RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 27, 2004 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf... Many Cypherpunks view the need to take up crypto arms to stem off an Orwellian, hyper-evil and hyper-competent dictatorship. I'm thinking a more likely (and no less threatening) scenario is one like Brazil (ie, the movie). Yep. It turns out that broad and scary police powers don't make you any smarter or wiser or more careful, they just make it easier for you to insist on obedience and stifle complaints. Post 9/11, flight attendants and airline employees have more authority to order passengers around and deny people boarding, but they're still the same people they were on 9/10, they're presumably only marginally better at spotting terrorists (at least not obviously Arab-looking terrorists). They just have more power, and fewer consequences when they screw up. .. -TD --John Kelsey
RE: Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards
Half-dozen? And virgins are WAY overrated. -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:33:56 -0700 At 10:00 AM 9/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying to tell everyone to Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the Building. Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man. If you stay in NYC or DC, you are an individual winner of a geopolitical Darwin Award. You can collect along with your half-dozen virgins. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: John Abizaid needs termination
Variaola allegedly wrote: Saw general Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear 2K dead by the elections. We'll settle for less if they're in DC. Isn't he the guy who keeps sending emails about his corrupt Nigerian uncle's poor widow who needs to smuggle $18B in unspent funds out of Iraq and wants your bank account number so you can help? (OK, no. http://www.johnabizaid.com/ has his bio and pointers that look like they're supposed to be his writings, except there are broken html links to apaam.org, the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in the Military or something.) He's apparently campaigning for the position of military governor of Iraq. At least he does speak Arabic.
Individual Geopolitical Darwin Awards
At 10:00 AM 9/27/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: Don't forget, the World Trade Center management was on the Intercom trying to tell everyone to Remain inside the Building...It's safest Inside the Building. Fuck. Here on Wall Street I'm a dead man. If you stay in NYC or DC, you are an individual winner of a geopolitical Darwin Award. You can collect along with your half-dozen virgins.
John Abizaid needs termination
Saw general Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear 2K dead by the elections. We'll settle for less if they're in DC.
RE: John Abizaid needs termination
Methinks he's a robot, Isn't that from Philip K Dick's The Penultimate Truth? Hum. Any chance there really is no war in Iraq and we're just being cowered into producing items for the ultra-rich living outside of Bunker USA? -TD From: Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: John Abizaid needs termination Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:27:43 -0700 Saw general Abizaid on the news. He was so obviously either experiencing pharmaceutically-induced nystagmus or reading from a teleprompter it wasn't funny. Methinks he's a robot, or taking too many go-pills. Lets hear 2K dead by the elections. We'll settle for less if they're in DC. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...
At 05:53 PM 9/27/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: and preventing you from flying means you can't carry out your Clever New Hijacking Plan, such as converting that small guitar into a set of six piano-wire garrotes or mixing that Organophosphates will still make it onto a plane, have been used in Japan, and might be better used in stationary, more populated and still dense places in the US. Also, no one has really tested whether pilots will suffer 300 passengers to die. But there are groovier places to deploy the human pesticides, jets are so old-school. And then there's the ultimate soft targets, grammar schools. Those who lay with israelis die like israelis. Karma ain't just for breakfast anymore. Birds, roost, home. BTW, I don't think TATP would excite the nitrate-sniffing autodogs.. just light your shoe in the restroom next time for Allah's sake.. Who knew the fall of Rome II would be televised?
Their Crisis, Our Leviathan
--- begin forwarded text Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Their Crisis, Our Leviathan Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:24:25 -0400 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Their Crisis, Our Leviathan by Gregory Bresiger http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1621[Posted September 28, 2004] The circus is coming to your town soon. Maybe, Im getting old, but I just cant get very excited about the clowns anymore. Yup, its political season again and those bothersome pols, still lusting for the votes that put or keep themselves and their pals in office, will be in our faces until the nonsense is over. Time for the same tired two parties to trot out the same moronic messages that challenge the credulity of anyone with a healthy three figure IQ. Time for the same politicos, with solutions to every problem under the sun, to promise endless new programs, the expansion of existing failed programs, yet also swear that tax cuts will also be on the way once theyre given more control over our lives. Time for the professional political classboth the ruling Republicans and Democratsto go through the idiocy of a so-called competitive campaign and the pretense of supposedly differing philosophies. Time for those hopelessly inane tube debates. Time for the republics fortunes to turn on such crucial points as how a candidate looks on the idiot box, which candidate shaved betterhttp://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/EN/rte___90801.asp#_ftn1[1] or which slick candidate can come up with the best crackpot idea, an idea that later usually proves to be a figment of his imagination (the nonexistent missile gap flim flam of the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign is one examplehttp://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/EN/rte___90801.asp#_ftn2[2]). Time for a presidential debate commission, stacked with only Republican and Democrat party hacks, to insist that debates cannot ever include any third parties anytime because it would be too dangerous for the average American to hear a different idea or a now radical viewpoint such as less government. Time for John Kerry to promise to balance the budget, yet not propose one major cut in a federal program. Time for George Bush to claim his opposition to big government, yet not mention how he made tens of millions of dollars in a shady deal that included government subsidized construction of a new stadium for the Texas Rangers baseball team, a sleazy transaction in which the powers of eminent domain were perverted to make Bush, then owner of the team, even richer.http://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/EN/rte___90801.asp#_ftn3[3] Time