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Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:05:08 -0500
> From: Michael Hohensee <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
> > Explain how the system works. Explain how the various systems operate, how
> > the costs are calculated, and how they're paid. I want to see the same level
> > of *specificity* that I and others have agreed to provide you in our
> > examples.
>
> Do you have any idea what you're asking for?
More than you can produce apparently.
> Quite frankly, I do not have the time (nor the space) to explain to you,
> in detail, how an entire civilization operates. In fact, any attempt by
> me to explain such a system would fail, since there are doubtless many
> innovations which specialists in the respective fields would make, and
> there are many more which have already been made, which I am not
> necessarilly aware of.
If you can't explain your system to me in sufficient detail then perhaps
it's because you don't understand it.
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