RE: Amtrak The War On Drugs (gray travel)

2001-04-26 Thread Aimee Farr
Alan Olsen wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: I wrote, and to curb offlist replies, flames and comparisons to John Young, I write again: BTW, I need a gray travel consultant. Lemme know if anybody knows of one. Will accept salt-and-pepper gray. = low-key/anonymous

Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Mynott
Faustine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not about central planning at all. Making any policy without using rigorous data-based research to get a sense of the way things really are (through analysis and measurement) rather than the way your theory tells you they OUGHT to be, is a dangerous

No Subject

2001-04-26 Thread Aimee Farr
A complete dweeb wrote: Anyway, this is an old cpunk topic and there are some asses here,..snip *gulp* ASSETS. My apologies for a most inappropriate and unintentional remark, I slapped my spellchecker. ~Aimee

Re: [Fwd: YOU ARE INVITED: Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? -- Next Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)]

2001-04-26 Thread James A. Donald
-- Faustine demonstrating his cheerful ignorance of economics, and who is who in economics: [David Friedman has published . . .] Nothing good enough to get mentioned at NBER, the veritable gold standard William Vogt AER is usually considered the top economics journal. JPE is in

Re: [Fwd: YOU ARE INVITED: Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? -- Next Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)]

2001-04-26 Thread Faustine
Quoting James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Faustine demonstrating his (SIC) cheerful ignorance of economics, and who is who in economics: No need to get personal. I know how well-regarded Friedman is in Libertarian circles. Ignorant in many respects, certainly; about economics in general no.

BSE

2001-04-26 Thread mmotyka
Here's a question for you Tim, I'm sure you've read about BSE, scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeld-Jakob et al. Generally they seem to be species-specific but there is some crossover. Let's assume that feeding ground up livestock to livestock is a risky behavior. It goes on here in the U.S. How, in an

FT editorial: When Theft is Justified

2001-04-26 Thread Faustine
When theft is justified The limited abuse of copyright is a spur to scholarship, innovation and democracy Published: April 25 2001 19:36GMT | Last Updated: April 25 2001 19:48GMT Financial Times http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=Viewc=Articlecid=FT3RFUPBZLC 'We live in a

Re: FT editorial: When Theft is Justified

2001-04-26 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Faustine wrote: When theft is justified The limited abuse of copyright is a spur to scholarship, innovation and democracy Published: April 25 2001 19:36GMT | Last Updated: April 25 2001 19:48GMT Financial Times

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-04-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:11 PM 4/25/01 -0400, John Young wrote: Podesta noted that the 125th anniversary of the gummed-envelope was approaching. That that technology is trusted for privacy because of custom and law backing the custom. He stated that any privacy technology is going to be workable only if backed by

RE: BSE

2001-04-26 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Mike wrote: Here's a question for you Tim, I'd like to take a crack at it too. :-D Let's assume that feeding ground up livestock to livestock is a risky behavior. It goes on here in the U.S. How, in an unregulated system, do you get people to follow immediately practices that are in