again for the polsor least some of the smarter of these shystersto include a Munich-like promise to get Washington off our backs. Time for the weak-minded among the voters to play the role of Neville Chamberlain (Here it is. Herr Hitler signed it, said Chamberlain of Hitlers signed promise to leave everyone alone in 1938. That was a promise with all the credibility of Bill Clintons middle-class tax cut promise or Lying Baines Johnsons 1964 promise not to send more troops to Vietnam or Ronald Reagans 1980 campaign promise to close down the departments of Energy and Education or. . . .). Time for our masters to duck the question that most economically illiterate journalists arent inclined to ask: Who pays for government writ large and its endless expansions in peacetime, wartime, and anytime in the middle? As one listens to the perpetual seekers of office, with their vows of delivering utopia on earth provided we give them our votes, remember this in case you become a bit wobbly and suspect that youre ready to swallow one or more of their monkeyshinesWashingtons world saving doesnt come cheap. Never has. Never will. Such is the nature of leviathan government. It is classical liberals such as Professor Robert Higgs (See his wonderful bookhttp://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/EN/rte___90801.asp#_ftn4[4]) and the mid-Victorian radical Richard Cobdenhttp://by1fd.bay1.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/dasp/EN/rte___90801.asp#_ftn5[5]who remind us that democratic governments follow predictable patterns. They stumble or run into crisis after crisis. Then the government insists that this justifies it arrogating more power. That, of course, always must include a bigger bit of your property. The latter is accomplished through higher state, federal, or municipal taxes or the use of the stealth tax. The latter is the insidious inflation dodge, a piece of legerdemain that governments have been using over centuries to take bigger and bigger bites of your property. Then these democratic nationswhich, by the way, increasingly contain more and more people who want no part of the political processlater concede the crisis was nonexistent or overstated.
How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport? A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000! Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. /|\ \|/ :They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country /\|/\ --*--:and our people, and neither do we. -G. W. Bush, 2004.08.05 \/|\/ /|\ : \|/ + v + :War is Peace, freedom is slavery, Bush is President. -
Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:37, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to
prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times.
That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously
enough) 4294967295 (0x) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95
('cept they call Win95 a server).
How the heck do they keep a Win95 machine up for 49 days? I think 1 day
is a more realistic MTBF.
Re: How to fuck with airports - a 1 step guide for (Redmond) terrorists.
Sunder wrote:
Q: How do you cause an 800-plane pile-up at a major airport?
A: Replace working Unix systems with Microsoft Windows 2000!
Details: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275
Got to love the spin...
The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to
prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times.
That would be 49.71026961805556 days, or (curiously
enough) 4294967295 (0x) milliseconds. Known problem with Win95
('cept they call Win95 a server).
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Re: Mystification of Identity: You Say Yusuf, I Say Youssouf...
At 06:03 PM 9/25/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Gilmore, et al., are right, as always. If you've been all-but cavity-searched -- okay, virtually cavity-searched, given the state of modern X-Ray airport passenger scanning technology -- and you don't have a weapon, exactly *how* is knowing *who* you are going to affect your ability to hijack an airplane? Of course it doesn't. However, if there are known potential hijackers who travel under their True Names or Known Aliases, and if there's a list of them that can be checked against, knowing the name you're using can validate whether you might be one of them, and preventing you from flying means you can't carry out your Clever New Hijacking Plan, such as converting that small guitar into a set of six piano-wire garrotes or mixing that liquid oxygen shoe sole with rum to form an explosive, and it prevents you from using previously undetected explosives in your luggage or whatever. There are several reasons you might divert a plane in this environment - - to spank the airline for not being careful enough about checking the list, independent of any hijacking risk. - to cover the ass of the person who put the wrong spelling on the list, even though the US Enemies Airline Blacklist supposedly has the passport numbers of Official US Enemies and therefore should have been able to get the spelling from Yousouff's UK passport. - to prevent a potential hijacker from hijacking the plane during the descent phase of the flight, in case they're planning to crash it into Washington instead of London, or to reduce the time that the plane is in the air, in case there's a timed-release bomb in the luggage. (Ideally you'd like to prevent them and their luggage from getting on at all, but it was too late for that, and if there's a pressure-triggered luggage bomb you've already lost.) - to maintain the pretense that the people on the list are potential hijackers or airplane suicide bombers, as opposed to people who might sing politically inconvenient music or give talks that encourage other potential US Enemies or give the money to hire other people to do the dangerous bits. - to be extremely conservatively overcautious because you've discovered that you mistakenly let someone on the plane and the version of the Enemies List that you have access to doesn't indicate which people are actively dangerous passengers of the potential hijacker/bomber type, as opposed to political Enemies who you could arrange to harass at Customs after they've arrived, and you don't have the time to find out why they're there before landing (hey, it took Teddy Kennedy three tries), so you throw the Better Safe Than Sorry dice and decide you can spin the PR Fearmongering if you're oversensitive. I'd guess that the working-level decision was the latter conservative knee-jerk, though the decision-makers preferred to think of it as the third case. Conservatism is easier when _you're_ not going to have to pay for the extra airplane costs or deal with the other passengers who miss their airline connections because you stuck them in Bangor, which are somebody else's problem. The entertaining questions are when they figured out that he was the well-known Cat Stevens and not just the generic-Moslem-sounding Mr. Islam, and whether there are pre-defined policies about landing them in Bangor when they ostensibly had enough advance notice to land them in Newfoundland or Labrador instead, which aren't US territory.
