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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.misc,comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: Open Response to Richard E Depew
- Date: 14 Feb 1996 17:49:38 -0500
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- Message-ID: <4ftou2$n73@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu>
- References: <824160406.9068@spence-n.demon.co.uk> <slrn4hvvcb.ip2.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com> <4fqugp$j9q@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> <slrn4i2g1j.p6b.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com>
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- In article <slrn4i2g1j.p6b.grendel@unix5.netaxs.com>,
- Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> wrote:
- >USENET, for the most part, exists on private property. Even if there
- >were a feasible way of holding votes on issues, there is no way to
- >bind people to those decisions.
-
- There is no way to bind {sum of leaders, police, judges, etc.} to "democratic"
- decisions in real life, either. If they were to ignore votes you would have
- as little recourse as you have on the net when the appropriate group on the
- net ignores the votes.
- --
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, karromde@nyx.cs.du.edu;
- http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~arromdee)
-
- "An alien invader has entered our galaxy! It has now entered our universe,
- clearing Saturn... radial velocity KMS minus 8. It is now orbiting directly
- for Earth." --Bad American Dubbing #2 (quoting ???)
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