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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (20300)	6/29/1998 12:18:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>For that matter direct selling from an offshore server anonymous to the nosy is a business model already...anyway.<<< Yes. Widely predicted in cyberpunk novels, actually happening. Interesting to see if the response will be worldwide free trade, a worldwide tax and control agreement, or national barriers. Right now there are fairly effective international barriers. All they had to do was ignore and allow to wither any efforts to internationalize the standards and search engines. National pride has dictated that the French, the Dutch, the Koreans and everyone else stop using English for the internet as we all used to do, and start using the local language. Meanwhile the search engines have become nationally specific. Now the only international sites you can find and use easily from any language in your local search engine are the porno, the gambling, and the propaganda websites. The net needs a standard language, even if we have to make it up. Please, not Esperanto. On a completely different note, I agree with Dan that recent decisions in the courts have a lot to do with the stuffing of the Federal employment ranks, especially the judiciary, under Reagan, then more under Jesse Helms, who pretty much took over the process in the absence of any moral force pushing the issue under Bush and Clinton. They got what they were going for, to a fanatical extent pro-Falwell, anti-abortion, pro-Christian, anti-immigrant, pro-business, judges. However, using this litmus test has hurt the overall quality, I think, as it has pushed out more legitimate criteria, even if I ignore that I am on the other side of several of the political issues the right was trying to influence by stuffing these positions. The Christian Coalition once boasted back in about 1988 that they had placed over 100,000 dedicated Christians into the federal government, that would be a close network of 6 or 7 percent hiring each other and trying to then move policy. I imagine the percentage is higher by now, although the Christian Coalitian has run out of steam to some extent. (These days I worry more about the militias and other white power groups stuffing the ranks of the Special Forces and other bits of the military with their own. Pretty soon those folks overall are going to be much better trained than the FBI or ATM people sent to arrest them. Maybe they already are, judging from Waco and Ruby Ridge. ) I would say the percentage of new Federal judges leaning to the right on social and economic issues must have been more like 90% over the last 16 years, due to the influence of Helms on the Judiciary Committee among other things. Then too, just by being in the judiciary they will inevitably affect all the other judges just by weight of numbers. Even without the new precedents that need to be at least considered by all the judges, the urge to conformity is strong in judges, even stronger than it is for other pillars of the establishment. Combine that incompetence caused by the improper selection criteria with the knee-jerk fringe conservatism and you get decisions like the one this appeals court handed down. IMO. I don't see any reason the DOJ shouldn't appeal this, because these (two of them) judges were clearly trying to establish new precedent, and new precedent is precisely what the Supreme court is there to have the final say on. Gerry? I'm messing about out of my competence perimeter here. Comments from the expert? Ciao, Chaz