From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 15:53:23 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 6, 2002, at 04:49 pm, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > Harvey talks about how untrustworthy the Fortune 500 is, yet he also
> > claims a) that the government is equally as untrustworthy, based on his
> > experience in computer security, yet b) he wants to empower the
> > untrustworthy government to keep tabs on the untrustworthy Fortune 500
> > and force them to label all their products however his buddies on the
> > left want them done. Please tell me how this is supposed to be a)
> > reassuring, b) logical, and c) in any way to be considered a rational
> > means of running things.
>
> I don't want the government to keep tabs on untrustworthy Fortune 500 or
> force them to label all their products. I just want accurate labels on
> food products. Everybody keeps assuming that this can only be enforced
> by the government. I never said, believed or endorsed that opinion.
>
Ok, I missed that, my bad. Do you have a proposed solution though?
Obviously you appear to disagree with the libertarian-esque approach
I mentioned.
-- Brian Atkins Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:15:11 MST