Gee. I'm crushed.
Alger Hiss *was* a Spy.
The Rosenbergs *were* spies.
Oppenheimer *was* a Communist.
Gosh. Who'da thunk it?
;-)
Cheers,
RAH
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THE OPPENHEIMER RIDDLE
New
Steve Furlong writes:
Does anyone know of a reference implementation for Stefan Brands's
digital certificate scheme? Alternatively, does anyone have an email
address for Brands so I can ask him myself? (I haven't gotten anything
back from ZKS's contact us address. But I don't know if Brands is
Jack Lloyd wrote:
Still, I liked this quote: 'I came to vote because wasting one's ballot in a
democracy is a sin, he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US these
days, it seems like.
What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al I
Invented the Innnernet Gore, and
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:18:52AM -0400, sunder wrote:
Jack Lloyd wrote:
Still, I liked this quote: 'I came to vote because wasting one's ballot
in a
democracy is a sin, he told the BBC.' Not too common a view in the US
these
days, it seems like.
What do you expect when the previous
Thus spake sunder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 11:31]:
: What do you expect when the previous choice we've had was between Al I
: Invented the Innnernet Gore, and George Nucular Dubbya?
Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through
various mis-wordings and lax
Damian Gerow wrote:
Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through
various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to
represent what he said through that phrase.
What he /actually/ claimed (and what he /actually/ did) was recognize its
importance, and then
Damian Gerow wrote:
Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a
/good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser evil
than the current president.
THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't have to vote for the
lesser evil, but when your
Hmmm... that's a thought. Tim May as president. Election slogan: You're
*all*
going up the chimneys.
Wasn't there something close a few years ago? I remember a write-in campaign
to get Unabomber Ted Kascinsky elected as President.
-TD
From: Jack Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: sunder [EMAIL
Thus spake sunder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 13:38]:
: Hey, I'm no fan of Tipper either. And I'm not saying that Al Gore was a
: /good/ choice. But in retrospect, he probably would have been a lesser
: evil
: than the current president.
:
: THAT, ultimately is the meta-point. You shouldn't
Thus spake sunder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 13:10]:
: Actually, Mr. Gore didn't once claim to invent the Internet. Through
: various mis-wordings and lax fact-checkings, the Mass Media came to
: represent what he said through that phrase.
:
: What he /actually/ claimed (and what he
An Metet wrote:
In my devotion to freedom, I apparently go beyond the point where most
cypherpunks are comfortable, in that I support private initiatives and
technologies of all sorts and oppose government regulation of them.
I am a supporter and admirer of Microsoft, which has achieved tremendous
Damian Gerow wrote:
Who you vote for is up to you. I'm not telling you to vote for him, I'm
just correcting a pretty large non-truth propogated by American media.
B*llshit. From a transcript of an interview of Al Gore by Wolf Blitzer:
Thus spake Pete Capelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 13:56]:
: Who you vote for is up to you. I'm not telling you to vote for him, I'm
: just correcting a pretty large non-truth propogated by American media.
:
: B*llshit. From a transcript of an interview of Al Gore by Wolf Blitzer:
:
Damian Gerow wrote:
I don't give a flying fuck who you vote for, who the options are, what you
think of them, or even if they're convicted drunk drivers hell-bent on
converting the world to their belief system (...).
You, sir, are in great need of an enema.
*PLONK*
: B*llshit. From a transcript of an interview of Al Gore by Wolf Blitzer:
:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript.gore/
:
: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative
in
: creating the Internet.
Yes, that's exactly what he
Thus spake Pete Capelli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 16:01]:
: Yes, that's exactly what he said:
:
: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/
:
: That's not saying that he invented the internet, it's saying that he took
: initiative in creating it. Two very different things.
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 12:58, sunder wrote:
Al's prise pig of a wife, Tipper, helped found the PMRC
against lyrics in songs.
And, like all statists, they went widely astray of their goals. Frank
Zappa's _Jazz from Hell_ got a Tipper Sticker, indicating obscene
lyrics. They didn't notice that
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:12:40PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
Agreed, every politician has their own problems. I /personally/ don't
believe that Mr. Gore was trying to take credit for 'inventing' the
Internet. His wording is incredibly vague, and I agree that it could be
taken as him
Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]:
:And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks to the left
: of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. Extremely
: few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What
Yamamoto is also optimistic that this technique will find commercial
applications. Display of secret information on PDA and computer screens
are practical applications, he explained. Other business applications
include: securing the screen of a terminal at a bank; an operator screen
that
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