Re: CDR: Are YOU looking for a new website, to develop an existing website, for cheaper hosting or domain names?

2002-07-13 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Given that you are a Web hosting company, I am surprised to see no URL for further information. Marc de Piolenc Look at This wrote: Are YOU looking for a new website, to develop an existing website, for cheaper hosting or domain names? We are a UK based company who would like to offer

Re: Tax consequences...

2002-07-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Nomen Nescio wrote: So what you are suggesting is that I might as well take out US citizenship, since the IRS behaves just as piratically and imperially to anyone who gets a job in the US? Considering only taxes, I think that's correct. You do need to consider other things, such as what

Re: CDR: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen

2002-07-10 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Nomen Nescio wrote: Are you saying that if someone is legally resident in the US for a while, the US IRS will attempt to get his assets all over the world forever? I find this hard to believe. Not necessarily get them, but tax them. Believe! Marc de Piolenc -- Remember September 11,

Re: CDR: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Basically, none. A US resident is taxed just like a citizen. In fact, even if you are not a green card holder, but have a substantial presence in the US, you are still taxed like a citizen. Marc de Piolenc An Metet wrote: What are the tax implications of a US resident green card holder, with

Re: CDR: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Basically, none. A US resident is taxed just like a citizen. In fact, even if you are not a green card holder, but have a substantial presence in the US, you are still taxed like a citizen. Marc de Piolenc An Metet wrote: What are the tax implications of a US resident green card holder, with

Re: CDR: 'Enigma' reviewed in Salon.

2002-04-22 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Ultra originated in Poland, not Britain. The wartime decryption work was of course carried out in Britain, but without the prewar seed work of the Poles it would probably have been futile. Marc de Piolenc matthew X wrote: It's not the great movie yet to be made on the subject, but I'm sure

Re: CDR: 'Enigma' reviewed in Salon.

2002-04-22 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Ultra originated in Poland, not Britain. The wartime decryption work was of course carried out in Britain, but without the prewar seed work of the Poles it would probably have been futile. Marc de Piolenc matthew X wrote: It's not the great movie yet to be made on the subject, but I'm sure

Re: CDR: Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-12 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
A. Melon wrote: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think about. No, we have AC because AC works

Re: CDR: Re: Among the Bourgeoisophobes

2002-04-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Gil Hamilton wrote: F. Marc de Piolenc forwards: Among the Bourgeoisophobes Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/102gwtnf.asp It may be true that they hate freedom in some

Re: CDR: Re: overcoming ecash deployment problems (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
A. Melon wrote: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 06:59 AM, Mike Rosing wrote: But the reason we have AC today is because Tesla requested no royalties on his motor/generator. Something for Brands to think about. No, we have AC because AC works

Among the Bourgeoisophobes

2002-04-11 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Among the Bourgeoisophobes Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/102gwtnf.asp -- Remember September 11, 2001 but don't forget July 4, 1776 They that can give up essential liberty to

Re: CDR: Re: Julia Child was a Spook

2002-04-06 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
/02 +0800, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Nonsense. If you can't see any difference between terrorists and risistants you are either wilfully ignorant or confused. Terrorist is what the bigger side of an asymmetrical conflict call the smaller side. Also crazy, and other intended-derogatory labels.

Re: CDR: Re: Julia Child was a Spook

2002-04-06 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've been listening to Shrub to much. What makes you think this is about hating freedom? Might this not be about getting us to mind our own fucking business??? I really don't give a fig about the opinions of the current resident of the White House. I've been

Re: CDR: Julia Child was a Spook

2002-04-06 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Nonsense. If you can't see any difference between terrorists and résistants you are either wilfully ignorant or confused. A terrorist strikes symbolic targets, preferably undefended ones. A résistant strikes at the occupying power. Of course it is possible for one and the same person to be both

Accolade?

2002-03-14 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Ask a Booch accolade to define 'simple' and 'complex' sometime. I think you mean acolyte, as in disciple or follower, not accolade as in praise... If you like using ten-dollar words (and I do), keep a dictionary handy. Marc de Piolenc

Re: CDR: PSYOPS/Foreign agent John W. Rendon Jr: Osama Comic?

2002-02-19 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
A few details that make me doubt the authenticity of this news item, or perhaps the accuracy with which it is reported. Major Variola (ret) wrote: General Worden envisions a broad mission ranging from black campaigns that use disinformation and other covert

Re: CDR: Re: What Kind Of Government......

2002-02-07 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Steve Schear wrote: I was having trouble understanding the thought constructs that these judges use to arrive at their application and interpretation of the constitutional issues until I came across a copy of a 1995 treatise by Larry Lessig, Translating Federalism: United States v Lopez.

