Re: can anyone offer Lisp job?

>>>>> "KMP" == Kent M Pitman <Kent> writes:
[...]
KMP> The true purpose of privacy in society, I think, as I heard
KMP> someone once say (I _think_ it was John Gilmore in some
KMP> remarks at the first Computers, Freedom and Privacy
KMP> conference in San Francisco, 1990), is to protect people from
KMP> being meddled with over things that don't matter.

1991. http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt

KMP> That is,
KMP> there is no end to what things people don't like in other
KMP> people--religion, mental health status, etc. And you can't
KMP> always get someone to stop having such prejudices. So as a
KMP> consequence, the more you know about someone, the more you
KMP> can control them by making up rules about what you know.
KMP> Privacy is about understanding that a lot of the problems
KMP> between people can be alleviated by just not having people
KMP> need to know. So even though you can't get people to fear
KMP> certain benign categories of people, you can get them to not
KMP> know who is in those categories, and that can help to reduce
KMP> the problems that result. [...]

I think you meant "not fear" above. I don't know who the last 'you'
is referring to, but I suspect a distinction can be (ought to be?)
made between individuals inquiring about the people they deal/trade
with voluntarily and coercing disclosure/discovery by gov't fiat. On
the flip side, it seems, is the prohibition of inquiry about what is
deemed irrelavant as a pre-condition of trade. I think the latter is a
bad shortcut to take even though it seems politically expedient at times.

cheers,

BM
.