ePrint (was Re: HP OfficeJet 6500A plus)

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2011, Fairlight wrote:

...
>At any rate, it doesn't surprise me that PayPal either self-monitors, or
>caves to the government.  What it did was tick me off when they yanked
>WikiLeaks' usage of PayPal.  I don't even -read- WikiLeaks...  It's a
>matter of principle...they caved, one way or another.

When the 900lb Gorilla is in the house, fighting it is likely to
be a pyrrhic victory.  One doesn't fight Leviathon in set
battles, but by guerilla warfare as the British learned in the
American Revolution, and the U.S. experienced (but didn't seem to
learn from) in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

     the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
     alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless
     series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary -- H.L. Mencken,
     1923

Bill
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