Certicom sees lift from entertainment industry

2004-10-14 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendlyc=Articlecid=1097704208483call_pageid=968350072197 TheStar.com Oct. 14, 2004. 01:00 AM Certicom sees lift from entertainment industry Certicom Corp. sees growing demand for its data encryption

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-15 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 3:55 PM -0700 10/15/04, John Young wrote: Most of the Boston Red Sox team look as if they have just come from a terrorist training camp for blind, handless barbers, decked-out in ill-fitting sports gear, staring wild-eyed at RPGs being fired at their heads and nuts, swinging clubs futilely at

Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success

2004-10-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://istresults.cordis.lu/popup.cfm?section=newstpl=articleID=70263AutoPrint=True IST Results Chance plays a key role in start-up company's success Using randomly generated numbers to ensure the security of encryption applications seems counter-intuitive but is a fundamental part of quantum

Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses

2004-10-12 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://nytimes.com/2004/10/11/politics/11identity.html?pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times October 11, 2004 Congress Close to Establishing Rules for Driver's Licenses By MATTHEW L. WALD ASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - Following a recommendation of the Sept. 11 commission, the House and Senate

Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable'

2004-10-16 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/15/google_desktop_privacy/print.html The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable' By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco (andrew.orlowski at theregister.co.uk) Published Friday 15th October 2004 22:47 GMT Google's

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

2004-10-12 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 9:49 AM -0400 10/12/04, John Kelsey wrote: Hmmm. I guess I don't see why this story supports that argument all that well. More like the straw that broke the camel's back, admittedly. A long time ago I came to the conclusion that the closer we

Airline ID requirement faces legal challenge

2004-10-12 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2004-10-10-privacy_x.htm USA Today Airline ID requirement faces legal challenge By Richard Willing, USA TODAY At a time when Americans have come to expect tight security for air travel, it might seem to be an odd question: Does requiring airline

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-18 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:07 PM -0700 10/18/04, James A. Donald wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote: People who are, for the most part, not like us are trying to kill people like us. Let us chuck all those people not-like-us off those planes where most of the passengers are people like us.

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

2004-10-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text To: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money) From: Somebody at a Central Securities Depository :-) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:31:10 +0100 i buy the argument that transaction instantaneity

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

2004-10-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:27 PM -0400 10/19/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: David Somebody named David, apparently... ;-) Shoot me now, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however

Do you know anyone looking for a Cryptography position?

2004-10-21 Thread R.A. Hettinga
I guess the bubble's over officially, now... :-). Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Subject: Do you know anyone looking for a Cryptography position? Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:57:55 -0600 Thread-Topic: Do you know anyone looking for a Cryptography position? Thread-Index:

Re: e-gold

2004-10-21 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 5:32 PM -0400 10/20/04, Somebody wrote: How much do you know about the e-gold crew? I've sent them a couple of queries and I've gotten answers back that haven't been very pleasing. The short story is that they're a

Re: e-gold

2004-10-21 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:17 AM -0400 10/21/04, Somebody wrote: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, what kind of problems are you having? I can't seem to figure out how one deposits or removes gold from e-gold. They got out of the business of exchanging other

James may be a dick, but y'all sound like pussies to me...(was Re: Airport insanity)

2004-10-24 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 11:37 PM -0400 10/23/04, Adam wrote: You know, the more I read posts by Mr. Donald, the more I believe that he is quite possibly the most apt troll I have ever encountered. No, that was Tim May. The world champion troll if there ever was one -- among other things. :-). James is right, of

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 9:56 PM +0200 10/24/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can you guys please take it outside? The majority of us just isn't interested. Oh, please. TantoWho's this us, white man?/Tanto Personally, I'm having a lot of fun watching this. What amazes me the most

How Empires Really End

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
One of the reasons I habitually use the Gibon quote in my .sig. Cheers, RAH --- --- begin forwarded text Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mises Daily Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How Empires Really End Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:45:20 -0400

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:57 PM -0500 10/25/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: Here: Allow me to be the very first - Kerry Very Definitely NEEDS KILLING. But not until Georgie has had *his* turn. Exactly the point I was making before. Binary politics are a bitch, boys and girls. viz, I'm as cryptoanarchist as the next guy,

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 2:33 PM -0400 10/25/04, Pete Capelli wrote: He did keep things active, and was an excellent counterbalance to RAH. *Nobody* was a counterbalance to Tim, me or anyone else. Simple fact, no matter how much he pissed on my shoes, or anyone else's. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A.

