Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Frantz
At 2:59 PM -0800 3/19/03, Tim May wrote: The greater threat is that access to one's home is impaired, or a car breakdown occurs, which is why carrying a bag in a vehicle makes so much sense: a shovel for digging out, a few blankets or a sleeping bag, water, a flashlight, flares and other road

FBI discovers missing original copy of the Bill of Rights

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Stewart
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/19/bill.of.rights/ http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5432311.htm http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5431087.htm In 1789, after the Bill of Rights was ratified, George Washington commissioned 13 handwritten parchment copies to be

HAVENCO shut down?

2003-03-20 Thread anonimo arancio
Has anyone noticed all the sites hosted at havenco (www.seagold.net, i www.thegoldcasino.com, lists.havenco.com) seem to be down? Is this suspiciously due to the war in iraq, or just routine outage?

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: The design of current glass-tower skyscrapers encourages glass fragment blowthrough by the shockwave, which will result in massive injuries (simulated on pigs in wind tunnels it abraded flesh to the bone in seconds, it would

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: At 01:37 PM 03/19/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: But as it the only terrorist attack (from non-US citizens, that is), was on 9/11/01. Were there ANY others? Sure. Besides the earlier truck-bombing of the WTC, there were Waco and

Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread stuart
Oh well, so much for diplomacy. :D I wonder if anything good is on TV! ===8==Original message text=== Informer alert: War begins in Iraq 20 March 2003 War has been declared against Iraq by the US President George Bush. Initial air strikes have been launched on Baghdad,

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the current Ba'athist government. A lot of

RE: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Trei, Peter
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but many offices don't allow handguns inside, even if locked in a case or backpack. If people feel the risk is high enough, they could carry concealed. The number of non-governmental places which require staff to go a metal detector is miniscule.

Re: The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-20 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 04:14 PM, Eric Cordian wrote: Tim Wrote: With no chance for evacuation, and with a one-fifth of a mile high building toppling sideways, fatalities might have reached 30,000 or more. I'm not a structural engineer, but given that lateral structural strength is

terror alert red

2003-03-20 Thread Harmon Seaver
Has anyone heard any more about the announcement made by the NJ gov that if we go to the next level -- red -- that everyone is confined to their houses? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com We are now in America's Darkest Hour. http://www.oshkoshbygosh.org hoka

Re: The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: I think the nearly perfectly vertical collapse of the WTC towers was because of the pancaking of each floor into the floors below, as shown in the videos. Whether removal of one support triggers pancaking or toppling is more complicated than the blocks

Re: HAVENCO shut down?

2003-03-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:46:37AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: www.seagold.net aka sealand.seagold.net and www.thegoldcasino.com both answer tracerts, and seem to be on 217.64.35, which claims to be on Sealand. FWIW I can get to them just fine, both from my *nix server and inside my employer's

Re: HAVENCO shut down?

2003-03-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:45 AM 03/20/2003 +, an anonymous write wrote to cypherpunks: Has anyone noticed all the sites hosted at havenco (www.seagold.net, i www.thegoldcasino.com, lists.havenco.com) seem to be down? Is this suspiciously due to the war in iraq, or just routine outage? www.seagold.net aka

RE: FBI discovers missing original copy of the Bill of Rights

2003-03-20 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
A collector recently tried to sell it to a museum, and the FBI ran a sting to seize it using a civil seizure warrant, Now the question is, will they hunt down all originals and burn them, then claim they never existed, and all other copies have been crafted by terrorist friendly freedom hating

Re: terror alert black

2003-03-20 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I've heard that for terror alert black we're all supposed to down a few 100 milligrams of valium, and stay in our beds, butts-up. That's terror alert Brown.