Re: CDR: Re: Property Rights

2002-01-28 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Jim Choate wrote: Property rights don't exist as absolute human rights. Nonsense. It is impossible to logically separate property rights from the right to life. I disagree. Life Property. One can have life

Re: CDR: Property Rights

2002-01-27 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: Property rights don't exist as absolute human rights. Nonsense. It is impossible to logically separate property rights from the right to life. The right to life is absolute, therefore the right to property is, too. Marc de Piolenc

Re: CDR: James Bovard On Fighting Terrorism, Saving Tyrants

2002-01-15 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jei wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:17:53 -0500 From: Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Matthew Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: James Bovard On Fighting Terrorism, Saving Tyrants Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 23:21:08 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The vital private archive

2002-01-15 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Dear Michael, Wow - two minds with but one set of thoughts. Michael Motyka wrote: Won't it be wonderful if the Court rules in favor of the 1st? OTOH, why trust in a corruptible legal system? Use cash and don't leave the ID information at the goddam bookstore in the first place. If

Re: CDR: Rogue terror state violates Geneva Convention

2002-01-14 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Petro wrote: On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 04:27 AM, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: What's good for the goose should be good for the gander, ya? Nonsense. No reasonable definition of criminal conduct would put the US government and al-Quaeda in the same category. How about

Re: CDR: Rogue terror state violates Geneva Convention

2002-01-13 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
mattd wrote: US violates the Geneva Convention The US is a signatory to the Geneva Convention, which specifies the conditions under which such prisoners are to be treated. The Convention covers irregular forces such as al-Qaeda as well as regular armed forces, Al-Quaeda is not a military

Re: CDR: Re: Shoe bomb (fwd)

2002-01-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
It will work - provided that you provide a trained anesthetist for every four or so passengers. There's no such thing as a safe, stable anesthetic. Marc de Piolenc Marcel Popescu wrote: The following article is pretty unsettling, in that it makes the case that - the technique is

Re: CDR: Re: Random Data Compressed 100:1 (Guffaw)

2002-01-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
I think they may be referring to a random string of _ASCII characters_. That would be subject to compression because it is not random at the bit level. But 100:1? I have no idea how to achieve that. Marc de Piolenc Declan McCullagh wrote: What exactly is random data? Does it have to appear

Re: CDR: Re: End of the IRS??

2002-01-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Hey folks - you need to keep in mind that the not ratified argument is not what will be discussed, and for obvious reasons. The IRS is not competent to comment on whether their marching orders were or were not properly ratified by the People. It is the actual content of their statutory authority

Re: CDR: Re: Who Am I Anyway?

2001-12-14 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it. I have zero problem with that assertion. However, lying about ones age

Re: CDR: My week in Manila:Dial M for Mayhem.

2001-12-14 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
You need to get away from Manila, Mattd. It just ain't the Philippines, any more than Paris is France. Also: give yourself some time for acclimation before writing. I'm glad I didn't see this piece in '96 before I first came here, because I would have had a completely false impression of the

Re: CDR: Re: Who Am I Anyway?

2001-12-13 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
It is clear that whatever ID procedures were in effect, they were not effective. Many enlistees lied about their ages and got away with it. Marc de Piolenc Duncan Frissell wrote: At 05:10 PM 12/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: Which is beside your point. Your statement was that the government

Re: CDR: Re: FreeSWAN US export controls

2001-12-12 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: Sigh. Choate on court decisions is like Ashcroft on civil liberties. Neither understands them. Ad hominim, ad hominim, ad nausium. Gee - don't you think that if you're going to use hifalutin terms like ad hominem and

Re: CDR: Re: HDCP break and DMCA

2001-11-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Tim May wrote: Answer: they do! Go to any large copying center near a university and look for professor packs or HistCon 101 Course Materials consisting of copied material out of various textbooks, hard and soft. The deal is that the student takes the professor pack over to a copy machine

Re: CDR: Re: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-19 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
And you might mention for the nuclearly impaired that the fuel used in RTGs is not the same as the fissionables used in reactors and weapons. Marc de Piolenc Eric Cordian wrote: Peter Trei wrote: I have a vague memory of seeing a photo of a ?3 inch? ball of Pu (isotopic composition

Re: CDR: HOWTO Build a Nuclear Device

2001-11-17 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
A couple of corrections from somebody who began studying this threat fifteen years ago. There is little danger to weapons builders from exposure to fissile materials, because they have very little spontaneous radioactivity. The radioactive emissions come when the device goes supercritical during

Re: CDR: Re: Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

2001-11-09 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Tim May wrote: I would like to read these papers. Are they available on-line? If they are, search engines will very likely have indexed them. I would do the search for you, but your retainer has expired. Just thought you might know offhand. Search engines it is... Marc de Piolenc

Re: CDR: Security-by-credential or security-by-inspection

2001-11-08 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Tim May wrote: Nomen Nescio and others should read Chaum's Credentials without identity papers. A true name is just another credential, not necessarily more important than any of several other credentials. People should think deeply about this issue. I would like to read these papers. Are

Re: CDR: Re: First Polygraphs and Then Torture?