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:32 PM +0200 10/25/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: What's he up to these days? It seems he got tired of of USENET, too http://groups.google.com/groups?q=tcmay%40got.nethl=enlr=c2coff=1safe=offsa=Gscoring=d Too bad. Here we go...

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-25 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:32 PM +0200 10/25/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: What's he up to these days? Probably in jail. :-). I told him not to throw rocks at cop-cars... Cheers, RAH Okay, so he's probably not in *jail*... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-26 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:23 PM -0400 10/26/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: Moral superiority, the rationale of both sides of any given violent conflict. The winner gets to use the victory to proclaim the correctness of their interpretation. When the conflict is of a historic scale, the loser is often too dead to

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:10 PM -0700 10/26/04, James A. Donald wrote: fantasy that the US attacked Korea, and attacked to impose poverty on Koreans so that the US can be rich, This is actually the running fantasy in Marxism since the 1950's, when it turned out that that, instead of the workers eating the bourgeoisie

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:11 PM +0200 10/27/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Ha Ha Curious George. Just for fun, I bet the reason is economics. No need to have yew furriners hammerin' our http ports, 'cuz ya cain't vote, here, anyway. Okay. Except in Florida and Ohio. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga

Inadvertent Iraqi anarchocapitalism (Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity))

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:41 AM -0700 10/27/04, James A. Donald wrote: What worked in Afghanistan was to find some local warlord we could live with, someone in no hurry to get his six pack of virgins, someone who might want to put sacks over the heads of the women of his town, but had no grandiose ambitions to stuff

Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
I'll see you one fizzled October surprise, and raise you... Are we having fun, now? Cheers, RAH http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041027-101153-4822r The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Russia tied to Iraq's missing arms By Bill Gertz THE

Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:42:05 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Description: Notification Content-Type: text/plain This is the Postfix program at host

Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Sorry for the open channel, folks. At 10:16 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: Thanks for the heads up though :-) Tell ya what. You send me (directly, I think. :-)) pointers to how to bash RDNS out of earthlink's hands and into mine, and I'll buy you a beer. I know, I know. You drink

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 6:14 PM -0700 10/27/04, Bill Stewart wrote: Kerry's a content-free stuffed shirt *I* coulda told you that. I'm from Massachusetts. Here's what I wrote about the War Hero (2.0) on another list: A guy just like, say, John Kerry, back-door preppie

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 8:57 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: Yours, From Sunny Wonderful Missouri... A great place to be *from*. Go Sox. Cheers, RAH BA Philosophy, Mizzou, '81(okay, '84...) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.3

Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:29 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: RAH: Try it now. 'mkay... This work? Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:33 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: You graduated after all that beer??? Beer *and* philosophy. I must be a genius, or something. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

Re: Turtles all the way down... (was Re: Attention Alif: RDNS is a bitch...)

2004-10-27 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:55 PM -0500 10/27/04, J.A. Terranson wrote: Nothings ever regular around here Er, regular means nothing around here? Thanks everyone. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

Re: the simian unelected is blocking the world

2004-10-28 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:02 AM -0700 10/28/04, Bill Stewart wrote: a href=that Monty Python drunken philosophers song... :-). There is NO Rule Six. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street,

Re: Donald's Job Description

2004-10-28 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:37 AM -0700 10/28/04, Bill Stewart wrote: At 06:52 PM 10/27/2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: .. ... Kerry ... In the meantime, Bill, I um, feel your pain. He's *my* senator. And the *liberal* one, too. Hey, we've got DiFi here, *liberal* as opposed to Kennedy, of course. :-). Ever see

