Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
s. Similarly the USG has not said that if China invades Taiwan, the USG will intervene, but it would be as big a lie to claim that China has been given a green light to invade Taiwan, as it is for Ramsey to claim that Iraq was given a green light to invade Kuwait. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Every citation Chomsky gives is fraudulent. > > > > I recently posted a paragraph by paragraph examination of > > one of his more notorious articles. Every single citation > > he gave was false in some central and crucial way. > >

Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
ce in the Serbian war crimes trials, the Hague would acquit Saddam and convict Carter. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Ga9C18O27qHMYLen4874q63qGOwoEIBltLGk1rpk 48Vn4yKSHVY79B6oGsC+HdHn879C2BBXjKu204wKw

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
xactly what the nazi war criminals got. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 1Lc+zlzr6cys1/DeraqXfhpuVH9FvHHd5rtUuv/E 4gp4fEG6nAev5a7thtLVe+M7bqpvkok78SJyY0f1N

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
s our puppet, he was the good guy, and no > matter how many he murdered, he was a benevolent leader. Saddam was no more "our puppet" than Stalin or Pol Pot was, nor was he ever deemed a good guy, any more than they were. --digsig James A. D

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
the Hague is apt to convict the innocent and acquit the guilty in the face of all evidence, illustrating in more extreme form the problems that occur with the police powers of the Westphalian state. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- J.A. Terranson: > > > One leettllleee problem: we are not really at war. James A. Donald: > > Sure looks like war to me. J.A. Terranson: > I guess that's why the congresscritters told Shrub to GFY > when he tried to get a declaration? After 9/11 Congress

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
Americans deserved 9/11 and have no right to whine about it. Nations are not morally entitled to any rights. They have rights merely by habit and convention, a convention formalized in the peace of Westphalia, and now at long last fading. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeG

U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
-- On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote: > > Different rules apply in war. J.A. Terranson wrote: > One leettllleee problem: we are not really at war. Sure looks like war to me. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQd

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
ut its passing are those who enthusiastically hailed all the Soviet violations of it as wars of national liberation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG MG21u2rXbbd8Gv6a0KI33gOfB0dq3Rj0+8QLf9Zu 475GB3UNm+fRK0Tmju1skiWzb5gB5QGgnIdyidhHM

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
r does it lead you to believe they are actively supporting him. > It is astonishing that it was okay for Saddam to be as evil > as be and we (as a society) turned a blind eye to it Yet you show no similar astonishment concerning the evil of Stalin. James A. Donald: > > Evil men, by

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
d slavery complaining about those episodes. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5ibjDrK757xI4qlX/NW0eJQnWdI267xZu+oMuBEO 4esmiD8ZBiOaoKK48vXdGpqBQjC43P2L5EtUa9k+i

The killer app for encryption

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
from clear that this encryption will enable all the potential uses of encryption that cypherpunks foresaw. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5fFQJC040+P9QrkF8BhWR4nUBWhNmexs1EH0ej6o 4a8EuzGFht8mQloFG16q2B76njPoWM/jVAzYAxKoQ

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
enience against a common enemy, an alliance that both sides know will end in war or near war fairly soon. This however seldom leads good men to mistake evil men for 'good guys" --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG x2lNKl

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
Truly great. > > In doing so you have manifested what has been written here > > about "gasing into the abyss" and so on. On 17 Dec 2003 at 8:36, Jim Dixon wrote: > I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked > and getting a haircut. :-| > > -- > Jim Dixon [EM

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread James A. Donald
eful competition is a greater threat to the rulers, for example "harmful tax competition". One of the major goals of the EU is to restrain 'harmful tax competition". Similarly one of the major goals of the WTO is to prevent what cypherpunks call regulatory arbitrage.

