Re: Codetalking in the South Pacific?

2002-11-13 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 12:46 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: Oh yeah, another thing I wanted to ask about, before I forget. It's somewhat well-known that throughout the South pacific, there are radio stations that do nothing but broadcast the real-time reading of number sequences, but

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) It's full of nut cases too :-) I have not, however, heretofore considered that there could exist systems that had some form of completeness built in. My intuition (which is

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
All religions are complete systems. Some people consider them useful, but I'm not sure it classifies as the real world. :-) I've wondered about that...I suspect that if God exists, then He is true but unprovable in any useful system! -TD PS: According to Godel's biographer, Godel at one point

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Peter Fairbrother
Jim Choate wrote: What I'd like to know is does Godel's apply to all forms of para-consistent logic as well And I replied: No. There are consistent systems, and complete systems, that do not admit Godel's theorem, but apparently not a system that is both (although even the last is

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

2002-11-13 Thread James A. Donald
The Yodel does not have a web site where yodels can be converted into some other form of money, and other forms of money converted into Yodels. Instead it has an IIRC bot. Use of this bot is described at http://yodel.deep-ice.com/bankbot.html This means a command line interface, to do

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 09:12 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: All religions are complete systems. Some people consider them useful, but I'm not sure it classifies as the real world. :-) I've wondered about that...I suspect that if God exists, then He is true but unprovable in any useful

Emergency Coercive Unit

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
a) Those friggin' war-posters are hilarious. b) Downstairs and across the street in front of Starbucks I just saw two NYC cops holding what looked like AK-47s...on their backs it said Emergency Coercive Unit. _ Protect your PC -

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn what a pack of geeks! (Looks like I might end up liking this list!) When we say complete, are we talking about completeness in the Godelian sense? According to Godel, and formal system (except for the possibility of the oddballs mentioned below--I hadn't heard of this possibility) is

Re: Emergency Coercive Unit

2002-11-13 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 10:59 -0500 on 11/13/02, Tyler Durden wrote: b) Downstairs and across the street in front of Starbucks I just saw two NYC cops holding what looked like AK-47s...on their backs it said Emergency Coercive Unit. I always knew New York was full of commie bastards. I thought they were smart

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Ben Laurie
Jim Choate wrote: What I'd like to know is does Godel's apply to all forms of para-consistent logic as well It applies to any sufficiently complex axiomatic system. Allegedly. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ There is no limit to what a

Re: CDR: Re: Codetalking in the South Pacific?

2002-11-13 Thread Marc de Piolenc
The ones we used to hear on the shortwave in Europe were enciphered transmissions to agents from their controllers. Most of the numbers broadcasts originated in the East Bloc, but there's no reason to suppose that the West didn't use them for agent communications as well. At least in the

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
Hmm, interesting -- how come the original of this came never came thru lne.com? And I think there's been at least a couple of others lately that I only saw in someone quote -- wasn't 100% sure about them, but I am this one. Gary Jeffers writes: The purpose of the coming Iraq war is

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Tyler Durden
How can anyone claim that the U.S. or Israel or corporations or rich Americans are morally worse than the likes of Hussein? Can't answer that directly, aside from pointing out that theUS is largely responsible for Hussein's rise to power. I could be argued that oil in our hands has created many

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Nomen Nescio
Gary Jeffers writes: The purpose of the coming Iraq war is to steal their oil. After we get Iraq oil, which arab country is next? If U. State can get away with the theft of Iraq, then why not just keep on stealing? The beneficiaries of this war are: 1. United State: 2. Corporations,

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Peter Fairbrother wrote: Jim Choate wrote: What I'd like to know is does Godel's apply to all forms of para-consistent logic as well And I replied: No. There are consistent systems, and complete systems, that do not admit Godel's theorem, but apparently not

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Sam Ritchie
From: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:12:34 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto All religions are complete systems. Some people consider them useful, but I'm not sure it classifies as the real world. :-)

Re: The End of the Golden Age of Crypto

2002-11-13 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sam Ritchie wrote: That's the whole deal with the bible, and its various internal contradictions. If anything can be proven true in the bible, then there's no room for faith anymore, which nullifies religious beliefs; and if anything can be proven false, then there's no

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:10:13AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Gary Jeffers writes: The purpose of the coming Iraq war is to steal their oil. After we get Iraq oil, which arab country is next? If U. State can get away with the theft of Iraq, then why not just keep on stealing? The

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

2002-11-13 Thread Marshall Clow
[ I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but there might be someone out there who could benefit from this. ] Tyler Durden wrote: Aside from this is the issue of continued American dependence on oil, a dependence that could be greatly reduced if we put our minds to it, but we seem to be so