At 12:14 AM -0700 10/20/00, petro wrote:
At 1:39 PM -0400 10/18/00, Tim May wrote:
There's also a very scarce compilation of "The Peace War" and
"Marooned in Realtime" which is called "Across Realtime." It
contains "The Ungoverned" in between the two novels. Good luck in
finding it, though.
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On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:17:17PM -0700, petro wrote:
Even if they do (which I haven't heard of, but I could be wrong), the
trend right now is more corporate power, less governmental power. As
I said before, we are already seeing this
Come on, lighten up. The guy's receiving spam, and like most people,
he gets pissed about it. So he sends a nasty email to the address in
the From: line of the spams. Can you blame him?
He's not getting spam. He's been subscribed to the
cypherpunks list by someone.
OK.
Two Things:
1. It sounds like to me that there is no room for human compassion in
crypto-anarchy.
(Seems like we will all end up sitting in our "compounds" armed to the
teeth and if anybody comes along we either blow'em to bits or pay them
anonymous digital cash
to go away).
There
At 9:11 PM -0500 10/18/00, Neil Johnson wrote:
Two Things:
1. It sounds like to me that there is no room for human compassion in
crypto-anarchy.
(Seems like we will all end up sitting in our "compounds" armed to the
teeth and if anybody comes along we either blow'em to bits or pay them
Another socialist simp-wimp heard from.
Lots of socialists to be dealt with and disposed of. I wonder who
will stoke the furnaces?
Not very many if enough of us "simp-wimps" gather enough e-cash to create
our own
"Imprisonment Betting Pool".
I think languishing in jail with life-mate
Tim May wrote:
At 11:38 PM -0400 10/18/00, Steve Furlong wrote:
At most, an insurance company would have some information Bob didn't
have. Bob could reasonably demand a copy of the results of his DNA test.
...
If the insurance company refused, he could shop elsewhere. Or
self-insure,
Most insurance companies are worth millions, if not billions, of
dollars, and they make huge profits. Insuring all of the people that
they now deny based on genetic abnormalities would still allow them to
make decent profits.
So? Where is it mandated that they cover those?
In
This is why the current American system where virtually everyone's
insurance pays for virtually every visit to the doctor is such a
bad idea. People should be paying for their ordinary, year-in
year-out health care. Insurance should only enter the picture if
The system only works
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Neil Johnson wrote:
But the Bob has no control of his risk (genetics), or at least not yet :).
The insurance company does.
Say What?! Sorry, no insurance company has the power to say who
is and is not born with particular genetics.
I don't have a problem with insurance
This list is no stranger to Tim May's sarcasm and anti-semitic rants.
He's bashing a completely facist and dictatorial country of
which a sizeable number of citizens are completely willing to commit
genocide of the very same kind that was once waged against them.
I cannot
Your neighbor pollutes your lungs or your land and you don't know
what to do about it? Shit man, get real -- $5 bucks worth of gasoline
and a midnight stroll takes care of his house, him, and his family.
Burning someones house down is *REALLY* bad for the air and
land around the
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Typical of May to wish that those who he hates be nuked, but please don'tt
let it effect his portfolio.
so? in that respect he's a great relief from all the "houlier than thou"
"for the chiiildren" pseudo-moralists.
in the end, nobody cares if he's not affected.
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At 2:45 PM -0700 on 10/19/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
"teergrube"
Cool.
An email version of the spider-trap somebody built at Sandia 4 or 5 years ago.
Teergrube means "tarpit", right?
Marvellous, just marvellous. Hang out on this list, you learn something,
even if everyone knows it before you
Right. While I feel some sense of moral obligation to feel compassion
for victims of genocide in Africa, the reality is that traffic in
downtown Washington affects me more.
To paraphrase:
One person dying is a tragedy
One million dying is a statistic
One billion lost in NASDAQ value is a
At 2:11 PM +0300 10/20/00, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Marshall Clow wrote:
So these people are entitled to something for nothing?
(or in this case, $1500 of treatment for $1000 of premiums)?
Why?
Because keeping people operable longer makes for net savings for the
society?
See:
http://www.pscu.com/Newsbytes/2000/156920.html
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/body/0,1634,500270563-500421503-502621147-0,00.html
Let's put this problem in perspective, and try to avoid the "chicken little, the sky
is falling" syndrome.
It's quite unlikely that someone would come up with "Eureka!" type of solution to
factoring large numbers that would end up completely breaking RSA, or that some way
would be found to
Of course all of us knew this. The article is
good for explaining to non-technical friends.
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB972002214791170991.htm
October 20, 2000
Electronic Form of 'Invisible Ink'
Inside Files May Reveal Secrets
By MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET
From: "Nathan Saper" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So these people are entitled to something for nothing?
(or in this case, $1500 of treatment for $1000 of premiums)?
That's the whole idea of insurance, isn't it?
The point of insurance is to pool resources and spread risk; it
isn't a ponzi scheme.
If
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:30:40AM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
Nathan Saper wrote:
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:02:44AM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
Nathan Saper wrote:
Nathan seems to be arguing that insurance companies should be forced
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
I read the Massey and Maurer paper (One can find it at
http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/publications/isipap/umaure-mass-inspec-1993-
1.pdf ) and I have a couple of comments on it.
This is just silly. There's nothing wrong with Rijndael.
-Bram Cohen
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:26:48PM -0500, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 22:42 -0700 10/18/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
Coverage is most often less expensive than care. Therefore, one may
be able to afford the coverage, but not afford the care, if it ends up
At 11:50 AM -0600 10/20/2000, Bob Jueneman wrote:
Let's put this problem in perspective, and try to avoid the "chicken
little, the sky is falling" syndrome.
It's quite unlikely that someone would come up with "Eureka!" type
of solution to factoring large numbers that would end up completely
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Of course all of us knew this. The article is
good for explaining to non-technical friends.
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB972002214791170991.htm
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