From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Mar 26 1997 - 01:12:39 MST
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> [...]
> The main distinction to make between us and them, is to distinguish what
> is meant by "improving people". Nazis and their ilk had a preset
> template of their "ubermann". We do not. We see each individual having
Hey, speak for yourself. We, the members of the up-and-outwards party, can
be firmly considered to be part of the technofashist fraction, antifleshist
wing. Vote transhuman! (For today we command this Planet, and tommorrow the
Universe....)
ciao,
'gene
> the power to determine for themselves what they need to do to meet their
> own definition of "improvement". WHther one person wishes to be a pure
> upload, while someone else may want to morph themselves into a catwoman,
> or an aquaton, it does nto matter, except to the individual. It is this
> central characteristic that inextricably links transhumanism to
> libertarianism, and why we cannot separate the two, unless we wish to
> pursue the sort of corporate communal overmind that would be a nazis
> dream.
> --
> TANSTAAFL!!!
> Michael Lorrey
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> mailto:retroman@tpk.net Inventor of the Lorrey Drive
> Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com
> Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/
>
> Mikey's Animatronic Factory
> My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA)
> MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday
> Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL
> @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_
> ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256;
> &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}
>
>
>
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