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...mighty power of government can be turned to good ends rather than bad. For young Americans to neglect political involvement in favor of private measures, deciding not to vote because they gave at the office, is to invite those with special interests to raid the public treasury and subvert the public good...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Call to Serve | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Offshore "data havens" are another piece of classic cypherpunk vaporware. Here's the pitch: just subvert one little Internet-hooked island country, say Tuvalu (.tv) or Tonga (.to), let it pass a bunch of pirate-friendly laws, and you can store anything there that American computer cops disapprove of. This might yet become a real business opportunity if the Internet gets better policed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...amazing how clunky and unproductive an economy becomes once its people despise and subvert all its big institutions. Members of the Russian mafia don't shoot people because they like to. They shoot them because in Russia these days a bullet is the quickest way to get things accomplished. In such places, industrial consumerism just curls up and vanishes. Black markets take its place; there are no more fast-food chains, so everybody eats lunch out of the trunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Mills said the committee did not recommend a living wage because they did not want to subvert the collective bargaining process. He said the committee did not want to set a specific figure that would require constant adjustment...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Calls for Dramatic Expansion of Worker Health Benefits, Job Training | 5/4/2000 | See Source »

...Washington D.C. where she went last weekend to “stand tall with people who were fighting various forms of repression,” Rebecca Reider ’00 has the pocket of a true protest princess. A pin in her jeans rebelliously rings “Subvert the Dominant Paradigm: “[It’s] a slogan that’s been a dominant theme in my life...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Wallets? Lip Balm? Oh, the Humanity! | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

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