Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread R.A. Hettinga
For the most part, I'm going to answer this (mostly) seriously, though I expect it wasn't asked in the same fashion. At 9:17 PM -0700 10/28/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is this geodesic neo-conservativism? Where can I start bearer-document goose-stepping? Impedance mismatch. You're using a

Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen fast enough, as far as I'm concerned, and I'll

RE: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Sounds good, but there's a little flaw in the logic: At 10:07 PM 10/24/04 -0400, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If the only way to kill barbarians is to kill barbarians in their bed before they kill you in yours, to pave over nation-states that support them, starting with the easiest first, it can't happen

2000 curies of Ci

2004-10-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
t 10:21 PM 10/24/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: This is idiotic. You're claiming that the definition of terrorist is dependent not on the act, but on why the act was committed. So if I was to go out tomorrow and spread 2000 curies of Ci into the local subway system As payback for Ruby Ridge,

100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Tyler Durden
A large percentage of these are women and children, and dying directly due to American bombing. Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald?

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Ian Grigg wrote: It's actually quite an amusing problem. When put in those terms, it might be cheaper and more secure to go find some druggie down back of central station, and pay them a tenner to write out the ransom demand. Or buy a newspaper and start cutting and pasting the letters... or

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-29 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
Dave Howe wrote: Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I'd thought it was so Microsoft could offer an emulation-based migration path to all the apps that would be broken by Longhorn. MS has since backed off on the new filesystem proposal that would have been the biggest source of breakage (if rumors of a single-rooted, more

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I love about the Internet -- ask a question and get silence but make a false claim and you get all the advice you can possibly eat. Yup. give wrong advice, and you look like a fool. correct someone else's wrong advice, and you make them look foolish (unless

Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 4:16 PM -0400 10/29/04, John Kelsey wrote: looks like a waste of time and money I suppose we'll find out sooner or later. I'm not going to piss in the wind here on this anymore. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting

Re: 100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? Most AmeriKKKans are too stupid to know that when their Poodle Press talks about airstrikes against insurgent safehouses, they really mean bombing civilian neighborhoods to scare the

Re: 2000 curies of Ci

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:19 PM 10/28/2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Perhaps you meant Cs-137. Halliburton loses mCi of Am-241 etc monthly. MilliCuries? That's a bit surprising, though losing microCuries of it would be more likely. An average home smoke detector has 1-5 microcuries, and industrial detectors go up

Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-10-29 Thread John Kelsey
From: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 29, 2004 7:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire .. It has always amused me that libertarians and anarcho-capitalists insist on using the language of the left to describe the things they don't like. One of the

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)

2004-10-29 Thread Dave Howe
Roy M. Silvernail wrote: I was thinking more of the rumor that Longhorn's filesystem would start at '/', removing the 'X:' and the concept of separate drives (like unix has done for decades :) ). When I first saw this discussed, the consensus was that it would break any application that expected