Re: Re: Knowing your customer

2000-12-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 12:47 PM 12/6/00 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: You're thinking of something else, but you're close enough. For instance, there are laws in most jurisdictions about requiring a social security number to open a bank account, for any of a number of reasons including credit checks, and checks on

Re: FC: Yet Another Survey: Americans have become privacy pragmatists

2000-12-12 Thread Duncan Frissell
Business President Alan Westin says that more Americans now fall into the category of "privacy pragmatist" rather than "privacy fundamentalist." Ron Plesser of Piper Marbury Rudnick Wolf says that the Internet industry must determine how to properly use Social Security numbers. "Regulating

Enhanced Taxpatriate's Page

2000-11-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
The original Official Taxpatriates Page just keeps getting better. I've cleaned up some of the text and added a JFile database of Taxpatriates for those who use JFile on Palm devices. Here it is: http://www.frissell.com/taxpat/taxpats.pdb As always, the Official Taxpatriates Page can be

Re: Biochem convention violates privacy rights, study says

2000-09-28 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 11:03 AM 9/28/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: Cato Institute News Release September 28, 2000 Enforcement Of Biological Weapons Convention Would Be Unconstitutional Protocol would violate Fourth, Fifth Amendments and appointments clause The appointments clause. I love it. Are right wing

would it be so much to ask..

2000-09-22 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 02:23 PM 9/22/00 +0100, Ken Brown wrote: The trouble with that use of the words (though it is the most common one on this list I guess) is that it defines just about every nation-state that ever existed as "fascist" including the so-called capitalist countries: "if you don't manage it the

Re: Bill Joy suggests limits to freedom and research.

2000-03-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 11:20 AM 3/15/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I'd like to suggest that people take a serious look at Bill Joy's "Why the future doesn't need us", the cover article in the current Wired magazine. It can be found online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html. I printed it out and

Re: Offshore Banks to be Excommunicated

2000-03-05 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 08:32 AM 3/2/00 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: NEW YORK (AP) -- The Clinton administration intends to ask Congress for new power to combat money laundering, including the authority to ban financial transactions between U.S. institutions and offshore financial centers, The New York Times reported

Re: Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re: why worry?)

2000-03-02 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 12:29 PM 3/1/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: Capitalism is not equivalent to freedom in any manner. If anything the pursuit of capitalist goals has driven more abuse than help by many orders of magnitude. There is a reason the Constitution doesn't mention business rights or commerce in general

Re: Re: why worry?

2000-03-02 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 12:10 AM 3/1/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote: At 11:27 PM 02/26/2000 -0500, Petro wrote: Theft of property *is* the initiation of force. Theft of property is initiation of bad behavior, but not necessarily force. Robbery of property is initiation of force ("yer money or yer life",

Re: Re: why worry?

2000-02-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 09:44 PM 2/13/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: Megacorp are every bit as evil as governments are. The destruction of the state and multinational corps go hand-in-hand. In fact, they probably are even more evil -- and certainly more efficient in their evil. Governments derive all their

Re: NWA computer seizureg;

2000-02-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
Northwest Airlines last week began court-authorized searches of the home computers of flight attendants whom the airline suspects organized a sick-out over the New Year's holiday. Two computer forensic experts, hired by Northwest, seized the computers of a They didn't seize his computers. He

Re: NWA computer seizureg;

2000-02-15 Thread Duncan Frissell
Again, these people permitted the search under threat from a court order but they could have resisted. One possibility - "I am not saying whether or not I own any computers (actually printouts or digital storage media) or where they are - prove I do you copraphaegic cretins." I'd love to