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

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: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 2:42 PM -0400 10/30/04, Sunder wrote: the Turd Sandwich? Turd Sandwich, of course. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve

Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:09 PM -0700 10/30/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: I'm surprised the Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden comment isn't discussed more http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5096 HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 'Europe Will Be

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:26 PM -0400 10/30/04, Sunder wrote: No! You must vote for the Giant Douche! Or the Terrorists Win! Dude. Go see the episode. Look at the font on the Turd Sandwich float. Of *course* I'm for the Turd Sandwich. I can even give you the torrent file, so you can confirm your error...

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:26 PM -0700 10/30/04, Eric Murray wrote: Its almost as if they're both following Karl Rove's playbook. Yeah, that's it. Bin Laden's in Karl Rove's pocket. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Winning still matters, etc...

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:36 PM -0700 10/30/04, Bill Stewart wrote: RAH about it being a _geodesic_ neo-{Khan, con-men} empire Okay. Enough pissing in the wind. Time for a Turd Sandwich... Cheers, RAH http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/hanson/hanson200410290825.asp The National Review

Re: We are revealed by what we hate. (fwd)

2004-10-30 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:48 PM -0700 10/30/04, John Young wrote: The Lehrer Report I think that says enough. ;-) Stupidly, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it

Re: Osama's makeover

2004-10-31 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:18 PM -0800 10/31/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: And unlike Bush, he can actually read. C'mon Bill, that's not fair. You keep thinking that, Mr. Pox. That's just the way he likes it... Cheers, RAH ---

Re: Winning still matters, etc...

2004-10-31 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:12 PM -0800 10/31/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Which way do the winds blow in the middle east? East of Jerusalem. :-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston,

Re: Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden

2004-11-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:15 PM + 11/1/04, ken wrote: HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 [Heap of transparent murderous lies snipped] If you ever take a logic class, :-), that's an informal fallacy called an ad hominem. That would be like me disregarding anything you say because

Re: Geodesic neoconservative empire

2004-11-01 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:29 PM + 11/1/04, ken wrote: Read up on Lord Lugard. Oh. I get it. September came two months later this year across the pond... Cheers, RAH Foghorn-LeghornNow, *that*, I say, *that*, son, is an ad hominem.../F-L -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html No cypherpunks content. Just local politics. And it's not even original, they've

This Memorable Day

2004-11-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html The Wall Street Journal November 2, 2004 COMMENTARY This Memorable Day By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 2, 2004; Page A22 In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:31 AM -0500 11/2/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. More recently, and closer to Hanson's point in the article, both of Lincoln's elections were very close. But, after Lincoln's second inauguration, Grant

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 11:58 AM -0800 11/2/04, John Young wrote: Grant, who suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity, Actually, he suicided himself with cigars, having died of throat cancer... ;-) Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is probably not going to succeed unless it can

Florida 2.0

2004-11-02 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At the moment, the (no paper backup) touch-screen machines in Florida aren't matching their manual voter counts. In the meantime Ohio has the highest punch-card voting machine count in the country. Are we having fun yet? Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:29 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: Do you seriously think the war on bogey^H^H^Hterrorism can ever be won? You're gonna love this one: You can't have terrorism without state sponsors. We take out (by whatever means at hand...) state sponsors of terrorism, and, hey, presto, no

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 7:33 AM -0800 11/3/04, John Young wrote: The US has not won since WW2. Nope. Not at all. 1. Korea we lost by shoving the commies all the way up to the Yalu river. And then leaving them to fester behind a still-extant DMZ until they're almost

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:21 PM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote: another super-power in the mid 1940s about winning an unwinnable war because God/righteousness/whatever was on their side Relativism does not a fact make, Peter. Germany 1944 does not equal USA 2004, no matter how hard you twist the kaleidoscope.

Re: So Who Won?

