Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Bill Stewart wrote... Unfortunately, the primary algorithm seems to work like this: - Somebody puts a name on some list because it seems like a good idea at the time, and there's no due process required. - Everybody copies lists from everybody else, with minimal attempt to track

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread John Young
James, I appreciate your valiant if futile effort to defend honorable militarism, but you appear not to understand that much of current US military doctrine is aimed at terrorizing enemy forces, en masse, into submission, not merely courageously killing each combatant, mano a mano. Carpet

Re: Give peace a chance? NAH...

2004-10-19 Thread Dave Howe
Tyler Durden wrote: So. Why don't we see terrorist attacks in Sweden, or Switzerland, or Belgium or any other country that doesn't have any military or Imperliast presence in the middle east? Is this merely a coincidence? What I strongly suspect is that if we were not dickin' around over there

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- Thomas Shaddack: It isn't a problem for you until it happens to you. Who knows when being interested in anon e-cash will become a ground to blacklist *you*. James A. Donald: I know when it will happen. It will happen when people interested in anon ecash go on suicide

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:18 PM 10/18/2004, James A. Donald wrote: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041018-124854-2279r.htm : : Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to : : renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners : : of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have : :

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money

2004-10-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text To: R.A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money) From: Somebody at a Central Securities Depository :-) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:31:10 +0100 i buy the argument that transaction instantaneity is a

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread Bill Stewart
Damian Gerow I've had more than one comment about my ID photos that amount to basically: You look like you've just left a terrorist training camp. As Erma Bombeck wrote, by the time you look like your passport photo, it's time to come home from vacation. An extra couple of red-eye flights

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 19 Oct 2004 at 14:46, John Young wrote: you appear not to understand that much of current US military doctrine is aimed at terrorizing enemy forces, en masse, into submission, not merely courageously killing each combatant, mano a mano. Carpet bombing, bunker-busting, cruise

Re: Airport insanity..Ethnicity is Bullshit

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tyler Durden Let's just state the obvious: September 11th occurred not because we had a few crazy Muslim fundamentalists out there that decided they hate our freedoms. The struck us because we've been fuckin' over a large swath of the Muslim (not only Arab) world for 100 years or

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- Tyler Durden Your statement was that the US took special care in avoiding harm to Muslims. In this case we have Muslims tortured at Guantanamo and now angry as hell. And you expected...what? I expected them to be KEPT in Guantanamo. Furthermore, they were not tortured, though they

RE: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 18 Oct 2004 at 13:35, John Young wrote: James is wired to be unempathetic about victims, as was McVeigh, as are fearless military and criminal killers, as are national leaders of a yellow stripe who never taste the bitter end of their exculpatory spin. What makes the wire work is

[Humor] [TSCM-L] secret agent man!!! (fwd)

2004-10-19 Thread J.A. Terranson
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:02:53 -0700 From: A.Lizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [TSCM-L] secret agent man!!! Sad state of spying Intelligence vets are still musing over Michael Kostiw, whose reported

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 18 Oct 2004 at 15:31, Tyler Durden wrote: Aside from that, your posts are completely saturated with the They're more evil than we are therefore it's OK for us to be fuckin them over logic. They are more evil that we are, as demonstrated by their propensity to kill all sorts of

Re: Give peace a chance? NAH...

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: War is dangerous to freedom, but we do not have a choice of peace. The question is where the war is to be fought - in America, or elsewhere. War within America will surely destroy freedom. Tyler Durden wrote: So. Why don't we see terrorist attacks in Sweden,

Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money

2004-10-19 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 5:27 PM -0400 10/19/04, R.A. Hettinga wrote: David Somebody named David, apparently... ;-) Shoot me now, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however

Re: US Retardation of Free Markets (was Airport insanity)

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 19 Oct 2004 at 10:23, Tyler Durden wrote: Most Cypherpunks would agree that free markets are a good thing. Basically, if you leave people alone, they'll figure out how to meet the needs that are out in there and, in the process, get a few of the goodies available to us as vapors on

Re: Airport insanity

2004-10-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: Sadre protected himself with Iraqi women and young children as human shields, showing that he expected the Pentagon to show more concern for Iraqi lives than he did. Thomas Shaddack Pentagon protects their people by distance - being it by bombing from high

Re: Printers betray document secrets

2004-10-19 Thread Steve Furlong
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:14, Ian Grigg wrote: R.A. Hettinga wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/3753886.stm US scientists have discovered that every desktop printer has a signature style that it invisibly leaves on all the documents it produces. I don't think this is new -