Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 23 Dec 2002 at 21:23, Tim May wrote: Inasmuch as we cannot even build a machine which even remotely resembles a bat, or even an ant, the inability to simulate/understand/be a bat is not surprising. There is no mapping currently feasable between my internal states and a bat's.

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 09:38 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote: Expect to hear not of a hausfrau being busted, but of the roundup (so to speak) of Mohammed Sayeed, Hariq Azaz, and other thought criminals for buying two many gallons of Roundup at the local Walmart. I'd guess that the credit

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-24 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, James A. Donald wrote: On the other hand, our inability to emulate a nematode, or the a portion of the retina, is grounds for concern. This does not indicate that the mystery is QM, but does suggest that there is some mystery -- some special quality either of individual

Re: Correction of AP-CIA Disinfo.

2002-12-24 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Dave Howe wrote: Not sure about Georgia - must be a fairly common problem though as I found a case at Browns Ferry Alabama (1975) where it all went tits up - no radiation That's it. I guess everything south of the mason-dixon line is the same to me :-) Ooops. danger on

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, James A. Donald wrote: On 24 Dec 2002 at 19:42, Anonymous wrote: Not all that far-fetched, really. It would be fairly simple to create a dioxin bomb by heating a 55gal drum of polychlorinated phenols (2,4D or 2,45T) or polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs from a powerline

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterror Research)

2002-12-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:42 PM +0100 on 12/24/02, Anonymous wrote: create a dioxin bomb Of course, the efficacy of which as a substance of any serious human toxicity has always been under serious scientific debate, hysterical government pandering and enviro-socialism to the contrary. Of course, I wouldn't drink

I crypt you

2002-12-24 Thread Anonymous
It's ironic that the State itself will finally provide a clear reason to the masses for using strong crypto. The fatherland defense hysteria is fueling the privacy concerns - and mainly because people are afraid of errors when humonguous apparatus starts sifting through their data. It is like

Re: [IRR] The Geodesic Economy: World Peace Through Free Trade

2002-12-24 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:14 AM -0500 on 12/24/02, Gary Stock wrote: Let me save everybody else ten agonizing minutes... Summary: greed is good, So far, so good... profit is prince, Yup... fuck the future. No, fuck the *past*. :-). RAH, feel free to clarify any points I missed. Progress is as

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Anonymous
Tim wrote: Expect to hear not of a hausfrau being busted, but of the roundup (so to speak) of Mohammed Sayeed, Hariq Azaz, and other thought criminals for buying two many gallons of Roundup at the local Walmart. Not all that far-fetched, really. It would be fairly simple to create a

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Anonymous
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 19:42:23 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Tim wrote: Expect to hear not of a hausfrau being busted, but of the roundup (so to speak) of Mohammed Sayeed, Hariq Azaz, and other thought criminals for buying two many gallons of Roundup at the local Walmart. Not all that

Re: [IRR] The Geodesic Economy: World Peace Through Free Trade

2002-12-24 Thread Anton Sherwood
Gary Stock wrote: Let me save everybody else ten agonizing minutes... Summary: greed is good, profit is prince, fuck the future. Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread Mike Rosing
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Eugen Leitl wrote: But why doing it in the first place? To contaminate an area, causing high costs for decontamination? Doesn't compute. Unless you just want to annoy. If you want to kill people, stick to nerve agents. Maximum impact (relatively volatile, excellent LD50),