[66098] in Cypherpunks
Re: The GAK Momentum is Building...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Sat Sep 21 22:25:40 1996
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:10:20 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 1:56 AM 9/22/96, jim bell wrote:
>But as usual, you ignore the obvious solution to the problem. Let's suppose
>the amount of the fine is set at $1000 per day. Actuarially, this works out
....
>Naturally, you won't even consider the possibility of going outside the
>system to solve a problem. The rest of us notice that there are probably
>thousands of terminally-ill people who would gladly act as a human kamikaze
...
I get the feeling that the "standard form letter" for all such invocations
of AP is turning out to be:
"Suppose you owe somebody money. It is much cheaper just to use AP to have
him killed."
Indeed, this "simple" solution is ever so much cheaper than paying a fine,
repaying a loan, fulfilling an obligation, whatever.
(P.S. The hiring of terminally-ill kamikazes is an old one.)
--Tim May
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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