
The Generality of End to End and the irony of the telco definition.
by
Hamish
on Fri 27 Aug 2004 07:16 PM NZST
I know I'm probably not making it clear, but it was Voltaire who said The way to become boring is to say everything."
The point I'm trying to make with these network arguments, and the ones I probably haven't made yet with respect to "Code Is Law," and "Law Is Code" and the fact that the platform for Law is so unreliable (compare and contrast) with the platform for Code is so reliable (leeway, did someone mention leeway? Slack?) Is that government is a network, and the first amendment said the network shall make no law abridging the communication of the people.
The democratic experiment was an end to end network, let the edge decide, networking of the people by the people for the people. And we are so close...
To escaping even the potential for tyranny of information…

What's with the laptop in bars?
by
Hamish
on Fri 27 Aug 2004 07:09 PM NZST
Two things, I like to move around and see what's happening in different places, and, until they see somebody else do it, some one marginally like them, (remember the other 8yr old who could swim) people won't risk it. I look a fool, to some perhaps, but more often, I'm either relentlessly ignored or, applauded.
Being individual means disapproval from some , but you can never be conformant enough to please everyone either. Its another balance thing.
So, while I've a terminal device, I feel I should be out there working, looking otherwise, but still, like the professor with his eyes closed in thinking mode, there I am.
And like this barmaid asks me when her brother visits can she bring him into the bar to be with her while she works. I search out the alac. org. or some such and its not possible. Not even in the adjunct food serving premises, or am I wrong?
And then, there is the show-off in me.