Re: JYA ping
JYA is temporarily dead online due to work load in the DC area, near the armageddon push button, which is located, in case you give a, out on Route 7 disguised as FAA Leesburg. We paid a surprise Sunday morning visit to the CIA back entrance, got surrounded by HMMVs and spiffy guards with hands on guns, interrogated by a swell looking Ms. Security who ran our Duncan Frissell ID card through the master file, idled for 1/2 hour observing gaps in the maginot line, and then received a heartfelt thanks for cooperating, Duncan, wink. Mrs. Frissell hissed bitch as we serpentined the Jersey barriers back out the way in. It's worth observing that this prose style is literally inimitable. I'd say its authentication value (in terms of persuasively suggesting that the entity long known as JYA authored this also) is at least as strong as a long-used PGP signature would be. Others, having more faith in the abilities of federally-employed creative writers, might I suppose reasonably differ. -- Daniel
Re: Re: Eyes on the Prize...not the Millicent Ghetto
Or my favorite 1000 swiss franc notes currently worth about $618 each. DCF Neat! I need to get out more. A thin sheaf of those would add considerable spice to the old slip the envelope out of the inside breast pocket of your suit coat transactions. -- Daniel J. Boone
Re: Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys
More to the point, you don't *live* unless you're selling something, What the hell does *live* mean? There are quite a few folks on this planet who 'sell' nothing. They grow their own food, they build their own house. snippage No stores, no electricity, no telephones, no air conditioning. No medical (it was a three hour drive by Jeep to get her to a airstrip where they could get her to a hotel - all paid with US tax dollars - not one African whatever they use). All of which reminds me of the punchline to that old joke about the man whose doctor told him to stop smoking, drinking, and eating fast food if he wanted to live longer. Doctor, you call THAT living? The point being that subsistance survival is not *living* in the sense used here. -- Daniel J. Boone (who has tried it, at length)
Re: Re: Bad guys vs. Good guys
From: Michael Motyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] I remember that in the weeks post 9-11 Safeway or one of the other grocery store chains offered to profile customers. What are they going to do? Question everyone who buys olive oil, chick peas, garlic and sesame paste? Don't forget, they arrested the guy who bought a truckload of candy at Costco just before Halloween I never did hear if they let him out or if he is still rotting in preventive detention
Re: Buying reputations...and turnips
Of course, in a more nuanced understanding of reputations, it would be appreciated by Everquest players that the skills that got a player to Grand Wazoo are not transferrable when the nym is sold. And indeed, it is so appreciated. Ebayer is just about the worst epithet someone can be called in the Everquest world. Ebayers are feared and dreaded, because they breed chaos and random unanticipated meaningless instant death. But the economics are compelling. There are MANY specific items of gear in Everquest that can each take 50+ hours of gameplay to obtain. If I were in a position to spend that same time doing professional work at $100 per hour, the opportunity cost to me of obtaining that item could exceed five grand. Viewed in that light, purchasing a character on eBay that is pre-equipped with, say, four such items for a mere $700 is a downright bargain. Effectively, I'd be paying some fourteen-year-old twenty-nine cents an hour for his ample spare time.
Re: Re: Teen Anarchist Back Online Despite FBI Big ISPs
Yahoo honors the spirit of the First Amendment and free speech, according to spokeswoman Mary Osako, but she noted that Yahoo's terms of service prohibit posting content that incites violence. So I guess there are no pro government or military groups permitted on Yahoo Groups since such groups 'incite vilence'. Is Yahoo under the impression that it is never OK the 'incite violence'? DCF I'm sure the persons responsible for implementing this policy have proper Orwellian training. Good violence and bad violence and all that. Inciting violence? Well, we don't mean that literally, obviously -- but we know the inappropriate stuff when we see it, and we don't want that kind of thing on our system.
