Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-24 Thread Tom Vogt
petro wrote: Oh come now. You have real recourse against Bill Gates and John Tesh Bill Gates is a questionable case, but there is no doubt that John Tesh should die. if everyone who hates windos puts $10 in a box, you'd need quite a large box. which makes one wonder why the guy

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-24 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: would most likely cast a couple new protection laws. say, make it illegal to publish a politician's name. "our president has today..." Well, I guess that's *one* way to get political types to support the right to anonymity...

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-23 Thread Ken Brown
Eric Cordian wrote: Alan Olsen wrote: [...snip...] He seemed to think that the only target of this would be the government. I think this is a reasonable observation. You really have to be acting under color of authority to strongly alienate enough people, who have so litle recourse

Re: Jim Bell arrested documents online

2000-11-23 Thread Anonymous
Anyway, the distinction between business and politics is less clear than you make out - or seems less clear to many people in countries outside America. In most places the government is in the pockets of the people with the money - and in most places presidents and governors are quick This is a

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Alan Olsen wrote: I disagree. I don't believe Jim really was willing to consider the social implications of his scheme. The implications are that in a society where the government has not made personal privacy and private communication illegal, you can't be an asshole to countless millions

Re: Jim Bell arrested, documents online

2000-11-22 Thread petro
Oh come now. You have real recourse against Bill Gates and John Tesh Bill Gates is a questionable case, but there is no doubt that John Tesh should die. It is extremely unlikely it is going to change in the least the "who" or "why" of contract killing. I really don't think everyone