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 10:54 PM -0800 11/2/04, Eric Cordian wrote: So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche? The Turd Sandwich, of course... Vote Turd Sandwich!!! Advancing the cause of jingoism and darkness, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 12:50 PM +0100 11/3/04, Nomen Nescio wrote: Nonsense! Are you in junior high? Are you high, junior? Or is it just your politics that sound so... sophomoric? :-) This post gave me a big laugh. So naive. There are a few basic forces feeding

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
ObPedantry: At 9:49 AM -0500 11/3/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: If you'd learned any history, you'd know that the first argument is x second the result of the complete failure of the *premises* of the first to happen at all

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 11:11 AM -0800 11/3/04, James A. Donald wrote: Dhimmitude being a dangerously inferior status where one's property is insecure, and women are apt to be raped. ObSmartAssComment: That's why they call it Dhimmicracy, much less the Dhimmicratic Party... :-). Cheers, RAH -- -

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 11:11 AM -0800 11/3/04, James A. Donald wrote: It is often argued that since war, violence, etc, are public goods This is my favorite retort to that: Externalities are the last refuge of the derigistes. -- Friedrich Hayek An otherwise excellent rant elided... Cheers, RAH --

Why you keep losing to this idiot

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
This comes from an old joke. A grand master, in the middle of a chess match, jumps up onto the table, kicks off all the pieces, and screams, almost unintelligibly, Why must I *lose*, to such *idiots*!!!. :-). Cheers, RAH --- http://slate.msn.com/toolbar.aspx?action=printid=2109079 Simple

U.S. stocks surge as Bush heads for victory

2004-11-03 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text snip... Midday Report http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?column=Newswatchdist=nwtamsiteid=mktw snip... Current levels on US market indices at 11:40 am ET Nov 3, 2004 Last Change DJIA

Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal

2004-11-04 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5652 HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944 Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal It's Time to Reconfigure the United States by Mike Thompson Posted Nov 3, 2004 [From the author: This is an essay I've been

Re: the new Keyser Sose (was Re: Do androids dream of electric camels?)

2004-11-04 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:43 PM -0800 11/3/04, Bill Stewart wrote: Not sure if the old Keyser Sose was limping or not, but he came out last week to give George Bush's campaign a helpful Booga booga booga to remind the sheeple that he's still there. Karl Rove did it.

the new Keyser Sose (was Re: Do androids dream of electric camels?)

2004-11-04 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:34 PM + 11/3/04, POPBITCH wrote: Hardline Honeyz 2 Al Zarqawi: the unusual suspect Mysterious Jordanian celebrity executioner Abu Musab Al Zarqawi is a huge hit with lovers of Hardline Honeyz. With a $25m price tag on his head, al Zarqawi shot to fame as

Re: Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal

2004-11-04 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:31 AM -0500 11/4/04, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: There seems to be an assumption that Alaska will be included in Jesusland. Whoever is advancing this theory clearly never lived in Alaska (or if they did, only lived in Anchorage, which isn't *really* Alaska). Ahhh... Los Anchorage. It's just

Re: Love It or Leave It

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:34 PM -0800 11/4/04, Bill Stewart wrote: I have to agree with the critics of Kerry who said that he was aloof and out of touch with Middle America .. and it's a big middle this year: http://www.newsmax.com/images/headlines/BushCountry04Map.jpg Of course, there's the nuanced version, but,

Cryptography Research Takes Aim at Content Pirates

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041105/sff023_1.html?printer=1 Yahoo! Finance Source: Cryptography Research, Inc. Cryptography Research VP Benjamin Jun Takes Aim at Content Pirates Friday November 5, 6:02 am ET Discusses Technology Trends and Responses at Upcoming RSA Conference Europe 2004 SAN

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:05 PM -0800 11/5/04, John Young wrote: Bob, you know this is against list rules, everybody knows what's right, stop blue-baiting, you fucking nazi. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Here ya go, John and Bill, Knock yourselves out... :-) Cheers, RAH --- http://slate.msn.com/toolbar.aspx?action=printid=2109218 Slate politics Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue The unteachable ignorance of the red states. By Jane Smiley Updated Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004, at 3:24 PM