U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-16 Thread James A. Donald
really must be when you discount all that capitalist propaganda." --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Lh9C/c3J2U0bybWlK/P0f5hnnZT1z+2QEe1K9Ev2 4cVVWOLkCVsvYQG/u75vRB5xVrL2GjBeaEl+j6x07

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-15 Thread James A. Donald
im. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG DijbC0CdsDlDq+JMzf6Soaoy/uQpAPvQzIqw+vZV 4V4l1cML3B68fAUZdXEQULOypQU+iOODMqAEAhN3z

Re: The silliness of those who argue that gold is the key to untraceability

2003-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
ne stable isotope of gold" is embematic of the > delusions which the gold bugs and offshore platform silly > people have. I can rather easily open a pecunix account with a hotmail address. Opening a swiss bank account is considerably harder. --digsig

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy

2003-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
th power. Every atom of gold is identical to every other atom of gold. There is only one stable isotope. E-gold does not provide untraceability -- but gold does. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG sxD6FejwJO/

Re: ALTA/DMT privacy [was: Re: (No Subject)]

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
references in the system to > that account are also deleted from all ALTA/DMT dbs. Trust us. Would we lie to you? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9P+3EaOU5V9RRtuNGi0n0/2XlM5S3RxLGzOoIMh7 4Imw9MND4w22DnR2n6tOp834DoLrSedKMdIsQGxwn

alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
his recipient sets his newsagent to always download all new messages) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zMY49IWQvar+nBxNmFDbRihngyDWi30UIYQY9NAh 4rVDPJdqGIjPUeycOPjbn3AbW2+7fZ0HFzy2xQEeX

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
t is pro capitalist, and pro progress. As living standards rise, we are going to spend more on intangibles and natural beauty, and the interesting question is how to do this in a capitalist, hi-tech, framework. --digsig James A. Donald 6

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread James A. Donald
physical gold, which actually is anonymous, and provides a physical mix, since one gold atom looks very like another. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG gFHr0U97wM1IeLX9SRCadMi2qoG+8FaaFXSdMlnB 41xSX7dI0Au/V2pVkuLX2tYRDvsRZ76g3jqqc7NYe

Re: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

2003-12-08 Thread James A. Donald
On 8 Dec 2003 at 13:17, Tim May wrote: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF > -8&safe=off&threadm=220820032357238678%25timcmay%40removethis.got.net& > rn um=1&prev=/ > groups%3Fq%3Dfrederickson%2Bgot%2Btim%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26ie%3D > UT F-8%26oe%3DUTF > -8%26sa

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-08 Thread James A. Donald
ople. Those using this rhetoric believe they know better than other people what is good for those other people, and intend to whack those other people for their own good. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG h0PDSIpmiXP6g+EXs3h

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-08 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tim May: > >> And, as many have noted, very few of the "kids" today are > >> libertarians (either small L or large L). James A. Donald: > > When you were a teenager, everyone thought that Ho Chi Minh > > was the greatest, had a picture of Che Gue

Re: Type III Anonymous message

2003-12-07 Thread James A. Donald
On 7 Dec 2003 at 22:25, Eugen Leitl wrote: > I'm seeing similiar trends across > virtually all my mailing lists, so I presume it's the medium itself > that it's in decline. Spam. people are continually abandoning old addresses. Of course it does not help that the cypherpunks list itself under p

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-07 Thread James A. Donald
same demo, he would see a crowd of old farts, and you would see a crowd of young punks with nose rings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /JGPIvI11TGnJc6gE6/w/g6k0rZwAOZZoka0PiIJ 4DnWpX4iPZy18KuWpdzmsERHsIS6O34J+itCHGsE2

Deniable data storage

2003-11-05 Thread James A. Donald
I want to store information deniably. So there would be a fixed sized block of data, say one megabyte, increasing by multiples of 8 as needed. This would contain various items of information that one could extract by supplyin a secret, symmetric, key. A random key would extract a block of gi

Deniable data storage

2003-11-05 Thread James A. Donald
extract a random length of gibberish, a valid key would extract a stream of valid data, and revealing one secret key to the adversary would not give the adversary any evidene that more secrety keys were present or absent. Any good known algorithms for this? --digsig James A

Re: Critique of CyberInsecurity report

2003-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
to view me naked -- just click yes to all the stupid dialogs that come up" --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG EVBFXSY8i4yhJTutdCL23/zyQbi/geQCUHZqoCr7 4J07R9CO6/ynTCaqgsY63x7wtTEVaTRpK5nt5xMio

The world turned upside down.

