The BBC's h2g2. website is billed as "Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!". Naturally, one of its pages is about me,. me, me. It starts off with the lines;
Every now and then something. comes along which makes you think "Ah! That's what the Internet is for!". Mike Corley is. one such case.
The user comments linked from h2g2 are less than. respectful, but given the point of view my website promulgates that is understandable. It's true that without the communications ability afforded by the internet, which. came along at just the right time, my complaints would be getting. nowhere. But that's a two edged sword also; miniature cameras only appeared around 1990, so the advantage. of technology is up to the adopter. Secret service intrigues, and on the other side of the coin human paranoia, have both been going on for centuries; what changes now is an increased technologisation. of both sides.
> The BBC's h2g2. website is billed as "Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!". Naturally, one of its pages > is about me,. me, me. It starts off with the lines;
> Every now and then something. comes along which makes you > think "Ah! That's what the Internet is for!". Mike Corley > is. one such case.
> The user comments linked from h2g2 are less than. respectful, but given the point of view my website promulgates that is > understandable. It's true that without the communications ability afforded by the internet, which. came along at just the > right time, my complaints would be getting. nowhere. But that's a two edged sword also; miniature cameras only appeared > around 1990, so the advantage. of technology is up to the adopter. Secret service intrigues, and on the other side of the > coin human paranoia, have both been going on for centuries; what changes now is an increased technologisation. of both sides.
to be the authority of the legislator; another, the interest of the sovereign; another, present custom, and this is the most sure. Nothing, according to reason alone, is just itself; all changes with time. Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted. It is the mystical foundation of its authority; whoever carries it back to first principles destroys it. Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more. He who will examine its motive will find it so feeble and so trifling that, if he be not accustomed to contemplate the wonders of human imagination, he will marvel that one century has gained for it so much pomp and reverence. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice. We must, it is said, get back to the natural and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom has abolished. It is a game certain to result in the loss
