From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 11 18:17:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCF937B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:17:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from vador.skynet.be (vador.skynet.be [195.238.3.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAA643FCB for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by vador.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h1C2HXPY003145; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:17:42 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200302111248.h1BCm7133936@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> References: <200302111248.h1BCm7133936@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 02:02:57 +0100 To: Dave Hayes From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: matthew dillon Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 4:48 AM -0800 2003/02/11, Dave Hayes wrote: >> Before you can force everyone to use your fair allocation >> system, > > The notion of "force" is misleading when dealing with the internet. That's my point. > No one is forcing anyone to do anything. Incentivizing, now that's > different. You can create all the incentives you want to try to keep people from making assassination attempts on the president, but you'll never completely stop them. You may be able to reduce the probability and the frequency of actual known attempts, but that's the best you can hope for. > Not for me. That would be something to get off the freeway about. ;) > A better use of the energy, wouldn't you agree? Nope. I've got a right to be there, too. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message