Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and kittens

2004-04-02 Thread Nomen Nescio
At 05:39 PM 4/1/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, Does she have a chip implant? I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food Ask her to

Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see in the following article the kernel of geodesic markets for force. Actually a sort of re-emergence, I suppose, remembering letters of marque, etc., and my idea about the decline in switching costs unwinding the development of human-switched

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Trei, Peter
Steve Furlong wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food, she doesn't like my cat, and I don't want her getting any ideas.

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly, it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything else. Tasted good. Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that species? I mean, if you beat a

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:46 AM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: The idea is, if transaction and price discovery costs fall enough, private force companies that auction their services in a free market become better than the public ones that rely on confiscated tax revenue. Only if they offer comparable services.

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:38:07AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Steve Furlong wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 16:21, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Tastes just like chicken? Can we change the subject? My girlfriend is Chinese, I've already eaten things that I wouldn't have considered to be food,

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 4/2/04 11:39:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Just out of curiosity, what kind of lion was it? Because after all we do know that curiosity killed the cat. Regards, Freematt-

RE: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and k i ttens (and lions and bears, oh my!)

2004-04-02 Thread Trei, Peter
Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 11:38 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I haven't eaten domestic cat, but I have eaten lion. Suprisingly, it was a light tender meat, resembling veal more than anything else. Tasted good. Just out of curiosity, how did you verify that it was in fact that species?

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 8:59 AM -0800 4/2/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The govt has a monopoly on certain tools of the trade. Of course, that always hasn't worked right in other industries. The peculiar institution of geographic force monopoly will be an interesting

Re: [Politech] John Gilmore on the homeless, RFID tags, and ki ttens

2004-04-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:55, Harmon Seaver wrote: Chickens ain't herbivores, they are omnivores, and, in fact, prefer meat, bugs, etc. to all else. Yah, ducks and geese, too. But factory chickens, which is almost all of the chicken most Americans eat, are fed mostly grain. A lot of

Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 National devolution proceeds apace. Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while putting

Re: Private U.S. Guards Take Big Risks for Right Price

2004-04-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:04 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Nozick argues force-monopoly naturally emerges from *any* force market, that, IIRC, associations will collude and eventually merge under peaceful circumstances, and, of course, if one fights the other, it takes the other's turf. Personally, I wonder

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:29 PM 4/2/04 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Howie Carr is shocking Chris Wallace just now about partitioning Iraq into three countries, Kurdish (who will have oil), Shiite (who will have oil), and Sunni (who will not; geography's a bitch), all while putting a Sharon-Fence around the newly

Re: [IP] U.S. may need to step in, says cybersecurity report

2004-04-02 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 2:58 PM -0500 4/2/04, Jerrold Leichter wrote: Ahem. Did you notice the issue date and time? Damn. My only gotcha all day... April fool, indeed. :-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Re: Shock waves from Fallujah

2004-04-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
Bah -- none of these clueless idiots get it. The Shiites will start doing the same thing as soon as it becomes clear that they're not going to get any real election. The dimwit westerners keep talking about civil war, but the Sunnies and Shiites aren't. They both know full well who's trying to