Re: Editorial: Liberals Packing Heat (fwd)

2000-08-17 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
- from Ceasar through Hitler, Stalin, and Clinton. On the other hand, everyday drive-by shootings and such aren't exactly pointed towards the powers that be. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-09-01 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote: And when Denmark and Norway, say, decide to leave the Union, look for the fascists to dust off the speeches of Lincoln. Nitpickin': Norway never joined. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Good work by FBI and SEC on Emulex fraud case

2000-09-01 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
plain old police work. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Whipped Europenas

2000-09-03 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
techniques, we could perhaps try to get cells with both orange and hemp cellular nuclei to divide. I don't think either of these particular plants is prone to accepting such a treatment (unlike, I think, rye). Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Re: Is kerberos broken?

2000-09-03 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
(I probably buthered the hell out of that, never having heard or read the original, but I think it gets the point across) Wasn't that your whole point? ;) Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

2000-09-18 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
in promiscuous sex. Nope. You get it by smoking. You likely get diabetes by leading an unhealthy life - overweight is a primary factor. The same goes for cardiovascular conditions as well. 'Advocate taxing girth? Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Shunning, lesbians and liberty

2000-09-27 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
eserve to. I'm not going to turn Marxist on you, here, but I consider inequality something that should be limited (though not abolished). Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Niiice kitty....

2000-10-02 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, James A.. Donald wrote: Chomsky is hardly a reliable source. He routinely fabricates or falsifies quotes. I suggest you check his alleged sources. Do you have some past examples at hand?` Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Risk and insurance

2000-10-23 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
now. Every once in a while I just hate not being a native. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Parties

2000-10-27 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
cracy based on a mix of representative democracy, political parties, the relative voting system (dunno if you guys have this) and what have you. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Hard Shelled ISP?

2000-10-28 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
informed decisions etc.) without people even realising what hit them. It's no wonder few people ever come to think of privacy, expect perhaps with financial transactions. Given the widespread habit of spreading VISA numbers around, even that isn't a given. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy

Re: FW: BLOCK: ATT signs bulk hosting contract with spammers

2000-11-03 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
so intent on criminalizing most such measures. To me they seem like the essential ingredients of basic cyber-hygiene. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-10 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
Tuesday, no particular state, no particular county, and no particular precinct had any way of "knowing" that it would be a hinge site. In even simpler terms, if there is an actual draw, every single vote is precisely as much the fork as any other. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university

Re: Close Elections and Causality

2000-11-13 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
some error, but it is not often that the actual difference in votes given to the main participants shrinks too low for the error to have any relevance. Simply put, we are faced with the scourge of binary decision problems based on noisy data. Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math

Re: Questions of size...

2000-12-10 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
, through its use in general relativity, some faint echo of 'operates purely based on local information', I think it's a misnomer. People should rather use the term 'distributed' literally, as it's used in computer science. That's the meaning RAH is after, not true? Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fractal geodesic networks

2000-12-10 Thread Sampo A Syreeni
, what are fractal dimensions but numbers relating linear scale changes to changes in measures? Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED], aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university