[extropy-chat] Reccommendations for a mailing list

[Keith Henson]

At 12:15 PM 11/02/05 -0800, Mike Lorrey wrote:

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>It is impossible to discuss extropy in the current day of
>implementation without involving politics. One reason the government
>got the drop on us in the 1990's was there was too much nerdy denial of
>political reality. The assumption that government was as obsolete as
>the dinosaurs and would wither away was infantile, but it was
>insistently made by many persons on this list, as well as by Bill Gates
>and company, who primarily lost their case because they didn't think
>paying off the right politicians was a good investment.

I presume you are not talking about the anti trust case?  Because 
eventually *someone* paid off the right people and Bill still has a monopoly.

Keith Henson