2003-09-22 Thread James A. Donald
chaumian money. The fact that no-true-name money seems to be beating true-name money leads me hope that economics can beat inertia and regulation. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ForgDjc+maghCgZHGp2ILgpQ1EJ4weji+guNpA6d 4

Re: Cathedra and the Bizarre: Why Free Stuff is Good

2003-09-07 Thread James A. Donald
n the ass. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w43FmWVSVxGrGkglKwhrbDlYPv+GcqZ9RzftUTCi 4nRt4abzGjha5XY7VEVcS7IDx7m9vN9VBDIRElHh7

Re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-05 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > > > SSH server public/private keys are widely deployed. > > > > PKI public keys are not. Reason is that each SSH > > > > server just whips up its own keys without asking > > > > anyone's permission, or getting any ce

Re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-04 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Outlook and outlook express support digital signing and > > encryption -- but one must first get a certificate. > > > > Now what I want is a certificate that merely asserts that > > the holder of the certificate can receive email at suc

re: Getting certificates.

2003-09-03 Thread James A. Donald
, which is why very few people have been prepared to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tvYlPJRcqo6WpcnJV+UoskrpqMAjhfJBgGyIDKtO 4lu+EE81UdLOihMlOIZFKZbPYYYlp9BIfRfdHBM7K

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-31 Thread James A. Donald
ot talk. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pXsE+dTMchTRGLEth/KG4Jybjex3fXnxmX/kW5ib 4kdDio/+p4tSHV+rTtDmhuzBJzAy9O9sadnf10+fR

Re: The Word Spy for 08/28/2003 -- darknet

2003-08-31 Thread James A. Donald
bles their butterfly suit. In defence of the brigands from Redmond, their extensions genuinely are improvements for the most part. "Darknet" is an improvement on "blacknet", since it really does come in shades of gray. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+n

Re: Digicash Patents

2003-08-03 Thread James A. Donald
d more importantly, do it a lot cheaper than you can. This provides a strong argument for making your payment service truly irreversible, that is to say, Chaumian. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wPTF3iJd+YV5zLY6lEBVNFkcGnm

Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-27 Thread James A. Donald
ment that plan, has somehow magically made the workers in a poor country worse off, that saving, investment and entrepeneurship is unproductive, that investment, particularly investment by rich people creating the means of production in poor countries, is a plot to swindle the poor, a scam, a tra

Re: Dead Body Theatre

2003-07-25 Thread James A. Donald
get hurt, and the defeated ruler would get a luxurious retirment on some faraway island. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG THNKT3gL3AwBfoRbW2WZnMNXz8Akom29NnINipEv 4MdS8qn6JSWbyiQCAy1KLdvD8QUhSGjYrcxLX8RNC

Re: Reporter writing article on proffr/mattd and threats

2003-07-04 Thread James A. Donald
ederal prosecutors need killing. I received email from a reporter on the same topic, I presume the same reporter. I am inclined to suspect that the reporter is a fed. Professor rat is too deranged to be a fed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR

Re: All quiet on the western front

2003-07-02 Thread James A. Donald
nagers have not changed, instead we have become those old fogies we revolted against. We did not realize that the port Huron statement turned us into young fogies, the doddering senile washed up old bolsheviks. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zM6pUlk6ZJ3PNi5XRMFqgmuU2xj28x3t55x+IgFu 46aIWX5lC5VdjpVgTOT5JiMBx1VdJYnsZT/eVKQ2t

Re: Quoting Anne Coulter is like...

2003-06-20 Thread James A. Donald
against Fox, when Fox's reporting of the war turned out to be accurate, while MSNBC turned out to be wildly inaccurate. Watching MSNBC, one would have thought that the US was in for a Stalingrad style battle for Baghdad, at a time when Fox accurately reported that resistance had collapsed.

Re: An attack on paypal

2003-06-10 Thread James A. Donald
es by default, it would make little difference to security. A wide variety of ways of getting big name certificates that one should not have, have been discovered. Attackers never showed much interest. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3Tdz

Re: An attack on paypal

2003-06-10 Thread James A. Donald
art, where the server, but not the client, is supposedly authenticated, does not do much good. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9ZQw+0/xh1y28CkGulSQSVxewfy71qzXGHI8KJbN 4osBv1veq07jaMVh2zVetZVKqIRfQjiwJaKu99GqM

The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix

2003-06-08 Thread James A. Donald
I keep posting "you cannot do this using https", and people keep = replying "yes you can" No you cannot, cause if you could, paypal, e-gold, e-bay, and the rest = would not be suffering from the problem illustrated by scam mails such = as the following (When you hit the submit button, guess what

