On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Neil Johnson wrote:
It's not a zero-sum game for the insurance companies. Most insurance
companies make quite a bit of money investing premiums.
Yes, and so could their clients if not doing business with the
insurance companies.
In addition, they spread the risk. They
At 1:10 PM -0400 10/18/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Speaking of "The Ungoverned", I've been looking for it, can't find
it in libraries, Amazon, or Bibliofind, so I'm thinking that it was in a
collection? Does anyone know which?
It's in one of the two paperback collections of Vinge's short
At 1:39 PM -0400 10/18/00, Tim May wrote:
At 1:10 PM -0400 10/18/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Speaking of "The Ungoverned", I've been looking for it, can't find
it in libraries, Amazon, or Bibliofind, so I'm thinking that it was in a
collection? Does anyone know which?
It's in one of the
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Usenet and mailing lists were usable by the cognoscenti from the
mid-80s up to the "modern age." Using gopher and Archie and
anonymous ftp was for the cognoscenti only, though. Not much fun for
ordinary folks.
This obviously all changed around 1994, with Mosaic/Netscape. "Point
and
At 12:24 AM 10/19/00 -0700, Petro wrote:
I need a perl module or a function that would perform symmetric key
encryption/decryption. I need it to encode secret information in
URLs. Thanks
I thought you were brighter than that Igor.
Both of those arguments are incorrect.
Anonymous has no business telling us how anarchic we can be :-)
If people want to voluntarily engage in hierarchical relationships,
that's still anarchy. And you can still have leaders in anarchies -
it's just that if they screw up and find there's nobody
Most computers in 1986 weren't up to it. Many of us were using Apple II
computers with something like 278x192 resolution (in single hi res mode).
Imagine such a beast doing networking. Ick.
I was using dumb terminals (initially HP; later ATT VT100 clones).
Much better resolution than PCs,
Who is to blame for hurricanes?
"God", but so far he seems rather judgement proof.
Haiti, for not stopping them before they reach Florida?
Who is to blame for a bee flying into your mouth while you are driving?
(which, if you've never had it happen, leads quickly to a car crash)
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? This perhaps isn't a reason for *private* companies
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
How does crypto-anarchy/libertarian/anarchy propose to deal with the
"tragedy of the commons" where by doing what is best for each persons own
interests they end up screwing it up for everyone (Overgrazing land with to
many cattle is the example
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/20/business/20BANK.html
October 20, 2000 - New York Times (front page)
Taking Aim at Tax Havens, I.R.S. Seeks Credit Card Slips
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
The Internal Revenue Service, struggling against Caribbean
havens it suspects of
If you'd like, forward this to the cypherpunks list (if it rejects
submissions from non-members).
Mr. Armey told the Washington Post that he thought Carnivore was illegal.
That should answer the question quite sufficiently, I think. But I might as
well add the justification:
"The American
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 breaking RSA, or that some
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:23:25PM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote:
At 10:07 PM -0700 10/18/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:01:20PM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote:
At 9:27 PM -0700 10/18/00, Nathan Saper wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:23:19AM -0400, Steve Furlong wrote:
Nathan Saper wrote:
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:36:52PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
"What if nobody will sell Bob the food he wants for the price he is
willing or able to pay? Then
At 8:13 PM -0400 10/11/2000, John Kelsey wrote:
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I was thinking it might be useful to define a "Paranoid
Encryption Standard (PES)" that is a concatenation of all
five AES finalists, applied in
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:38:12PM +, Gil Hamilton wrote:
Nathan Saper gropes:
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
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 12:25:55PM -0700, David Honig wrote:
At 05:48 PM 10/18/00 -0700, Nathan Saper wrote:
So are you saying that there is nothing wrong with the government
doing the corporations' dirty work?
A govt has an obligation to
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 01:23:32AM -0700, petro wrote:
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
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Marshall Clow wrote:
Because keeping people operable longer makes for net savings for the
society?
That's a nice belief. Can you show it to be true?
In a society where a significant part of an individual's life is spent
nonproductively and high productivity generally means
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 04:14:29PM -0400, Matt Elliott wrote:
As to care, as I've said a lot before, care is most often more
expensive than coverage.
Clearly this can't be true or every health insurance company would be going
out of business.
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
don't know what version of Word these guys are running, but "Track
Changes" works astoundingly often for me on outside mail, to general
hilarity at my law office, not "Properties." Sorry he's letting the
secret out, in any event:)
Purely as an intellectual exercise, of course, some of us have
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