Greg Broiles wrote:
I resuscrived myself via cyberpass and am receiving traffic again - I
suspect perhaps someone deleted the list of subscribers.
I just resubscribed to cyberpass. It accepted me, so apparently I got
deleted during whatever service outage took place. Someone should
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Clinton administration intends to ask Congress for
new power to combat money laundering, including the authority to ban
financial transactions between U.S. institutions and offshore financial
centers, The New York Times reported today.
The administration wants to
Bill Stewart writes:
On the other hand, today's papers report that David Irving, the
Holocaust-denying history-reviser, lost his libel lawsuit against
some people who wrote about him and the inaccuracy of his propaganda.
I read the judge's findings of fact, and some background on the case.
steve mynott writes:
"I'm a racist. I would say they're a clever race. I would say that as a
race they are better at making money than I am. That's a racist
remark. But they appear to be better at making money than I am. If I
was going to be crude, I would say not only are they better at
At 5 AM this morning, 20 heavily armed Federal agents screaming
obscenities broke into the house where Elian Gonzalez was staying,
threatened to shoot his relatives, and dragged the screaming boy from the
house for forcible reunification with his father.
Bystanders were beaten and gassed.
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Tim writes:
Into my killfile you go, too.
Does the list automatically terminate when everyone is in your killfile?
Is your killfile as big as David Sternlight's killfile?
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Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
Career-wise, are village burning, violating other nations' sovereignty,
bombing to "send a message," and other such military antics on a par with
being a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or research scientist?
Our Congress seems to think so.
A few decades ago, when Vietnam was still a fresh memory,
Now that the Andrew Wiles proof of Fermat's Conjecture has been
universally accepted, people are turning their attention to the large
number of other unsolved mathematical problems, and trying to order them
by priority.
The Clay Mathematics Institude recently picked the seven such problems it
David Honig wrote:
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A graduate student at Colorado
State University has been arrested and accused of
trying to extort money, a car and free downloads from a
New Jersey company that sold digital books over the
Matt Elliott wrote:
Next it will be those "Garage Sales" where goods are exchanged for well
below their retail value and no taxes are collected. FinCEN needs to be
put out of its misery. How in the world can structuring your life to
minimize taxes owed be wrong? It seems like the only
Jim Choate writes:
In the most striking of the new experiments a pulse of light that
enters a transparent chamber filled with specially prepared cesium gas
is pushed to speeds of 300 times the normal speed of light. That is so
fast that, under these peculiar circumstances, the main part of
I wrote:
If the medium is not linear in this respect, we get a phenomena known as
"dispersion," which in most materials results in the group velocity
being lower than the phase velocity by a few percent, and sometimes a
phenomena known as "anomalous dispersion" in which the phase velocity
Tim May (in whose killfile I reside) wrote:
I support periodic name changes. This is one reason people sometimes
change their usernames and/or ISPs: they've gotten on too many spam
lists. Or their phone numbers. Or in extreme cases, their countries.
A fresh start is sometimes needed.
From the Havenco AUP:
Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:
1. Material that is ruled unlawful in the jurisdiction of the
originating server (Such as child pornography, in the case of our
flagship Sealand datacenter)
Just a small nit, but does Sealand law grant common
Peter Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[Boring News Snipped]
And finally tonight, you have heard of tax havens, but what about "data
havens"? Our London correspondent, Richard Gizbert, visits a manmade
island that declared its sovereignty from Britain a few years ago and
could now become
Tim May (who has me killfiled) writes:
Choate will no doubt say you are "trying to censor the list."
Sadly, he has become the new Vulis. Sending HTML-tagged, sending
large files, etc. Calling anybody who disputes his practices a censor.
I thought there was a general consensus that this
Robert X. Cringely Opines:
[snip]
But wait, it gets worse. There are aspects of this case that the ACLU
hasn't even considered. The Carnivore boxes are what's called
"co-located" at the ISP. This isn't a rare thing. Many organizations
like to control their own Web or mail servers and so
Nonesense like this is one of the reasons I rarely read Wired News any
more. Looks like they let "Lynn Burke" get too close to a logged on
terminal again, to beat her little sex abuse agenda drum.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38393,00.html
The Mainstreaming of Kiddie Porn
The
It's interesting to notice the not particularly subtle anti-youth bias in
the FBI's recently released profiles of people they allege are likely to
commit violence in schools. Indeed, the terms used are very negative and
propagandistic ways of characterizing practically anyone who isn't
carefully
http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap254.htm
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- After nine months in solitary confinement, Wen
Ho Lee pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of mishandling nuclear
secrets and was set free by an apologetic judge who said the government's
actions ''embarrassed our
http://www.modbee.com/metro/story/0,1113,194747,00.html
An 11-year-old Modesto boy was fatally shot early Wednesday morning
when police SWAT team officers on a federal narcotics sweep raided his
parents' home. Police said the shooting was an accident.
Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh-grader at
Someone at the following URL is claiming NP=P based on an alleged
polynomial time solution to the minimum clique partition problem.
http://www.busygin.dp.ua/clipat.html
Code is provided, and I am downloading it at the moment. More later.
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An Efficient Algorithm for the
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It may well be that political activists discover this whole ICANN
thing and realize they have a golden opportunity to have California
laws applied to black/delist sites they dislike, organizations they
think are racist, etc.
The Southern Law Poverty
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
A further deminstration that all the citizen-units
in Los Angeles are not worth one cop's manicure.
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap213.htm
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Los Angeles Police Department officer shot a
beauty salon owner three times with a beanbag shotgun because he
It appears that the tactical chemical laser the US has been hoping to
deploy to protect the Zionist Entity from rockets launched by Hezbollah
guerrillas in southern Lebanon is, in the words of its developers, "not
ready for action."
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/international/ap796.htm
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