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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 02 Feb 2000 13:00:00 GMT
I've started an archive of The Libertarian by Vin Suprynowicz, accessible via the "Vin" link in the navigator on the left side of my pages. Vin is one of my favorite columnists. My favorite quote of his is on page 16 of Send in the Waco Killers:

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

There are a couple of other good quotes on my Vin page at tripod.com.

His latest article, {@Ignoring Iowa}, comments on the Iowa caucuses:

...Americans will soon choose whether the next corrupt millionaire socialist to rule America will be Al Gore, George W. Bush, John McCain, or Bill Bradley.

...if one had to name the two candidates active in the process today who would be most likely to completely eliminate the personal income tax and the tyrannical, counterproductive War on Drugs, those candidates would clearly be magazine publisher Steve Forbes, and a black American and former ambassador named Alan Keyes.

And when all those taxpaying rural Republicans got together in Iowa Monday night, only 40 percent of them voted for Texas Democrat (even Texas Democrats say he's a Texas Democrat) George W. Bush...

While 44 percent of them voted for either Steve Forbes or Alan Keyes.

Didn't they?

...

In following a couple of links that Vin sent me to other archives, I found Liberty Anonymous. Worth a look. Found this there:

nowBush2000: Ban Freedom Now! Vote Bush 2000

A reference to Bush's statement, "There ought to be limits to freedom", available on a T-shirt, which I'm wearing right now, from gwbush.com.

The New Hampshire primary results are in. Result numbers at MSNBC. Story at ABC News (and everywhere else, I'm sure). The surprise here is that McCain roundly defeated Bush.

Gore/Bradley: 52/47% (144,000 votes total)
McCain/Bush/Forbes/Keyes/Bauer: 49/31/13/6/1% (232,000 votes total)

Wired - Cyber Safe or Gov't Surveillance?: "Cilluffo sided with CIAO: 'Throughout history, the first obligation of the state has been to protect its citizens. Today is no exception.'" No. The only obligation of the state, the only reason we allow it to exist, is to protect its citizens' personal freedom.

ZDNet - Lawmakers: Ban Net Taxes Forever. Hurrah for Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Rep. Christopher Cox of California. Call your congress critters (if you still believe in that) and ask them to support the upcoming Cox-Wyden Internet Tax Freedom Act (assuming they don't plant any land mines in it).

Wired - Linux Apps for the Desktop. More news from LinuxWorld Expo including a reminder that Linus Torvalds is having trouble getting his green card.

The Economist - Transmetamorphosis. A good non-geek introduction to the Crusoe architecture.

osOpionion - Robinson's Computer: "Crusoe is not just a low-power processor running an emulator: it is designed from the ground up to emulate... But why stick to conventional ideas of a processor? Why not run Java bytecodes on your Crusoe? Python happens to compile nicely to Java bytecodes, so you could have a low power, high reliability Zope server running at assembly-language speeds. That means lots of smart pages per second in very little rack space."

Wired - Clinton Eases Up on Crypto. A new Executive Order relaxes export restrictions on fast computers. Nothing to do with crypto. I couldn't find the EO on the White House Executive Orders page. Clinton's executive orders are often filled with land mines.

Wide Open News has a new format. I like it. It will allow me to link to anything I see on their front page without losing those links the next day.

Upside - Behind DVD Legal Scramble: "In the final analysis, this legal battle has the potential to shape the scope of copyright law as it will apply to digital media for years to come. Courts taking a first look at the DMCA should be careful to ensure that a balance remains between unauthorized copying and distribution of digital works and the preservation of free speech and free access to information."

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