[speak-freely] for Windows 7.6-A2 pre-release now available (fwd)

2003-03-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas Shaddack
The difference between private property owners doing this, and the governemnt doing this is that 100% of private property owners are NOT going to agree on anything. This presumes the existence of significant amount of (at least potentially) competing private owners - then it is valid argument.

The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an anarchy, they are whole a fiction of the state. And, since corporations are just a method for thieves and criminals to evade the reprecussions of their crimes, i.e., no personal financial or legal responsibility as there would be

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Sunder
At which point Tim will countersue with an arguement similar to this: Mega Corporation: Your oxygen is tresspassing on my private property. Any oxygen that does so becomes mine to do with as I please. Further, since you have been unable to keep your pesky Oxygen off my property, I am hereby

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread John Young
Thomas Shaddack wrote: Last time I checked, cryptography (and technologies in general) empowers the Individual against the Bigger Entities - regardless if they are Megacorps or Governments[1]. Hence, anticorporate views have their natural place on this list. [1] As the entanglement between

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 04:15 PM, Anonymous wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 01:33 am, Tim May wrote: Silly person, a property does not have rights. Owners have rights. And these apply whether one person, 5 persons, or a group of co-owners own something. Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, LP 2000

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
On Friday 07 March 2003 00:52, gann wrote: A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and calls the police has been developed snip I'm in favor of it snip Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare.

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:52, Tim May wrote: Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. MegaCorp doesn't have property rights to the air, but Amazon was recently granted a patent on A Process for Bringing Oxygen into the Body. -- Steve FurlongComputer Condottiere

Re: The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 07:14 AM, Harmon Seaver wrote: I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an anarchy, they are whole a fiction of the state. And, since corporations are just a method for thieves and criminals to evade the reprecussions of their crimes, i.e.,

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:57:43AM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: You need to find some Green Party, anti-globalization, lesbo-pagan, registration of crypto mailing list that has your kind on it. Last time I checked, cryptography (and technologies in general) empowers the Individual against

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas Shaddack
You need to find some Green Party, anti-globalization, lesbo-pagan, registration of crypto mailing list that has your kind on it. Last time I checked, cryptography (and technologies in general) empowers the Individual against the Bigger Entities - regardless if they are Megacorps or

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Paul H. Merrill
It's actually Onizuka Air Force Station. It is contiguous to Moffet. And if one realizes the difference between collection, control, and interpretation, Some of the vile despicable actions become more clear. PHM - Original Message - From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CAPPS II pilot at San Jose - Delta to CAPPS II Boycotters: No more Coffee Mugs

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Stewart
Breaking news - The three airports in Delta's pilot project include San Jose. --- Last week Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED] announced the BoycottDelta.org protest against Delta's collaboration with the CAPPS II pass-law pilot project. Among other publicity activities, BoycottDelta.org had

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread A.Melon
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth amendment protections against self-incrimination. DUI

Questionable science and drunk drivers

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Broiles
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Doing the technical part of detecting alcohol vapor is cool, [...] Actually, that's not even really a solved problem yet, but that's not well-known outside of people who litigate drunk driving cases for a living. This article -

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:31:40 -0500 (est), Sunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Screw that - just buy a few thousand of these little devices, disable them so that they're always transmitting drunk driver and install them in politicians' cars all over DC (make sure you install'em in cop cars too.) You

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

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Thompson
Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler Durden wrote: Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of the New Jersey Turnpike gets turned over to a private company, which now owns and operates this section. So...now let's say I'm black. NO! Let's say

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tyler Durden wrote: Actually, I am dimly aware of this. From the little I've been able to glean, there is a very slow, steady progress in the 'science' of economics/econometrics. By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread John Young
We did a drive-by this afternoon of the National Reconnaissance Office HQ in Chantilly, VA, to see what corporations who operate its technology were in the neighborhood. Across the street was Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and a gaggle of same-faced untitled buildings. Down Conference Dr was the FBI's

Re: The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Major Variola (ret) wrote: I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an anarchy, they are whole a fiction of the state. In the sense of a govt-recognized, protected entity, granted. But not in terms of voluntary associations. Not all companies are corporations.

