Re: New Scientist - Virtual world to run on real cash... (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Dave Howe
Jim Choate wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3180 yeah. downloaded that (its about 300MB!) and after going though the setup it doesn't like my video card *sigh* At first look though, it would appear the system is set up for a decent proportion of the money to flow in the

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'SHotel

2002-12-14 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, this is for me not an easy issue. Amerika has always had a hard-on for fascism (as long as it was in the service of freedom), and as a result the pendulum seems to swing pretty wildly at times. It's not America, it's people. Some have compared

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-14 Thread Sarad AV
hi, All represive regiemes are short lived in a historical context. The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops moved into kabul there were no traces of the taliban.They took what ever they wanted and were 'refugees' sneaking out when the bombing started.They placed what they needed ,every

Re: NYPD To Begin Fingerprinting Visitors To HQ

2002-12-14 Thread John Young
Schemes for vengeance that promise safety for the avenger won't cut it, for those are the coward's way and can be countered by upping the promise to hurt the coward, which knocks out the will to act beyond bravado. It's true that most of the world's leaders, and petty aspirants to power, exhort

Re: Gilmore's response

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Schear
At 12:47 PM 12/13/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a possible trip coming up soon. I intend to have my tickets purchased by a third party and fly under an assumed name (maybe Tyler Durden ;-) I will carry no ID on my

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Mike Rosing wrote: Content is crap, conectivity is king A.M. Odlyzko at Univ. Wisconsin, early 2002 (May I think?) Bullshit, if there isn't content why do they want connectivity? What is it they are connecting to? Content (ala entertainment or problem resolution) are what

Re: Gilmore's response

2002-12-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a possible trip coming up soon. I intend to have my tickets purchased by a third party and fly under an assumed name (maybe Tyler Durden ;-) I will carry no ID on my person. Perhaps there is now a need to have large numbers of refusnik travelers

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Furlong
On Friday 13 December 2002 11:44, Trei, Peter wrote: ... this sort of thing could give the Libertarian Party legs, if they handled it right. Hahahahahahaha -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel You don't expect governments to obey the law because of some higher

Re: Cpunks: The Tee-shirt

2002-12-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
Nice! I just got an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer (a pigment-based ink jet printer used for photo prints, see http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/Epson2200.shtml). I should be able to buy that t-shirt transfer stuff and give it a shot. Also should include: Convicted me in a

Re: [IP] Dan Gillmor: Accessing a whole new world via multimedia phones (fwd)

2002-12-14 Thread Steve Furlong
Jim Choate, in a display of bad judgement and ill temper never before seen on the internet, spewed forth the following blood-libel: Nitwit, who are the daughters talking to, dial-tone? Not. They are solving two problems, entertainment and a problem (social connectivity). The point was, the

Re: Gilmore's response

2002-12-14 Thread Adam Shostack
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 02:47:37PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: | Dare you to do this with your Groucho glasses on :-) | | Oh, you saw me at RSA, eh? (Last year I guess it was, the RSA's staff | allowed me to be photo ID'd wearing them as long as I promised to wear them | on the show floor,

Re: Extradition, Snatching, and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

2002-12-14 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: The Taliban is still very much alive,when troops moved into kabul there were no traces of the taliban.They took what ever they wanted and were 'refugees' sneaking out when the bombing started.They placed what they needed ,every body else needed to

Re: [FYI] TSA rules: Religious or Cultural Needs: Take off your fucking yarmulke

2002-12-14 Thread Declan McCullagh
Reposted to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04251.html We'll see if there are any takers. -Declan On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 12:57:19PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: http://www.tsa.dot.gov/public/display?content=295

War on drugs...

2002-12-14 Thread Vayu Anonymous Remailer
The response of the apparatchiks is to increase the penalties until we're all cowed, like they did in the old war on drugs. As long as they are that successful, we don't have too much to worry about! Besides, the CIA ships more drugs into the US than all the other cartels combined.