From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T06:39:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Admiring Apple (was Re: Respect and Disappointment)

Francis Hwang wrote:

> Secondly, I think we should all be suspect about a court case which 
> allows a company to subpoena your emails not because you may have 
> information vital to national security or to some other public good, 
> but because somebody (not you) somewhere broke an NDA, and you were 
> involved.

I think we can see where this is going.  I'm not a pre-eventualist (yet) 
but I see it all materializing like thick cake smearing over my 
eyelids.  I think if Ashley Raymond were here, he would say something 
utterly incomprehensible, just to avoid joining culture.

It all reminds me of the ancient confounding of the tongues, but caused 
by a society which is wider than it is tall.  Maybe we will live in 
cities which are six or seven level deep.  Each level with its own 
nomenclatures and systems.  I honest grip tightly the precept that we 
will safely passage between realms.  However, in my most morose hours, I 
can't resist accepting the inevitability of evolving retinas which will 
shield us from each other, so that perhaps we will see a ghost or only a 
cape or maybe only just a few loose stitches hovering there stubbornly.

_why