From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 13:07:51 MDT
Loree Thomas wrote:
>
> --- Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Zero Powers" <zero_powers@hotmail.com>
> >
> > >Holy mackarel! That seems like an *awful* lot of
> > trouble to go to
>
> > Your kidding right? Or are we supposed to believe
> > your real name is
> > "Zero Powers".
>
> Why is that hard to believe? Many extropians have
> legally changed their names...
>
> I wasn't born Loree Thomas.
Ah, this is an old point with Zero, going back to the original, and
rather heated discussions over transparency. Zero's real first name is
Michael, allegedly.
I am, however, not surprised that someone willing to roll over and
surrender to Big Brother without a fight would posess such a moniker.
>
> > Here you are advocating transparency
> > yet you hide behind a pseudonym.
>
> Before you can make that accusation, shouldn't you ask
> if it is actually a pseudonym?
>
> Assuming it is a nym, It would still be less.. um..
> nasty(?) to put it in the form of a question.
>
> "Why do you use a pseudonym online when you advocate
> transparency?"
Zero's stock answer is that he advocates transparency, but he's not
willing to practice what he preaches until everyone else, at gunpoint,
is forced to be transparent as well (or something to that effect).
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