Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire
For the most part, I'm going to answer this (mostly) seriously, though I expect it wasn't asked in the same fashion. At 9:17 PM -0700 10/28/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping? Impedance mismatch. You're using a (now) cryptocommie codeword for Jewery (neo-conservative) with Nazi imagery. Everybody knows that Jews are communists, right? ;-). Except, of course, to a cryptocommie, *everyone*'s a fascist. Must be like eskimos and 19 different names for snow, or something. It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One of the reasons that the right in this country has been so successful has been their development of a useful analytic apparatus, and corresponding language, over the past 50 years, certainly more so than the left, which is nothing but marxism, dilluted or otherwise. Whatever happened to leaving the barbarians to kill themselves, and getting the fuck out of family spats? When they can't seem to kill themselves fast enough, it's time to help them along a bit, especially when they start killing *you*? :-). At the moment force-monopoly is, by definition of monopoly, a hierarchical market. Hence the dance with the girl that brung ya bit. They have already *stolen* my money, they might as well be doing something with it that goes back to their existential principle (a bandit who doesn't move as Mancur Olsen says), i.e. the use of force itself instead of bread and circuses, and furthermore in killing people (and their friends, and the camel they rode in on) who now have a demonstrated ability to kill me, personally. Sure, there's something to be said for the notion that terrorism is some form of geodesic warfare, but, notice, when you take out certain nation-states, terrorism subsides. Or, at least, it returns to that nation-state, where terrorists can be killed faster. Better there than here, certainly. So, I would say that geodesic war consists of (bearer settled :-)) cash auctions for force. That exists in certain, um, informal markets, but transaction costs aren't low enough for general use yet. I think we're we're going to get there, though. 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'
Geodesic neoconservative empire
At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far as I'm concerned, and I'll gladly vote my expropriated tax-dollars for the purpose of draining the swamp that is the Middle East. Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping? Whatever happened to leaving the barbarians to kill themselves, and getting the fuck out of family spats?
RE: Geodesic neoconservative empire
Sounds good, but there's a little flaw in the logic: At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far as I'm concerned, and I'll gladly vote my expropriated tax-dollars for the purpose of draining the swamp that is the Middle East. We're not reducing the quantity of government, just consolidating under a single growing Borg-like government, namely the US. I consider one giant government a far more dangerous situation that lots of little ones. -TD _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
2000 curies of Ci
t 10:21 PM 10/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of terrorist is dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway system As payback for Ruby Ridge, this would not be an act of terrorism? Just for correctness' sake, there is no element named Ci, its an abbrev for Curies, ie the activity of a gram of Ra. Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly.
100,000 Deaths in Iraq
A large percentage of these are women and children, and dying directly due to American bombing. Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=RelatedStoriespitem=AP%2DIraq+Death+Tollrev=20041029pub_tag=APONLINErelatedTo=942972from=relatedstoryrsNum=4 -TD _ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx
Re: Printers betray document secrets
Ian Grigg wrote: It's actually quite an amusing problem. When put in those terms, it might be cheaper and more secure to go find some druggie down back of central station, and pay them a tenner to write out the ransom demand. Or buy a newspaper and start cutting and pasting the letters... or slightly more professional - lettraset rub-down lettering. available in a wide range of fonts, requires no special equipment to use, and (although not of any value in this application) sufficiently acid resistant to be used on etch boards.
Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
Dave Howe wrote: Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a single-rooted, more *nix-like filesystem turned out to be true). To be fair to MS, that is already here - you can mount NFS volumes as subfolders in 2K and above, just like unix. however, MS don't really seem to want to crow about that - just in case someone points out unix did this literally decades ago I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives (like unix has done for decades :) ). When I first saw this discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that expected to use 'X:\PATH'-style filenames or chdrive() (or whatever that lib call to change the default drive is). Someone suggested that MS might ship an emulator to handle translation (at some non-trivial cost in performance, else no one would have an incentive to refactor) until the vendors could rewrite their apps to use the new native filesystem. -- Roy M. Silvernail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you're not It's just this little chromium switch, here. - TFS SpamAssassin-procmail-/dev/null-bliss http://www.rant-central.com
Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a single-rooted, more *nix-like filesystem turned out to be true). To be fair to MS, that is already here - you can mount NFS volumes as subfolders in 2K and above, just like unix. however, MS don't really seem to want to crow about that - just in case someone points out unix did this literally decades ago
Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I love about the Internet -- ask a question and get silence but make a false claim and you get all the advice you can possibly eat. Yup. give wrong advice, and you look like a fool. correct someone else's wrong advice, and you make them look foolish (unless you make a mistake in your correction, which seems to be some sort of tradition for spelling flames :) Probably the only reason I even post is because I don't mind looking like a fool, if it lets me correct some misconception I am labouring under :)
Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire
At 4:16 PM -0400 10/29/04, John Kelsey wrote: looks like a waste of time and money I suppose we'll find out sooner or later. I'm not going to piss in the wind here on this anymore. 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'
Re: 100,000 Deaths in Iraq
Tyler Durden writes: Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? Most AmeriKKKans are too stupid to know that when their Poodle Press talks about airstrikes against insurgent safehouses, they really mean bombing civilian neighborhoods to scare the resistance out of the people. I wonder how many skyscrapers you'd have to fly planes into in order to kill 100,000 civilians. THe crimes of Bush et al greatly exceed the crimes of the terrorists. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
Re: 2000 curies of Ci
At 09:19 PM 10/28/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly. MilliCuries? That's a bit surprising, though losing microCuries of it would be more likely. An average home smoke detector has 1-5 microcuries, and industrial detectors go up to 15, according to one or two articles on the web which may be outdated. So you're saying they lose hundreds to thousands of smoke detectors a month? Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2004 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire .. It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One of the reasons that the right in this country has been so successful has been their development of a useful analytic apparatus, and corresponding language, over the past 50 years, certainly more so than the left, which is nothing but marxism, dilluted or otherwise. Is there a better term than empire for what gets built when your country goes out, invades lots of other countries, takes them over, and runs them? I don't know about other peoples' objections to this, but mine mainly involve my belief that this is an expensive and not very effective way to deal with terrorism. .. At the moment force-monopoly is, by definition of monopoly, a hierarchical market. Hence the dance with the girl that brung ya bit. They have already *stolen* my money, they might as well be doing something with it Well, the question is, what ought they to be doing with it. Invading Iraq to build a democracy there, in hopes of somehow fixing the root causes of terrorism (as similarly goofy idealists on the left once thought they could do for crime in the US), looks like a waste of time and money. I suspect we're causing ourselves more problems, as Iraq is not only a place where terrorists can go to attack the US and be attacked by us in turn, it's also a place where there are lots of people learning the basic skills of being a terrorist, gaining some experience in doing so, etc. Do you think we're going to kill all of those people? Do you think they'll all abandon terrorist tactics when things quiet down in Iraq? I know the Republican line these days is that we're safer because the bad guys are all shooting at Marines in Iraq, rather than at civilians in Des Moines. But that only makes sense if we don't end up with a much bigger problem later, as a result. Perhaps we should all have rested more secure in our beds when the jihadis were streaming into Afghanistan, where they would be killed in large numbers by the Red Army. But it's not clear that was a long-term win Anyway, you sound like there's some willingness on the part of this administration (or the one Kerry may set up in January) to actually cut government spending to other things, in order to do the nation building thing. What evidence have you seen for that, so far? .. Cheers, RAH
Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives (like unix has done for decades :) ). When I first saw this discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that expected to use 'X:\PATH'-style filenames or chdrive() (or whatever that lib call to change the default drive is). Someone suggested that MS might ship an emulator to handle translation (at some non-trivial cost in performance, else no one would have an incentive to refactor) until the vendors could rewrite their apps to use the new native filesystem. The more likely solution though is that longhorn will *default* to a \ rooted file system for fixed drives, rather than the current situation where it defaults to a set of drive letters.