RE: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Trei, Peter wrote: There are other factors that the Turks have on their minds, aside from the US and NATO. Turkey is anxious to join the European Union, and has been cleaning up its human rights act to gain acceptance. Turkey recently lifted martial law in the Kurdish

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread stuart
On Thursday, March 20, 2003, Peter came up with this... TP Except when it happens - remember that within hours of the WTC attack, TP all the bridges and tunnels to Manhattan were closed to private cars *in TP both directions*, and remained that way for several days. I'm sure that TP some of the

Re: The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-20 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: I think the nearly perfectly vertical collapse of the WTC towers was because of the pancaking of each floor into the floors below, as shown in the videos. Whether removal of one support triggers pancaking

RE: FBI discovers missing original copy of the Bill of Rights

2003-03-20 Thread Sunder
Give them some time will you? Rome wasn't built in a day. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ --*--:Instead of

Re: What shall we do with a bad government...

2003-03-20 Thread Keith Ray
Quoting Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Interesting point of observation: According to our laws, approving of a crime is a crime (with some more accurate specifications but I am not a stinkin' lawyer). According to international law, the recent Shrubya's desert adventure is quite likely a

Prosecuting, Defending and Adjudicating National Security Cases

2003-03-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
The Judge Advocate's Handbook For Litigating National Security Cases: Prosecuting, Defending and Adjudicating National Security Cases, Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Navy, 2002: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/jaghandbook.pdf

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:36 PM 3/20/03 +, Ken Brown wrote: Despite what Eric Cordian and others have said here, I think it unlikely that there will be a big body-bag outcome for the US. The force balance is so overwhelmingly one-way, and most Iraqis really don't want the current Ba'athist government. A lot of

Re: What shall we do with a bad government...

2003-03-20 Thread Keith Ray
Quoting Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What bullshit. You just suck right up to those war criminals don't you? Do you work for them too? No, I just refuse to allow lies to go unchallenged by a bunch of bloodthirsty peaceniks who want to see US troops gassed, shot, blown-up, or nuked.

Libertarian Party expresses concern over war -- but does not oppose it

2003-03-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: George Getz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libertarian statement on Iraq invasion Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:38:51 -0500 === NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World

Compare the wishy-washy Libertarian statement to the Green Party

2003-03-20 Thread Declan McCullagh
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:01:33 -0800 (PST) From: DC Statehood Green Party [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GREEN PARTY RELEASE Bush, launcing attack, is now indictable on war crimes charges To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release: Thursday, March

When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-20 Thread Sarad AV
hi, how long does US analysts expect iraq to be completely occupied by US and allied troops? Regards Sarath. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Stuart writes: War has been declared against Iraq by the US President George Bush. Initial air strikes have been launched on Baghdad, which the US said were targeted at senior Iraqi leaders. British forces have not yet been involved and the order to begin a ground war has not been given. May

The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Wrote: With no chance for evacuation, and with a one-fifth of a mile high building toppling sideways, fatalities might have reached 30,000 or more. I'm not a structural engineer, but given that lateral structural strength is likely only a fraction of vertical structural strength, it

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
It was held back because of one of the terrorist events which that other actor, Tyler Durden, tells us don't happen here in America. Well, I wasn't EXACTLY trying to claim there's actually no terrorism here in the US (aside from our exportation of it, that is). BUT, the low numbers do bare

Re: terror alert black

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
I've heard that for terror alert black we're all supposed to down a few 100 milligrams of valium, and stay in our beds, butts-up. For hidden weapons inspections, of course. -TD From: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: terror alert red Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Good work, Shaddack. Gold star and smiley face. My father has mentioned the Texas City incident a few times while growing up (he grew up in Galveston). He remembers that it basically dissappeared in a giant fireball, and there was never an explanation. So of course I'l send him these links.

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 19 Mar 2003 at 14:53, Tyler Durden wrote: I agree the above would be bullshit if it weren't on some occasions demonstrably true. After the US helped get the Taliban rolling (through providing them with stingers and other weapons as well as subversive opps training to knock out

Re: Libertarian Party expresses concern over war -- but does not

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Libertarians are people who think the only legitimate use of state force is to protect them from their slaves. It is unlikely that people who don't oppose the death penalty, nor the right of parents to beat their minor children at will, will care particularly about Shrub kicking the crap out of