Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Anonymous
Tim is absolutely right -- we need a new Timmy McVeigh everyday. The people in that building were feds, the kids were fed kids. Unfortunate for the kids, but so what? Nits turn into lice. How many kids died at Waco?

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Monday 18 November 2002 04:03 pm, Eric Cordian wrote: Someone posted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special, secretive appeals court on Monday said the U.S. government has the right to use expanded powers to wiretap suspected terrorism suspects under a law adopted by

Re: FC: Weekly column: Washington's new role in computer security

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:02 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://news.com.com/2010-1069-966164.html Perspective: Say hello to Big Brother By Declan McCullagh November 18, 2002, 7:05 AM PT WASHINGTON--Like it or not, the proposed Department of Homeland Security firmly establishes

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Tim May
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 12:59 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: These aren't meant as rhetorical I'm making a really good point questions, but actual questions. Depending on your answer, I wonder how you feel about the WTC (along with a few thousand people) getting taken out by an American

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Sunder
But you forget - the BATF agents were all beeped and informed to not bother to come in to work that day, and instead met up elsewhere, suited up so they could arrive just in time (a few minutes after the boom) to be heroic. That indicates something, what exactly it indicates is left as an

Re: Retry: Yet another attempt to defraud egold!

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Frantz
At 10:42 AM -0800 11/15/02, Sunder wrote: What's disturbing about this is that we are on someone's list as e-gold customers or something, and this is very likely the same spoofer that had earlier set up e-golb.com and attempted the same kind of spoof. FWIW, I got one of the e-gold letters. I

Re: Retry: Yet another attempt to defraud egold!

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 02:27 PM 11/18/2002 -0800, Bill Frantz wrote: At 10:42 AM -0800 11/15/02, Sunder wrote: What's disturbing about this is that we are on someone's list as e-gold customers or something, and this is very likely the same spoofer that had earlier set up e-golb.com and attempted the same kind of

Re: Assassination Politics: Coming soon?

2002-11-19 Thread Tim May
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Mike Diehl wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 07:24 pm, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Keith Ray wrote: It's been a number of years since Jim Bell wrote his infamous Assassination Politics essay. If someone were to try to implement the

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Rosing
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Sunder wrote: But you forget - the BATF agents were all beeped and informed to not bother to come in to work that day, and instead met up elsewhere, suited up so they could arrive just in time (a few minutes after the boom) to be heroic. That indicates something, what

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Keith Ray
Quoting Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Third, there are good reasons why two of our list members have been sentenced to long jail terms by Big Brother, why some have fled the country, and why the Treasury Department's Criminal Investigation Unit published my SS number and declared in documents

buying gold

2002-11-19 Thread AARG! Anonymous
I decided to look into these DMT Rands that everyone has been yammering about. I'm not terribly surprised to see that they are a product of the Laissez Faire City grifters. No thanks. This little investigation did spark my interest in aquiring gold, however. Do readers of this list have

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

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
All of your comments are very reasonable. I agree with most of them. However, I have to take issue with your comments on drugs and employment, and how we have hurt the Afghan people. As to drugs and employment. I'm glad to see that you recognized that a programer, like myself, has far fewer

ignore the article on computational issues I sent to the CP list

2002-11-19 Thread Tim May
I'm sitting here, late, waiting to go out to my hot tub to catch the peak of the Leonids. Which is why I accidentally sent my article intended for the Everything list to this list by accident. If the topic interests you, the usual searching around will find the Everything list. It's a quiet

Re: KK wired article on TOE etc

2002-11-19 Thread Tim May
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as just noted by TCM, kevin kelly on a computational/algorithmic TOE, wolfram, wheeler, etcetera, from current issue of wired. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html I would say we are all in the midst of

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
So there's plenty of meat for conspiracy theory for a long time to come Dave Emory has documented possible links between McVeigh and neo-fascist groups. Search through http://www.spitfirelist.com/. He also extensively documents connections between the Bush family and the bin Ladens

