I love it when "scientists" invoke the 'anthropomorphism' dismissive so flippantly.
Anthropomorphism is calling your computer an asshole and punching it in the mouth (i.e. monitor) when it hangs up on you; thinking that animals might feel pain and suffer or that they might actually enjoy eating, crapping and having sex is surely a point of philosophical or scientific discussion, but it is NOT anthropomorphism.
You are the kind of fetishists that have a stencil on the back of your Classic Linux PPC showing a badly drawn Calvin pissing all over Wintel logos. Use the language/platform/vibrator you like best and promote its greatness by doing something with it that no one else can.
it would appear the only personal immunization from this "hand over the email and no one gets hurt" epidemic is to stop using any mail server whose operator you don't explicitly know (and i mean just short of knowing in the biblical sense.) the logical end point, then, is that everyone in the world will need to deliver their encrypted messages through "village" mail servers, run by and for trusted friends/family.
of course, the american government (and possibly others) would simply pursue the admins of these systems making examples of any who did not roll-over in the same fashion as your typical profit-driven corporation. i personally would go to jail before handing over the files from my village's server, and i would guess other admins should feel the same way if they elect to operate such a system.
emailing is being turned into trafficking, just words instead of drugs, thus the rule has become: don't engage with strangers unless you want to eventually meet a cop. hell, your friend might be a narc...
i see where yer coming from, but you are also looking at your ipod as the main repository for your music, not just a player. i use a smaller mp3 player, but it's cool cuz i swap out my music alot. my computer is my main repository - i can go large on the compression and quality, and it's really no hardship to swap songs while i'm doing something else.
This is the old Susan Reed (a.k.a. The Invisible Woman) ploy, though she pulled her shit off a bit differently. Lacking psychic abilities derived from cosmic rays or that Hyperspace thingy, this may be the joint for some people... ahem.
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I love it when "scientists" invoke the 'anthropomorphism' dismissive so flippantly. Anthropomorphism is calling your computer an asshole and punching it in the mouth (i.e. monitor) when it hangs up on you; thinking that animals might feel pain and suffer or that they might actually enjoy eating, crapping and having sex is surely a point of philosophical or scientific discussion, but it is NOT anthropomorphism.
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the attribution of this quote to Lincoln is disputed.
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it would appear the only personal immunization from this "hand over the email and no one gets hurt" epidemic is to stop using any mail server whose operator you don't explicitly know (and i mean just short of knowing in the biblical sense.) the logical end point, then, is that everyone in the world will need to deliver their encrypted messages through "village" mail servers, run by and for trusted friends/family.
of course, the american government (and possibly others) would simply pursue the admins of these systems making examples of any who did not roll-over in the same fashion as your typical profit-driven corporation. i personally would go to jail before handing over the files from my village's server, and i would guess other admins should feel the same way if they elect to operate such a system.
emailing is being turned into trafficking, just words instead of drugs, thus the rule has become: don't engage with strangers unless you want to eventually meet a cop. hell, your friend might be a narc...
what's next? i would guess EVERYTHING.
i see where yer coming from, but you are also looking at your ipod as the main repository for your music, not just a player. i use a smaller mp3 player, but it's cool cuz i swap out my music alot. my computer is my main repository - i can go large on the compression and quality, and it's really no hardship to swap songs while i'm doing something else.
This is the old Susan Reed (a.k.a. The Invisible Woman) ploy, though she pulled her shit off a bit differently. Lacking psychic abilities derived from cosmic rays or that Hyperspace thingy, this may be the joint for some people... ahem.