Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: From the article: The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be transmitted. This is totally bogus thinking. The Internet is not broadcast medium. Yes, it is.

Top Clinton-crats rewarded themselves with dubious cash bonuses

2002-12-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
Despite prohibition, Clinton appointees got bonuses By Tanya N. Ballard Despite a presidential directive designed to keep mid- and high-level political appointees from getting cash bonuses, some appointees in the Clinton administration did receive such bonuses in the last year of the

Please help: MFN is no longer listed as a Hate Group! (fwd)

2002-12-16 Thread Alif The Terrible
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 14:50:17 -0600 (CST) From: Alif The Terrible [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please help: MFN is no longer listed as a Hate Group! It is with sadness and deep concern that I

Re: Please help: MFN is no longer listed as a Hate Group! (fwd)

2002-12-16 Thread Vayu Anonymous Remailer
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:25:40 -0500, Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh? I don't get it. I can believe that the SPLC is silly/reactionary enough to list something that innocuous, but any such listing does not appear in archive.org's history or google's cache. -Declan

Re: Please help: MFN is no longer listed as a Hate Group! (fwd)

2002-12-16 Thread Alif The Terrible
I suppose a little background would help :-) Check out: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/secpubs/computer.pdf , page 40. When this report was brought to my attention in late Q4 2000, it prompted a bunch of web searches to see what companion listings might have been generated: SPLC was one

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-16 Thread Dave Howe
Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: From the article: The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be transmitted. This is totally bogus thinking. The Internet is not broadcast medium.

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

2002-12-16 Thread Mike Rosing
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: Firstly,they cannot be exterminated.There is no proof of identity as we may have in our countries and no body will ask for it either,since most don't have one. The Taliban would have cut their beard and hair and mixed up with civilian population,while

Re: Libel lunacy -all laws apply fnord everywhere

2002-12-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Schear wrote: From the article: The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was different from other broadcasters, who could decide how far their signal was to be transmitted. This is totally bogus thinking. The

Re: Please help: MFN is no longer listed as a Hate Group! (fwd)

2002-12-16 Thread Declan McCullagh
Ah, thanks for the background. I'd be happy to publicize the SPLC's silliness. (See: http://www.politechbot.com/p-03500.html) But I haven't seen any verifiable evidence (a URL, news story) saying that MFN was listed as a hate group. Can you either point me to such a reference or write a summary

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

2002-12-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Sarad AV wrote: Firstly,they cannot be exterminated.There is no proof of identity as we may have in our countries and no body will ask for it either,since most don't have one. The Taliban would have cut their beard and hair and mixed up with civilian