Re: KK wired article on TOE etc

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KK wired article on TOE etc Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:48:40 -0800 On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as just noted by TCM, kevin kelly on a computational/algorithmic TOE, wolfram, wheeler,

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

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
If we left them alone, we'd be in constant fear of various types of terrorism funded by many governments in that region. We'd always be a hostage to OPEC. These are probably the same arguments used by our state department, and I have to take exception with them. US involvement with the middle

Re: KK wired article on TOE etc

2002-11-19 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:48 AM 11/19/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote: On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course Wolfram's book is a big seller. I won't comment, except that I see no particularly strong evidence that he has changed the way science is done, or will be done. Others

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

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 08:26 am, Tyler Durden wrote: If we left them alone, we'd be in constant fear of various types of terrorism funded by many governments in that region. We'd always be a hostage to OPEC. These are probably the same arguments used by our state

Re: Confiscation of Anti-War Video

2002-11-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:11:51AM -0800, Tim May wrote: Alice uses a laptop or beltpack machine, with a Webcam or DV camcorder. (Minor details of using the laptop while closed...some laptops support this, others shut down. Hence the mention of beltpack/gargoyle machines.) [...] Alice

Re: Secret Court Says U.S. Has Broad Wiretap Powers

2002-11-19 Thread Ken Hirsch
But you forget - the BATF agents were all beeped and informed to not bother to come in to work that day, and instead met up elsewhere, suited up so they could arrive just in time (a few minutes after the boom) to be heroic. That indicates something, what exactly it indicates is left as an

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

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Granted. I wish we could go back to isolationism, but as the worlds only remaining Super Power, that seems unlikely. No matter what we do, we simply can't win. When faced with a game I can't win, I either decide to not play, or I cheat. For the US, the first isn't an option.

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

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:59 am, Tyler Durden wrote: Granted. I wish we could go back to isolationism, but as the worlds only remaining Super Power, that seems unlikely. No matter what we do, we simply can't win. When faced with a game I can't win, I either

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

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 13:14 -0700 on 11/19/02, Mike Diehl wrote: On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:02 pm, Kevin Elliott wrote: Correction in the interest of historical accuracy. The idea that we succeeded in the revolutionary war by inventing a new form of warfare. The reality is that the british

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

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:18 pm, Trei, Peter wrote: If you think 'the Muslims' are your enemy, then you have a problem. I never said that they were MY enemy. 'The Muslims' are not a monolithic group, and have no central leadership. This is a bit like

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

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Elliott
At 10:37 -0700 on 11/19/02, Mike Diehl wrote: Unfortunately, terrorism is probably a predictable response by people who want to be able to control their own destinies, select their own leaders and forms of goivernment and so on. Yes, it's just a new form of warfare. During the

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

2002-11-19 Thread Mike Diehl
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:02 pm, Kevin Elliott wrote: Correction in the interest of historical accuracy. The idea that we succeeded in the revolutionary war by inventing a new form of warfare. The reality is that the british were marching in formation for very, very

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

2002-11-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Mike Diehl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes [much snippage] . No, I think the Muslims need to back down, or be forced to. [more snippage] If you think 'the Muslims' are your enemy, then you have a problem. 'The Muslims' are not a monolithic group, and

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. W ho's ne

2002-11-19 Thread Trei, Peter
Kevin Elliott[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] At 10:37 -0700 on 11/19/02, Mike Diehl wrote: Unfortunately, terrorism is probably a predictable response by people who want to be able to control their own destinies, select their own leaders and forms of goivernment and so on. Yes, it's

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

2002-11-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 19 Nov 2002 at 12:02, Kevin Elliott wrote: If you read between the lines of US history, you'll discover that America did not begin to succeed in the war until late in the war when the troops had become better trained and disciplined. This is not my interpretation. Rather, the

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

2002-11-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Mikey: I would suggest tangling with Chomsky for a bit. Start with... http://zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11ItemID=2312 And then go from there. I have to agree with Peter Trei that your arguments sound pretty pre-packaged and freeze-dried, very similar to the pablum the American