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-07 Thread James A. Donald
e been key administrator for several companies, and have unfailingly found that I was the only person capable of doing these operations at that company. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG v6gZFuZoUgyGH55ME+JoilJSfw5LrufrbWWB454U 4FhiB65yyXwp1RgeJrLADfEYBoqz0YAch8fJ0Fisp

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Certificate caching is not the problem that needs solving. > > The problem is all this spam attempting to fool people into > > logging in to fake BofA websites and fake e-gold websites, > > to steal their passwords or credit card numbers On

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

2003-06-06 Thread James A. Donald
ame user as last time. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG q1a1Whb1YeRws7qoDm6h15qfDstFHciUyP2I4fte 42lCFXf0IqXfh5Mz2mFtznxv6N40EuqpKvQJhLBgS

Re: Silly wiccan, tricks are for kids!

2003-04-02 Thread James A. Donald
aces where human sacrifice and/or cannibalism has been reported. A bunch of politically correct people have written books denying this stuff, but they are just lying. The druids conducted human sacrifice as a form of terror, probably to maintain their authority. --digsig James A. Dona

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-04-01 Thread James A. Donald
or been arrested. On these matters, the matters in dispute, the US press must be more or less telling the truth, spinning it but not totally lying. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6fxj7GERad3pVCNYJEUKlrfmVElIfTowYaQ6eXu3 4/cC3r1eeWi4IhogVi2IB18HPcWu2xcBRUXHSSr3E

RE: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-31 Thread James A. Donald
then the truth must be utopia" --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wCxnAT2PNMNcMyCXq/xgLGiZEVissgspgxkCy7sP 4+x2A1dre3+aoQBmzAT1MjDuIURilENPf6f37doJe

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
tlefields to collect the artillery casing boxes. This indicates that the US, as claimed is, taking extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties, and is having considerable success in avoiding civilian casualties. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnS

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SKftD3iO5jEjgK/DD7/KHtmYPRg6AxRM6VoCCMVd 4EwomPyztP4ywyl/PXmpq8ssvNutxjj3lMHHPmEb2

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > Not inside the cities they can't, not without tons of > > > collateral damage, which will crucify Dubbya and Blair. James A. Donald: > > No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an > > intact Iraq) least of all the prote

Re: CDR: Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
like me". "Commie" is an explanation for the fact that hostile lies about US allies who fought communists are usually accompanied by favorable lies about the Soviet Union and its servants. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
ectronic payment. Would need infrastructure for micropayments. At present NO ONE has any infrastructure for small electronic payments. Also the payments would have to be anonymous, or somehow grouped, or there would be massive loss of privacy. The obvious solution is chaumian micro cash. --di

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Ken Brown: > > > But there certainly was some assistance from the US to > > > the Taliban. US They didn't buy those 500 Stingers in > > > Kmart James A. Donald: > >Commie lies. > > At the beginning of the recent Afghan war the US estimate

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
ts is because they have been kissing US ass while simultaneously kissing terrorist ass. It is embarrassing to attack someone who loudly proclaims "I am on your side", even if one is inclined to doubt the sincerity of these loud proclamations. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
e war it became apparent that they had far fewer, probably only the twelve that Hekmatyar gave them. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pxk0mbAvt7SxFwMxwrkSN3mDpHDczpZ/IKSVwwwl 4cZ+JYzhHn8RflEW05yx4Hv0MWgjjo0Ywhp9imV1O

Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show!

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
t defending themselves much with guns or scuds either. Some of them do not like Saddam, some of them do not like the fact that any resistance gets swiftly blasted, some of them are waiting for orders that will never come, because the command and control system has been blown up. --digs

Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
list would be accompanied by payment, which would be something considerably less than a cent, which would yield a profit to the mailing list operators. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Y6FMx3kifAEols9uNP5y5vg8sKYvXPMDutZc4nWU 4vxTg06gsQlG1PONar3AxatOVjnthx9NfjJGIDu6C

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
belongs to a sect that has never had a large following in Afghanistan, which is part of the reason why they drove out much of the Afghan population. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 53Wyhn5mvmbLsfCa8xeusjGGTFC0Ynkauohr4Uov 4nszIWnEYzkvcoHX0K/dqcsoCOCdvV1NwFasx3H/G

