding RSA/NCSA/EIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Deutsch)
Mon Apr 18 19:56:28 1994
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 14:22:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company"'s message as of Apr 15, 10:57
To: "Rob Raisch, The Internet Company" <raisch@internet.com>,
Brian Hawthorne - SunSelect Strategic Marketing <brianh@suneast.east.sun.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Hey, Rob!
[ You wrote: ]
> Apologies beforehand for the rambling nature of this. Spent the night
> doing taxes. Mea culpa.
Given the rumours that have long circulated about the
potential automatic sentence recognition capabilities of
certain branches of the U.S. government, I'm not sure I'd
ever want to post a message to the effect that "I spent
the night doing taxes. Mea culpa." Seems it would
interfere with the plea-bargin phase of the procedure... ;-)
- peterd
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My proposal for funding the Internet is pretty simple. I vote we institute
an "Information Superhighway" tax, the proceeds of which will be used to
fund network infrastructure. The way this would work is simple - every time
someone uses the words "Information Superhighway" or any of its derivatives
we strike them with a sharp object and make them pay a $10 fee (of course,
the sharp object is not actually needed to make this scheme work, it's just
in there because it seems an appropriate thing to do...)
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