On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:00:33 -0800 (PST) Richard Vickery rmv1@sfu.ca wrote:
| |-- |[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp |Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
Tim:
"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains" Locke 1768(?)
You are not slave to the Government unless you choose to be. You, and everyone in the state (in the global sense, as opposed to the American) controls the government.
I suppose your lines, and lines like it from everyone in the group are why you do computers and why I should hang my hat, quit the group, pursue my projects and let you live your false assumptions about the state and its institutions, and build the operating system without me.
Regards, Richard
I suggest if not already done so to read from the late Georgetown's university professor, who also taught at Harvard,Princeton and was once a professor to Bill Clinton. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy & Hope: A History of the world in our time.
http://www.wanttoknow.info/war/tragedy_and_hope_quigley_full1090pg.pdf