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Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a mirror image to the government's plan to empower some Americans to
check on their neighbors, under a program known as the Terrorism
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark cited the Bank of England, not U.S. law. I don't know what British
law is in this regard.
It does appear that the law in England is not as demanding as I believed:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm
The concept of legal tender is
Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also
akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web server
from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies according
to their website.
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At 02:17 AM 12/05/2002 +, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
OK, suppose we've got a bank that issues bearer money.
Who owns the bank? It should be owned by bearer shares, of course.
Why?
Or the propounders wanting to: make a profit/control the bank?
There are two main reasons honest people start
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On 9 Dec 2002 at 9:17, Tim May wrote:
Anyone in the U.S. can be declared an enemy combatant and
vanished away from lawyers, habeas corpus, the 6th Amendment,
and any semblance of the system of liberty we sort of had at
one time.
So far this has only been applied to people who are
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote:
Siliness, compounded. Show me a law about obligatory cameras in
cybercafes.
It's silly now. A few years back, the spook said that the NSA doesn't spy
on US citizens and won't because that was not its charter.
Tyler Durden said:
In a way, the potential and impending truth of Tim May's statement is for a
me a motivator to continue to promote strong crypto, ubiquitous Wi-Fi,
BlackNet, and so on. Hopefully it won't come down to the above.
It already has. And the hell with the horses -- tie the
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 03:23 AM, Marcel Popescu wrote:
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark cited the Bank of England, not U.S. law. I don't know what
British
law is in this regard.
It does appear that the law in England is not as demanding as I
believed:
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 06:56 AM, Tyler Durden wrote:
Frankly, millions of these fascists need a simple solution: a tree, a
horse, and a rope.
Damn. If it gets to the point where I'm a terrorist because some local
warlord doesn't like me (or thinks I disrespect his authority), then
Yeah, well terrorists use condoms and wear clothes too, so those are
terrorist tools also, so we should run around naked and have unprotected
sex just so we don't help the terrorists. Also, terrorists don't jump off
cliffs like lemmings, so we should do that too.
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:55 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
So far this has only been applied to people who are obviously
hostile muslim terrorist wannabees, but the program will be
steadily expanded. Indeed, part of the homeland security act
already aims at people who make cartridges
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Tyler Durden wrote:
In a state where Crypto is not resisted (OK, there probably aren't a
lot of these...perhaps in Europe or Canada?), Crypto defaults to the
above.
You really need to get up to speed on this issue if you think either
the nations of
Harmon Seaver writes:
Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also
akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web
server
from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies
according
to their website.
Their main service is serving static
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Got Reichstag?
Mmh, smells like victory.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Maybe somebody doesn't like the new look on my http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org
site.
heh, as someone who drives by Oshkosh a few times a year, I think that's a
great satire. Good luck staying alive :-)
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mike
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Phone booths already don't accept calls, by State Fiat. You think
detecting and dropping modem calls from a CO is tough?
It's just a matter of designing a (software ?) modem that will, instead of
whisling and peeping, emulate soccer mom
There was an article in the press a month or so ago about some
town that was trying hard to restrict cybercafe hours,
because of gang activity there - I'm not sure how much of it's
just the same nonsense that tried to restrict video-game parlors,
and how much of it's because the local bullies
Akamai also attempts to solve the problem of getting information to people
fast. They have a huge network of servers across the world, and for a price
will manage your content so that the important stuff is already as far along
the pipeline to the requesting user as possible. Most large
Marcel Popescu wrote:
It does appear that the law in England is not as demanding as I believed:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm
The concept of legal tender is often misunderstood. Contrary to popular
opinion, legal tender is not a means of payment that must be
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 07:29 PM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:52 PM -0800 on 12/9/02, Steve Schear wrote:
Haven't seen this discussed here.
Meaning there is one, or you want to start one?
SSShhh!, everyone! Don't tell Bob about Wikis and Blogs, else we'll be
inundated with a
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote:
These ap.tbo.com links don't work. I get ap.tbo.com can't be found. I
mentioned this a few days ago. I can do a whois on tbo.com alright, but a lookup
on ap.tbo.com says non-existant host/domain
They work fine for me at every site (machines at
At 4:52 PM -0800 on 12/9/02, Steve Schear wrote:
Haven't seen this discussed here.
Meaning there is one, or you want to start one?
Cheers,
RAH
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