Performance of Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks in Wireless Environments. A thesis submitted for the degree of M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering

Conse]quences hardly less undesirable are likely to follow the general adoption of a Social Ethic, based upon the erroneous view that ours is a fully social species, that human infants are born uniform and that individuals are the product of conditioning by and within the col]lective environment. If these views were correct, if hu]man beings were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecut]ing the heretics who demanded it. For the individual termite, service to the termitary is perfect freedom. But human beings are not completely social; they are only moderately gregarious. Their societies are not or]ganisms, like the hive or the anthill; they are organiza]tions, in other words ad hoc machines for collective living. Moreover, the differences between individuals are so great that, in spite of the most intensive cul]tural ironing, an extreme endomorph (to use W. H ...»