Re: The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:14 AM 3/9/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: I just realized this morning that corporations can't exiest in an anarchy, they are whole a fiction of the state. In the sense of a govt-recognized, protected entity, granted. But not in terms of voluntary associations. And, since corporations

Re: The Anarcho/libertarian world and corporations

2003-03-11 Thread Greg Broiles
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:31:52PM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: Not all companies are corporations. Corporations are a particular kind of company chartered by the state in order to absolve certain people of responsibility for their actions. There is a business form, whose name I forget

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 06:46 PM, John Young wrote: We did a drive-by this afternoon of the National Reconnaissance Office HQ in Chantilly, VA, to see what corporations who operate its technology were in the neighborhood. Across the street was Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and a gaggle of

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

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Thompson
--- Kevin S. Van Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: That's too logical, No, it's not. Logical actors dominate in the economy because those prone to excessive irrationality end up with little money to play with. Perhaps you aren't joking... I would be forced to agree

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Anonymous Sender
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: Did I invite the public in when an announcement was made for a meeting at my house last September? There were many people I had never met personally, nor even heard of. Nearly all were well-behaved, but what if someone had not been? Were my property rights

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:58 AM 3/9/03 -0500, Sunder wrote: At which point Tim will countersue with an arguement similar to this: Mega Corporation: Your oxygen is tresspassing on my private property. Any oxygen that does so becomes mine to do with as I please. Further, since you have been unable to keep your

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 10:19 PM -0600 on 3/9/03, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by engineers; Well, finance, anyway, where it is possible to calculate some risk. You can't calculate prices, though. You

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Anonymous Sender wrote: On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Tim May wrote: Did I invite the public in when an announcement was made for a meeting at my house last September? There were many people I had never met personally, nor even heard of. Nearly all were well-behaved,

Re: Monocultures, Choice, and Access to Food Must Be Equal!

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Tim May wrote: More time-consuming than I am prepared to commit to for an article which maybe 5 people will read!) Ah, you're too modest, Tim. In spite of the fact that you're a bigoted, misanthropic curmudgeon, at least you're an INTERESTING bigoted, misanthropic curmudgeon. :-)

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Paul H. Merrill wrote: It's actually Onizuka Air Force Station. It is contiguous to Moffet. And if one realizes the difference between collection, control, and interpretation, Some of the vile despicable actions become more clear. He said Moffett. I pointed

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
david wrote: But you wouldn't mind if insurance companies required the device in order for you to get a policy (whether or not it called the police or just the insurance company) ? Right ? If I did mind, I'd just find a different insurance company. It's a little bit harder for me to say, I

New release of Invisible IRC available

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Schear
IIP 1.1.0 (stable) is released. (2003-03-10) Invisible IRC Project is a three-tier, peer distributed network designed to be a secure and private transport medium for high speed, low volume, dynamic content. Features: * Perfect Forward Security using Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Protocol

Re: Questionable science and drunk drivers

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:41 AM 03/09/2003 -0800, Greg Broiles wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:10:35PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Doing the technical part of detecting alcohol vapor is cool, [...] Actually, that's not even really a solved problem yet, but that's not well-known outside of people who litigate drunk

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas Shaddack
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 themselves. Open your eyes and look around yourself. Take any bigger, established market -

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
R. A. Hettinga wrote: By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by engineers; Well, finance, anyway, where it is possible to calculate some risk. You can't calculate prices, though. You discover them. For commodities, if

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
On Monday, March 10, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: R. A. Hettinga wrote: By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by engineers; Well, finance, anyway, where it is possible to calculate some risk. You can't

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 08:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, you [whoever that was?] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device,

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
I wonder what the effect would be in states like WI which don't require auto insurance. Insurance is noticably cheaper here than in MN which does require it. On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 01:25:05PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: At 08:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday

CodeCon happenings [was: RE: Social democrats on our list]

2003-03-11 Thread Lucky Green
Anon wrote quoting Tim: Does my right to control my own property vanish when I become a shop or restaurant? How about when I get larger? Renowned cypherpunk Dave Del Torto thinks it does. This is the argument that he was using to try to gain admittance to CodeCon this year, after

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:44:44AM +0100, Anonymous wrote: But let's cut to the chase. Assume that all private grocery store owners want to exclude people from their stores. Now assume that 100% of them agree that effective Tuesday, only those people who have a receipt for a $100 or more

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

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
Steve Thompson wrote: Logical actors dominate in the economy because those prone to excessive irrationality end up with little money to play with. Perhaps you aren't joking... I would be forced to agree with you is you defined `logical' in this context to mean actors following the logic of

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: The difference between private property owners doing this, and the governemnt doing this is that 100% of private property owners are NOT going to agree on anything. On 9 Mar 2003 at 8:36, Thomas Shaddack wrote: This presumes the existence of significant amount of

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Anonymous
On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:52 am, Tim May wrote: Neither MegaCorp nor anyone else has property rights to the air. So rights only apply to land ? What's the frigg'in difference between dirt and air. It's all atoms. Did you specify that you also wanted rights to the air on your property when

Monocultures, Choice, and Access to Food Must Be Equal!