Idiots, explosives, and big breasts
A satire -- we hope -- courtesy of the Project Safe Skies mailing list. Daniel J. Boone, Lawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] No man's life, liberty, or property is safe when the legislature is in session. -- Olongo Featherstone-Haugh WASHINGTON, D.C. - The FAA is set to unleash a firestorm of criticism early next week when it issues a directive to airlines calling for close, hands-on inspection of all women with large breasts who are checking in for flights. The agency had considered this step for some time, as is quite easy to conceal large amounts of C-4 inside a brassiere, but after last month's incident when a terrorist concealed explosives inside his shoes, the FAA feels it has no choice but to proceed. Tests have shown that a 42D bra can easily contain sufficient explosives to fatally damage a 747. And many bras, especially the very popular Wonderbra, have wire harnesses built in which can easily be adapted to a detonation mechanism. The problem is not the size of the mammaries, per se, but to determine if what is inside them is indeed, the real thing, so to speak. Breasts have a certain feel, a certain consistency of texture, which is far different from C-4, and about the only way you can determine if the real thing, as it were, is to subject them to a vigorous pat-down and squeeze, an agency spokesman said yesterday. Critics, especially NOW, have been quick to voice their opposition. It's profiling, it's sexist, and it's discriminatory, NOW's legal counsel reported. And besides, it's not the chest measurement, it's the CUP size that counts. Everyone knows a 32D is far more dangerous than a 38AA. NOW is going to write to Atty General Ashcroft to demand that he personally take a hands-on approach to developing standards for these inspections. As women, NOW recognizes the need for enhanced security, but come, on, this is a dangerous jiggling of our Constitutional rights. NOW has stated that they will advise all their members to refuse to be patted down and squeezed, rather they will suggest that their members remove their blouses and bras at the check-in gate to prove that they are not concealing any contraband. When told of this, the FAA spokesman responded, YEEECCCHHH! Have you ever seen these NOW ladies? Aside from increased airline safety, another positive from this new directive is an expected quintupling of the number of applicants for the position of security screeners at airports. Indeed, demand for applications is so high that the government is considering lowering the starting salary. Said Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, Obviously, if you have a popular job position, where people are beating down the door to apply, you don't have to pay a competitive wage. This could save the government, and ultimately the airlines, billions each year In a related development, it is expected that Hollywood celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, and Jennifer Lopez, will soon abandon their private jets, in order to fly commercial. Paparazzi are already scoping out the best locations. The new security procedures will no doubt result in lengthy delays. Before, when we had delays at airports, we would say that planes were 'stacked up,' one FAA wag noted, though off the record. This gives a whole new meaning to the term 'stacked,' he snickered. When asked what was the FAA's policy on breast implants, the spokesman said that were well aware of the question and were studying it avidly, but they needed more time to get their hands around the size of the problem. Finally, the White House has announced that former President Bill Clinton has volunteered his services free of charge to train Airport Screeners. --- PROJECT: SAFE SKIES MAILING LIST PROJECT: SAFE SKIES WEBSITE http://www.projectsafeskies.org List Moderator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UN/SUBSCRIBE: send blank email with command as subject
Re: Cypherpunks IQ Test to the Sirs of Dillinger, Brown Packet, et. al.
Daniel said: "Next Question?" Do you have a problem with commitment? I do not mean to imply that you aren't faithful. -Aimee What, you mean the game is over? I thought there was a question #2. Besides, option (b) was "take the woman", not "keep the woman." Any honest man will tell you that revising the wording makes the question more difficult. Until you change the question, my attitudes toward commitment are irrelevant. Irrelevant, irrelevant, that word has a ring. Oh yeah, I remember, that's what she thought our commitment was when she decided to move out. wry smile What I should have said: "My dear, that's not irrelevant, it's a rhinocerous!" At least it couldn't have worked any worse, and it might have bought me a smile. -- Daniel =========== The Law Office of Daniel J. Boone 326 Fourth Avenue, Suite B Juneau, Alaska 99801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] === "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe when the legislature is in session." -- Judge Gideon Tucker ===