2001-11-05 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
An even more basic point is punishment - for what? These people are SUSPECTS, against whom no criminal act has yet been proven in open court. They are not yet eligible for punishment in any form. Marc de Piolenc Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote: You

Re: CDR: MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2001® - Delta Force gets bloody nose, intensity scares the crap out of everybody...

2001-11-04 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
O-kay - the learning process begins. In every war we've ever fought, we've learned from our opponents - if the political leadership gave us the opportunity to do it. Now we know the Talibs have small, heavily armed forces staked out NEXT TO obvious fixed objectives. Our next assaults will be in

Re: CDR: re: Using Thermite to Drop Suspension Bridges...and U.S. plansto

2001-11-02 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
I would be interested to see that formula. I thought I knew them all, but all the thermite formulas I know require at least a two-stage initiator or a direct blowtorch flame. Also, the formulas I've seen prescribe much larger particle sizes than the colloidal range used in pigments, to keep

Re: CDR: Transperancy Spray?

2001-11-01 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
You can find formulas for this spray in many formularies - it's been used at least as far back as WWI for making an envelope transparent for a few minutes. Actually, translucent would be a better term, as you can only read text that is right up against the inside of the envelope. What is more,

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-28 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you cannot tell the difference between terrorists and freedom fighters, you got shit for brains. The revolutionaries killed british soldiers in America. They did not go to england and kill english children. Why

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-26 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: Why? The Americans were most certainly terrorist/revolutionaries/freedom fighters/etc. Again, you make no distinction between freedom fighters and terrorists, which is very sad because there is a rather important difference. Being incapable of making the distinction, you

Re: CDR: [psychohistory] Two mistakes (fwd)

2001-10-26 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: Nations with imperial aspirations, invariably, throughout History change their conscript based army in favor of an army of paid soldiers. Today euphimisticaly called 'profesional' soldiers, but know also as mercenaries and soldiers of fortune in the not-so-distant past.

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-26 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
David Honig wrote: At 12:42 PM 10/25/01 +0800, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Jim Choate wrote: We need to send a message that armed propaganda is not an acceptable form of self-expression, no matter what the alleged cause. Review the American revolution and the current news before

Re: CDR: 'Privacy Council' in defense of M$

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Peter Capelli wrote: If you start at zero, 50% is only 50 cents, Ponemon said. Where did he learn math, I wonder? Marc de Piolenc

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: We need to send a message that armed propaganda is not an acceptable form of self-expression, no matter what the alleged cause. Review the American revolution and the current news before you follow this little meme very far. ..and your point is...? Marc de Piolenc

Re: CDR: [psychohistory] A Terrorist's Nursery (fwd)

2001-10-25 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: But Nato's escape clause won't work this time round. For as the Afghan refugees turn up in their thousands at the border, it is palpably evident that they are fleeing not the Taliban but our bombs and missiles. The Taliban is not ethnically cleansing its own Pashtun

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Jim Choate wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote: Elementary - fair is whatever the parties in interest agree to. Period. 'agree' is synonymous with 'free' in this case. All you're doing is playing word games and hand waving. What does it mean to 'agree'? You

Re: CDR: Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-24 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
David Honig wrote: Personally I'd prefer a non-colonial foreign policy that doesn't generate such antipathy. And if you believe that WTC had anything to do with US foreign policy, or that we would cease being targets if we e.g. dropped suppport for Israel, you are living in a dream world and

Re: CDR: Your papers please

2001-10-18 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
Sounds like we need to be dictating into cellphones, with remote recording! Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the Terry stop escalated, and I was ordered to follow the officer for more questioning, I asked him, while holding out the recorder for the answer, whether I was under

Re: CDR: Re: Dealing with Islamic terrorists, and with Afghanistan

2001-10-05 Thread F. Marc de Piolenc
YOu need to understand that terrorism has its own ideology, which has nothing to do with whatever the terrorist du jour espouses publicly. All that the actions proposed below would do is infuriate REAL Muslims, who are not yet our enemies and need not be. Marc de Piolenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]