Re: When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
y will be a defeat. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pXZ8V7ZVSnZEJTIAOWVcd7RvKnGDxic8agd6TY6o 453h7nDyLl5QIvUPrVvYm1kEJJ/vJpfXSwkzd8wbm

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-13 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Comie fantasy. That theory is Marx's "monopoly capitalism". > > Commies have been loudly announcing Marx's prophecies to be > > coming true, even though after 1910 they no longer took the > > prophecies seriously themselv

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-13 Thread James A. Donald
to the prayer of the charismatics, where the congregation prays in tongues, rolls on the floor and has fits. The Trotskyists demand greater personal involvement and investment in lying, whereas the Stalinists merely expect the faithful to display solemn credulity. --digsig

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
100%" assumption presupposes that "the capitalists" are like the state, a single entity with a single will, in which case it is obvious that simply replacing the will of "the capitalists" with the will of "the people" would be a vast improvement, rather than

Re: Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
like the internet, where paths tend to ramble in not very direct fashion, the kind of road system an anarchic society, where roads were not made according to any central plan, would produce. Then, there would be no problem with one particular turnpike operator turning away blacks, or turning away whites

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
get the feeling that they would put me in the gulag if they could, along with most of their audience. Similarly recall the debate between Chagnon and his various opponents. The joke so often made about feminists is also very much applicable to those than in the America call themselves liberal

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > You are making all this crap up. Eric Cordian > Each of the stories I cited was reported by multiple news > outlets. Multiple pinko liars. > The Donahue story alone had 12 hits on Google News. Donahue's abysmal ratings disprove the story that Do

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-01 Thread James A. Donald
r daily lives, depicting the distressing effect on the Palestinians of various Israeli collective punishments. Not sure what station it was on. Terribly earnest public good stuff. Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that are open

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-28 Thread James A. Donald
", however, it is > important to recognize that often something we think of as > universal is merely universal to those who share our cultural > and historical perspectives. Doubtless among Margaret Mead's happy fun loving socialist free love practicing Samoans, three plus t

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
7;re doing in the Middle East. Originally, Chomsky claimed that the Khmer Rouge were rebuilding Cambodia, that they were comparable to the french resistance, that the stories of massacres had been repeatedly discovered to be false, and so on and so forth. --digsig James A.

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-22 Thread James A. Donald
illustrated in France. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG U48sX6NjfrRrL9phB4/+EDmv+60I2TdKVSEEAb4a 4+X/X9IOWyzrFjI3Sd2AdJhWeQ1dYpT72RgMVDgm4

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

2003-02-20 Thread James A. Donald
> So the US killed a lot of people there, so as to > spread respect for freedom and democracy, and installed another > dictator without elections, or any plan for elections The current leader was elected, not in accordance with western democratic norms that some people want to impose of Afghans

A prediction

2003-02-18 Thread James A. Donald
prediction that will stay around forever, and that anyone can access. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3rT39X0tK/achxadga6VroywQS4zOG2gO3dRqVMR 4CYbiDrubd6eY/xSd0CfSlyyJD9PAqYEqRlxKFMjS

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

2003-02-15 Thread James A. Donald
is more likely to use them on Hollywood and New York, which he sees as Jew central, than on Washington. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG uiZiEjO95FxTeiMKMVdRJWhz4aA8aiyXg5robB1O 4hSIDs1M/EEsg1tg9XPSN672+2gUYMy1JvcaEymHs

Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

2003-02-14 Thread James A. Donald
ision trillions of trillions of times larger than we can now control. Then we could remake a small region of space time to have physical laws that we might find more convenient for some purposes. All of this, however, seems hard. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZ

RE: The Wimps of War

2003-02-12 Thread James A. Donald
om clear that the US has the necessary will and virtue to apply it in Iraq. The Germans and the French are not very keen on doing it at all, but realizing that position is unpopular, instead say they doubt the US will to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
ose who disagreed with the one overly optimistic estimate -- but the association is thin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8af9YKuTzIfi6eW+kuKC5iSQr1ItRdPJmiiqa7oK 40um9WOOe1GxHnczql5Bykr/viCnjY0+DHauSAK8v

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

2003-01-30 Thread James A. Donald
sting research findings, which means that their scientists want to publish interesting research findings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vj9XFJICkQyBZHtzNbSmc+aK6sW4+dfeCW2jBsxp 4SNzRPDCqDY1oqcXuKPS207CG2oaSOsRAObNR7CKl

Re: CDR: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?