RE: Your source code, for sale

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:18 AM -0800 11/5/04, Hal Finney wrote: Yes, I'm looking at ideas like this for ecash gambling, but you have a who-goes-first problem. Whenever we talk about financial applications, where the assets represented by one bearer certificate are

Election with Hunter

2004-11-05 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Last blue-baiting post, I swear. Gotta love HST, especially after the ether kicks in... Cheers, RAH --- http://www.aspendailynews.com/Search_Articles/view_search_article.cfm?OrderNumber=9156 Aspen Daily News Friday, November 5, 2004 11/4/04 Election with Hunter By Troy Hooper/Aspen

The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-06 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/opinion/06brooks.html?hp=pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times November 6, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Values-Vote Myth By DAVID BROOKS Every election year, we in the commentariat come up with a story line to explain the result, and the story line has to

No, Canada!

2004-11-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/11/06/no_canada?mode=PF The Boston Globe THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING No, Canada! You don't want to go there By Alex Beam, Globe Staff | November 6, 2004 You have probably heard the idle chatter: ''I'm thinking of

Re: No, Canada!

2004-11-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 11:42 AM -0800 11/6/04, John Young wrote: capitalist There you go, speaking marxist again... ;-) Cheers, RAH Capitalism is totalitarian for economics... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:08 PM +0100 11/6/04, Eugen Leitl wrote: Cypherpunks write code. Right. That's it. Wanna write me a bearer mint? For free? ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street,

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:31 AM -0800 11/6/04, James Donald wrote: As George Orwell observed, anyone who thinks there is a significant difference between nazis and commies is in favor of one or the other. I'm going to have hunt that one up for my .sig file. Thank you. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A.

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 6:25 PM + 11/6/04, Justin wrote: 65m/141m = 46% of registered voters voted for Bush Of course, you can invert the math and say the same about Kerry, plus Bush's 3-something million margin, I'm afraid. Hell, Rush said exactly the same thing on

Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-08 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/07/EDGQQ9M33Q1.DTLtype=printable The San Francisco Chronicle Election Fallout Faith in democracy, not government - Victor Davis Hanson Sunday, November 7, 2004 Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the only two

Tom Wolfe: 'Talk to someone in Cincinnati? Are you crazy?'

2004-11-08 Thread R.A. Hettinga
My mother's family's name is Sanders. It's Scots-Irish. Apparently, I like to have my rock fights on the net... :-). Cheers, RAH --- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-1347653-524,00.html The Times of London November 07, 2004 Focus: US Election Special 'Talk to

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-08 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:41 AM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: *SIGH* Is it really so hard for people to remember that George W. Bush was born and educated in Massachusetts? Give me a child until the age of 7, cet. Which he spent in Midland, TX. Being the son of a family of West-Texans myself, he comes by his

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 6:13 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: Give me a child until the age of 7, cet. 'er huh? Jesuit Maxim. Or Michael Apted film premise. Take your pick. Google is your friend. Which he spent in Midland, TX. Being the son of a family of West-Texans myself, he comes by his bidness

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:20 PM -0800 11/8/04, John Young wrote: West Texas is where kids learn to fuck jackrabbits by slitting their guts to fashion a pokehole. The jacks' death kicking of the cojones is what leaves an urge in them as adults to spread the practice to the state, the nation, the world, any place to

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 12:17 AM -0500 11/9/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:11 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: cet is an HTMl element Wrong again. Mere hyperlatinate British public school affectation, = et, and, um, all that... It dawns on me that between Berners-Lee and Hallam-Baker, that the latter, above

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-09 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 7:11 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: cet is an HTMl element Wrong again. Mere hyperlatinate British public school affectation, = et, and, um, all that... At 7:11 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: Yes, and, apparently, by your inability to parse something that is a rudimentary

China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/11/09/business/yuan.html China's wealthy bypass the banks By Keith Bradsher The New York Times Wednesday, November 10, 2004 WENZHOU, China The Wenzhou stir-fry is not a dish you eat. But it is giving indigestion to Chinese

