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John Walker, the author of this and host of Fourmilab, passed away last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297185 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

• defrost 2y ago
  Are his bumper stickers still available? Could be a rush on . . . Yes, right here, right now, you can obtain image files in a variety of resolutions and/or the master PostScript source code for The One, The Original, The Prophetic (July 1990), The Authentic “Evil Empires: One down, one to go…” bumper sticker, anticipating the obsolescence of railroad era continental-scale empires in the information age. https://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/
  • dylan604 2y ago
    When did the "one down" go away? It just morphed into a different thing, but it's still kicking, and winning in certain areas
• gsf_emergency_2 2y ago
  Kelvin is an odd childhood nickname for a JWW, maybe a reference to Lord Kelvin, or, a referent of Kelvin R. Throop? https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_46_1.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_46_1.html https://www.keanw.com/2007/01/protecting_inte.html https://www.keanw.com/2007/01/protecting_inte.html