On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:03 AM, Trei, Peter wrote:
Reality precedes fiction. Around Boston I sometimes see
cars with an odd little sticker in the back window, white, round,
with a stylized blue car in the top half (it can also be read as
the face of someone wearing a fedora, peering o
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 01:37 AM, Lucky Green wrote:
James A. Donald wrote:
In general wars lead to a major temporary reduction in liberty,
but a smaller permanent reduction in liberty. Unfortunately
the war on terror will probably never end, so there will be no
recovery.
I heard s
At 08:24 PM 12/9/2002 -0800, Tim May wrote:
Last night had a plot device on "The Practice" (a generally bad show...I
ought to stop watching) where nearly all residents in an upscale burbclave
had signed a pledge--reminiscent of my opening point--where owners of cars
would invite the police to s
eJazeera, Baby!
That guy should have had a tiny laptop or something that could wisk those
images off the moment an 802.l1 port was detected. (Actually, it should wisk
off a copy of the photos EVERY time an 802.11 port is detected!)
In addition, wouldn't it be great if he had actually had a digi
> If you put one of these stickers on your car, you are giving the
> police permission to pull the car over without probable cause if
> they find it on the road late at night (1am-5am, or something like
> that), just to check that all is in order.
>
> I think it's being promoted as an anti-theft to
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:04:09AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> >
> > >These ap.tbo.com links don't work. I get ap.tbo.com can't be found. I
> > > mentioned this a few days ago. I can do a whois on t
> Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
[...]
> Last night had a plot device on "The Practice" (a generally bad
> show...I ought to stop watching) where nearly all residents in an
> upscale burbclave had signed a pledge--reminiscent of my opening
> point--where owners of cars would invi
> Trei, Peter" wrote:
>
> If you put one of these stickers on your car, you are giving the
> police permission to pull the car over without probable cause if
> they find it on the road late at night (1am-5am, or something like
> that), just to check that all is in order.
>
> I think it's being p
Title: RE: CDR: Re: ...(one of them about Completeness)
> Mathametics is incomplete,other wise we would have
> known every thing about every thing. From our
Popping in without the relevant background, I'm afraid, but I'll
give my view on this long lasting thread anyway:
Mathematics do not ha
> Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> >These ap.tbo.com links don't work. I get ap.tbo.com can't be found. I
> > mentioned this a few days ago. I can do a whois on tbo.com alright, but
> a lookup
> > on ap.tbo.com says non-existant host/d
From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Isn't this what I said?
Yes, I agreed with you with regard to the law as it is in the UK. I
corrected my mistake.
Mark
James A. Donald wrote:
> In general wars lead to a major temporary reduction in liberty,
> but a smaller permanent reduction in liberty. Unfortunately
> the war on terror will probably never end, so there will be no
> recovery.
I heard some governmental official on the radio the other day (I p
> Yep. If I owe you 100 quid, and I give you that value of English bank
> notes, and you sue me in an English court saying I haven't paid, you
> will lose. Which is fair enough - it is the state's court so
> why should
> they help you if you don't like the state's money?
>
> If I offer you 100 po
I'm watching a New York television news show reporting on one of the
recent cases where people sign away their rights. This is about
requests sent out by schools that parents of students sign a pledge
that alcohol, loud parties, and late night activities will not be
permitted at their homes and
hi,
>
> > Jim Choate says:
> >
> > > Godel's does -not- say mathematics is
> incomplete, it says we can't prove
> > > completeness -within- mathematics proper. To do
> so requires a
> > > meta-mathematics of some sort.
Mathametics is incomplete,other wise we would have
known every thing about e
At 10:29 PM 12/9/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:52 PM -0800 on 12/9/02, Steve Schear wrote:
> Haven't seen this discussed here.
Meaning there is one, or you want to start one?
Sorry I wasn't more clear. I meant I haven't seen this site discussed before.
steve
> I'm watching a New York television news show reporting on one of the
> recent cases where people sign away their rights. This is about
> requests sent out by schools that parents of students sign a pledge
> that alcohol, loud parties, and late night activities will not be
> permitted at their
Jim;
These ap.tbo.com links don't work. I get ap.tbo.com can't be found. I
mentioned this a few days ago. I can do a whois on tbo.com alright, but a lookup
on ap.tbo.com says non-existant host/domain
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:04:57PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/M
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Anonymous wrote:
>
> It already has. And the hell with the horses -- tie the other end of the rope
> to a fast car.
That would give a new meaning to "drawn and quartered". There's a lot of
bureaucrats who need that performed on them.
Patience, persistence, truth,
Dr. mi
At 08:52 AM 12/09/2002 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also
akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web server
from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies
according
to their website.
Akamai's be
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