2003-03-11 Thread Tim May
(First, I apologize for my heavy use of parenthetical remarks here. Even more than usual, I see in reviewing what I have written. Writing in a smooth, continuous, no parenthetical or offset remarks style is time-consuming. More time-consuming than I am prepared to commit to for an article

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Keith Ray
Quoting Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? Also, as an added (perhaps necessary) benefit, the ability to protect (through anonymity) those that ran the site? There are three requirements for anonymous

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Skulking Rogue
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:52:29 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A tiny fuel cell that detects the alcoholic breath of a drink-driver and calls the police has been developed by a team of engineers at Texas Christian University. A pump draws air in from the passenger cabin, a platinum catalyst converts

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:06 PM 3/10/03 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? As Bill notes, there's no need to do it here. Specifically, my Epson Stylus 2200 can print

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Yes, but can it do organic synthesis? Current microfluidics will result in a chymische hochzeit with desktop nanolithoprinting. If you thought *current* ink cartridges were expensive...

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:04 AM 3/11/03 +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: 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 themselves. Open your eyes and look around

Re: Doubts on k-distribution

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Sarad AV wrote: Taking v=3 bit accuracy,the 3 leading bits are 000 100 110 111 In the example k=3 and v=3 So according to definition there are 2^(kv) possible combinations of bits occur the same number of times in a period. i.e 2^(3*3)=512 combinations. But

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:52 AM 03/10/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Just wondering... Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? If you wanted to do all the work of printing and mailing t-shirts yourself, and had a blacknet that was sufficiently strong for this kind

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

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Otherwise, if the company really wanted such a dickheaded policy, then yes, it would be their right. Of course, it would also be your right to organize a boycott, take an alternate route, or build your own spur route. This is the general gist of the arguments and so far I'm

Re: Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:52:04AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? As Bill notes, there's no need to do it here. Specifically, my Epson Stylus 2200 can print t-shirt transfers. The cost is $1 for the

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:56:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not crazy about everything that the government does, but there are trade- offs in a non-perfect society. One of them is monitoring the innocent to, in turn, attempt to prevent the guilty from trampling over everything, God

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, you wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth amendment

Re: Fw: Drunk driver detector that radios police

2003-03-11 Thread david
On Sunday 09 March 2003 18:16, A.Melon wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 10:31 am, david wrote: Neither you nor anyone else has the right to force me or any other individual to subsidize your welfare. This device, if forced on individuals by a government entity, would violate fourth

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

2003-03-11 Thread Tom Veil
Tyler Durden wrote on March 7, 2003 at 12:46:35 -0500: Tom Veil wrote... These fuckards really need to learn what private property is. ('Fuckards'. I like that. GIMMEE.) Alright. There's something I'm not getting here, so the Libertarians on the board are free to enlighten me. Let's

Sell inverse floaters to france

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Kevin Horne wrote... By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by engineers; in particular, it has been applied to investment analysis and portfolio theory, resulting in significant improvements in investment performance.

Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Just wondering... Would there be an easy blacknet way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? Also, as an added (perhaps necessary) benefit, the ability to protect (through anonymity) those that ran the site? Plus, another thought occurs to me. Is it possible, perhaps, via

Re: CDR: Monocultures, Choice, and Access to Food Must Be Equal!

2003-03-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Writes: Access to Food Must Be Equal! The Bush Administration is proposing radical changes in the way food has been purchased by Americans for the past hundred years. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter is floating the idea of a voucher system for groceries which would allow families

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tom Veil
Anonymous wrote on March 8, 2003 at 01:15:10 +0100: On Saturday 08 March 2003 01:33 am, Tim May wrote: Silly person, a property does not have rights. Owners have rights. And these apply whether one person, 5 persons, or a group of co-owners own something. Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, LP

Canaries in a corralitos coalmine.

2003-03-11 Thread professor rat
I'm imagining Tim sitting at his window with a shotgun and some high-tech oxygen detector... Or a couple of low tech parrots like Declan McCatohead and jya.Hopefully Mongo will do a Hemingway soon. The idea is not to convince anyone with your arguments but to provide the arguments with which

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Does it mean that such observations are invalid just because Marx predicted them? Good point. And also, just because someone points out that it looks like Marx's predictions may be coming true, it doesn't mean that that person believes this is desirable. -TD From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL