kwalker2> </paste> From: Rohit Khare <Rohit at KnowNow.com> Subject:
kwalker2> Ridiculous Airline Security Story #N, N being large....
kwalker2> Federalizing this -- making it more rigid -- is only going
kwalker2> to hurt the airline industry further.
kwalker2> I know United has been traumatized. I know that I prefer
kwalker2> diversity to literal-minded Federalism...
kwalker2> It's the fear of privatized retribution that makes me fear
kwalker2> for the Republic...
kwalker2> Rohit </paste>
Hehe, this is pretty funny in the sense that Rohit's "native geek libertarianism" is leaking out from the private-profits, socialized-costs world of dot-coms, which he inhabits (that's what KnowNow.com is, his start-up; they basically put an HTTP ("web") server into your web browser using Javascript, and then do relatively neat tricks with http connections and the like; interesting but not radically so) and contaminating the rest of his life.
>From what I know by way of the geek grapevine, Rohit's a decent enough
person (he has a sort of LBO-like list, FoRK ('friends of Rohit
Khare'), that is fairly popular among the geekset), but all the
carping about 'keep the feds out of the airline industry' is hard to
take seriously from someone who is trying to get rich off the
publicly-funded and developed Internet.
Best, Kendall Clark -- Honesty subverts!