2003-01-29 Thread James A. Donald
On 28 Jan 2003 at 19:46, Marc de Piolenc wrote: > PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a > record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the > USA is always being compared) don't "count" a child as born until it > has reached a certain age (three weeks in

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

2003-01-28 Thread James A. Donald
lic key) and there's > verification. Yep. Same dude. (You then procede to prostrate > yourself before this obvious godlet, stating "I'm not worthy, > Sire".) This can be done without a palm pilot. Normally the flesh and blood Tyler Durden would reveal kno

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald > wrote: > > > > If it was only the executives and a handful of highly > > qualified specialists, you would not need the army. >Of course you would. L

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as > > > > well as foreign scab l

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

2003-01-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > Well, but only a strike of the executives and some > > > technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: > > When they bring out the army against the strikers as well > > as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver:

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

2003-01-18 Thread James A. Donald
ng of death. This makes me suspect that the original Bin Laden is now a grease smear on some Afghan rocks, since the original Bin Laden was a Heideggerean, and would spit on any Marxist unless that Marxist was dying of thirst in the desert. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/c

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-15 Thread James A. Donald
eries that massacre reports were :: false. Of course no such discoveries are to be found in the material he cites, and his article appeared shortly after the massacres reported by the refugees were devastatingly confirmed by when such a massacre occurred on the border. --digsig Ja

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-13 Thread James A. Donald
s that some readers would fail to see that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks really do go hunting black people. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VZWpdVuMGJXwD+8kUsrx9HO13zFp6hwvFIsezAEw 414DzHlNJd+xhIFwTZwjjprhbh3YCmMrWCkNV4SM5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

2003-01-08 Thread James A. Donald
at becoming acceptable for men. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eeK7Lx/2xa/jMsqP3nKuxuq4g/yRmQtaTm/6pzMG 4WNfeWcezvgs7vrhiCTz68qRAGREiuHgqil78zrNJ

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > It is unsurprising that with current computing power we > > should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to > > emulate a nematode is troubling. Eugen Leitl > The crunch power is there. We're lacking a good enough model, > an

Re: Make antibiotic resistant pathogens at home! (Re: Policing Bioterro Research)

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
house. The toxicity of dioxins is much overhyped. Any large power transformer that overheats is the equivalent of your dioxin bomb, and so far no one has noticed the supposedly devastating destruction created by such events. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3Tdz

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

2002-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
some special quality either of individual neurons or very small networks of neurons that we have not yet grasped. It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. --digsig Jame

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
-- William Warren > voting keeps you free..voting is our way of controlling and > shaping the government. In http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_19/PT hy_Chap_19.html David Friedman explains why democracy does not work. --digsig James A.

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-21 Thread James A. Donald
goes on. By voting, you give the appearance of consent to what the government does to you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xmBBW56MrvFmh7U6fPSMDbyYqa+PTDPhTlRLmwmD 4cHSTvSFFo32sjmnBGPqe0vLtp3CfQhXyVLccQaXm

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

2002-12-20 Thread James A. Donald
r and mass murder. The fact that Disney, and lots of other groups own various small things makes me free. Voting does not make me free. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qikI/Zvu3HswGlLSZkKaevQ3pU6OY28ELljC0Jbd 4cAxIRdESGs/ZREaCsKc0sn3T8IF21aiD8Wwoy3Os

Re: To Marcel Popescu On the Interventionist pseudo-Libs

2002-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
le and digress. To get back on point, if those who purport to be objectivists are also militant zionist interventionists, we should not take their supposed objectivist ideals too seriously. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3

Re: Verdict's in: Elcomsoft NOT GUILTY of criminal DMCA violations

2002-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
On 17 Dec 2002 at 16:43, Steve Schear wrote: > [I'm more convinced than ever that nullification figured into the > verdict. If so, bravo for the jury. steve] Both the defense and the prosecution sought to make the facts clear and understandable to the jury. So the defense was betting on nulli

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