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> >If you accept the premise that "peer == equal" does that mean > >in the end there will be only two ISPs each with exactly 50% > >of the world's Internet because no one else will be an equal? > > Why can't you have more than two 'equals'? Couldn't you have three 'equals' > or four 'equals'? It would be just as difficult to maintain three or four > _exact_ divisions as it would be to maintain two. I am not a quantum physist (among many things I am not) but it would seem that two is too many--the likelyhood that they would always be exactly equal is vanishingly small (Heisingberg might insist it is impossible in principle) and as soon as the become unequal one (both?) disappear. [Descartes, on being asked if he wants a beer, says "I think not". . . . ] -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- . . - L. F. (Larry) Sheldon, Jr. - . Unix Systems and Network Administration . - Creighton University Computer Center-Old Gym - . 2500 California Plaza . - Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.A. 68178 Two identifying characteristics - . [email protected] of System Administrators: . - 402 280-2254 (work) Infallibility, and the ability to - . 402 681-4726 (cellular) learn from their mistakes. . - 402 332-4622 (residence) - . http://www.creighton.edu/~lsheldon Adapted from Stephen Pinker . -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
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