On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Aaron Swartz wrote: > No you don't. You can't show me anything that doesn't have a URI. I take issue with this. _I_ don't have a URI. In fact, the attempt to assign one to me (in the UK at least) may actually be illegal*. And this is without getting particularly metaphysical. Of course, the lucky joe who happened to own the domain that the one true URI (URL?) for God occupies is probably in a priviledged position. jan * there's a limit to the lifetime of electronic identifiers for people; and there is also a requirement that an electronic identifier for a particular application should be licensed for the purposes of general identification in a public application. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk YKYBPTMRogueW... you try to move diagonally in vi.Received on Saturday, 23 June 2001 06:38:01 EDT
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