Re: Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth
On 2005-10-22T01:51:50-0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text Tyler and Jayme left Iraq in May 2005. The Arbil office failed; there wasn't enough business in Kurdistan. They moved to London, where Tyler still works for SSI. His time in Iraq has transformed him to the extent that, like Ryan, he doesn't think he can ever move back to the USA. His years of living hyperintensely, carrying a gun, building an organization from scratch in a war zone, have distanced him from his home. His friends seem to him to have stagnated. Their concerns seem trivial. And living with real, known, tangible danger has bred contempt for what he calls America's culture of fear. Tyler likes the high-speed lifestyle so much that he ditched it and moved to London? I doubt he's carrying a gun there. -- The six phases of a project: I. Enthusiasm. IV. Search for the Guilty. II. Disillusionment. V. Punishment of the Innocent. III. Panic.VI. Praise Honor for the Nonparticipants.
Re: Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth
On 2005-10-22T01:51:50-0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: --- begin forwarded text Tyler and Jayme left Iraq in May 2005. The Arbil office failed; there wasn't enough business in Kurdistan. They moved to London, where Tyler still works for SSI. His time in Iraq has transformed him to the extent that, like Ryan, he doesn't think he can ever move back to the USA. His years of living hyperintensely, carrying a gun, building an organization from scratch in a war zone, have distanced him from his home. His friends seem to him to have stagnated. Their concerns seem trivial. And living with real, known, tangible danger has bred contempt for what he calls America's culture of fear. Tyler likes the high-speed lifestyle so much that he ditched it and moved to London? I doubt he's carrying a gun there. -- The six phases of a project: I. Enthusiasm. IV. Search for the Guilty. II. Disillusionment. V. Punishment of the Innocent. III. Panic.VI. Praise Honor for the Nonparticipants.
Re: Blood, Bullets, Bombs and Bandwidth
At 11:59 PM + 10/30/05, Justin wrote: Tyler likes the high-speed lifestyle so much that he ditched it and moved to London? He and Jayme are back in Kurdistan, now. Don't know for how long, though. He's teaching a new class of engineers, including crypto and security stuff. Watched their jaws drop when he 'em how to break WEP, that kind of thing. They handed him his Browning at the airfield when he landed. :-) Of course, they're touchy-feely liberals through-and-through, but here's hoping they've learned a little about anarchocapitalism having watched it firsthand, albeit temporarily. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