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-10 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:54 AM -0800 11/10/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: redirecting Ah. Yes. *That's* the word I was looking for... Plonk! There. That should stop the bandwidth leak... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-10 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 9:00 PM + 11/10/04, ken wrote: Be fair. They had a trained and disciplined army. Most of whom would obey orders to the death. That's worth a hell of a lot in battle. Yeah, but the zulus had the wrong end of, well, the stick. Take a look at, again, Hanson's Carnage and Culture for a nice

The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/c-e/chapin/2004/chapin111004.htm MensNewsDaily.comĀ The Full Chomsky November 10, 2004 by Bernard Chapin Question: How could a linguist working as a college professor have omniscient insight regarding the inner-workings of the American government and

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 3:40 PM + 11/12/04, ken wrote: And when was this stagnation? Two words: Ming Navy Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may

Mr. Blue Goes Deaf When He Sees Red

2004-11-13 Thread R.A. Hettinga
Mostly because I sent his Declaration of Expulsion here... It's entirely possible that, absent a physical threat to keep the country together, we have all the necessary ingredients to go the way of the Soviet Union someday, and devolve. Cheers, RAH --

CBS 11: Dallas Server Company Carries Zarqawi Death Videos, Terrorist Websites

2004-11-17 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://cbs11tv.com/localnews/local_story_317193815.html/resources_storyPrintableView CBS 11 | cbs11tv.com DALLAS SERVER COMPANY CARRIES ZARQAWI DEATH VIDEOS, TERRORIST WEBSITES * THE PLANET.COM SAYS IT IS UNWITTING VICTIM, CAN'T

Re: E-Mail Authentication Will Not End Spam, Panelists Say

2004-11-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 9:15 PM -0500 11/18/04, Russell Nelson wrote: The proper route to control spam is to involve users in prioritizing their email, so that their friend's email comes first, followed by anybody they've sent mail to, followed by people they've gotten

Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.thegreenside.com/story.asp?ContentID=11151 The Green Side Sunday, November 21, 2004 Email from Dave - Nov 19, 04 Dear Dad - Just came out of the city and I honestly do not know where to start. I am afraid that whatever I send you

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 8:26 PM -0800 11/21/04, John Young wrote: Jesus, Bob, this and the Schwartz hosannah for Free Fallujah are about as bad a puke as anything you've posted. and... BTW, Bob, what's your draft status? Born in 1959. One of two years in most of the

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:21 AM -0800 11/22/04, John Young wrote: Every application of US military might since WW2 has failed. Korea. Yes. Korea. Hell, the entire Cold War, John. Including your beloved Viet Nam, which was a *battle*, not a war in same. When Castro, and

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:38 AM -0500 11/22/04, John Kelsey wrote: we need people to do the occupying, I'm pretty heretical about this. I think if we had decapitated Iraq, went after our military objectives, like securing what was a threat to us, including Iraq's senior

Froomkin joins EFF board

2004-11-23 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congrats to Michael Froomkin, AKA Vinnie The Pro Bono, an anonymous source of mine on cypherpunks back in the day, before he broke the ice himself, once he realized we weren't all going to be hitting him up for free legal advice. :-). Cheers, RAH -

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-23 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 11:13 AM + 11/23/04, ken reached out from his Birkbeck student digs to make September Forever once again on the cypherpunks list: Muhammad Ahmad the so-called Mahdi Sayyed Qtub is who every model of a modern major islamofascist likes to point

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-23 Thread R.A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:41 PM + 11/23/04, ken wrote: So that's why you guys are behaving exactly like we used to? Yup, since you can't anymore, having dropped the ball, a long, long, time ago. Monopolarity is a bitch. See Churchill, below... ;-) Cheers, RAH - --

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:05 PM -0500 11/24/04, John Kelsey wrote: effective guerrilla warfare against US troops. Uh, huh...Just for fun, see the title of this thread. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44

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