And I hope that you die; And your death'll come soon

2004-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Seen the Norwegian site that calls for Bush's head shot? Two URLs, the last vivid: http://www.killhim.nu/ http://killhimwith.bazooka.at/once/ Quite refreshing (although a simple macromedia browser game would have been a nice touch) when a US teenager armed with a Dylan song warrants a visit

geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:42 PM 11/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Well, I guess I agree. However, there is some issues of Cypherpunkly importance here, particularly concerning nation-states fighting other nation-states. Though I can't consider myself a true-believing anarchist, my own personal reason for continuing

Tin Foil Passports?

2004-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 from the joke's-on-you dept. Daedala writes The debate over [1]contactless chips with biometric information in passports continues. Vendors have been chosen for testing in the [2]U.S.

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

2004-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the passport so it could be read only when opened.' Don't they

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. It's too bad this list is dying a death of a thousand paper cuts inflicted by moronic posts, as so many others had. I haven't used a .procmailrc in a

Re: Computerized war serves citizens virtual baloney

2004-11-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:52 PM 11/28/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: One group of loonies thinks anyone should be able to kill anything the easiest way possible -- simply because we can. Neo-cons? Instead, we have people who think it would be sporting to hunt and kill animals by remote-control with their

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled, determined, disciplined, and united. Observed police states

RE: Oswald

2004-11-29 Thread Trei, Peter
Steve Furlong wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Slsahdot reports that MSNBC reports http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6549265/ that there's a new video game JFK Reloaded http://www.jfkreloaded.com/start/ I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto IV, Drunk Over the Bridge With the

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-29 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life insurance we had didn't cover parachute-related deaths and I vaguely recall it didn't cover combat deaths. Kinda serious omissions, from the soldier's point of view. If I'm

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 25 Nov 2004 at 10:10, Tyler Durden wrote: More to the point is that a long term period of chaos and turbulence causes the locals to be willing to open the door to the like of the Taliban, Those who used to mindlessly chant commie propaganda now mindlessly chant islamist propaganda.

US-centrism

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:16, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can we please get out of the regional fixation? The cypherpunks list isn't about the US, US pissant wars, and similiar boring backwater shit. Response 1: When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold. Response 2: The cpunks list isn't US-centric,

Re: Computerized war serves citizens virtual baloney

2004-11-29 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 1:31 PM -0800 11/28/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: How about a 'net-connected atlatl? I figured you guys would get a kick out of both the technology, and other applications thereof, :-), and the whining commentary would just be gravy... As it were. Cheers, RAH -- - R. A.

Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney

2004-11-29 Thread R.A. Hettinga
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/story/5849296p-5765085c.html Computerized outdoors idea serves users virtual baloney (Published: November 28, 2004) A Texas businessman wants to rig a robotic, high-power rifle to a Webcam in a game park so people can punch buttons and hunt'' from the comfort of

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Thompson
--- James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- James A. Donald: Seems to me that permanent civil war in Iraq provides Americans with the same benefits as democracy in Iraq, though considerably more reliably. Steve Thompson You might be more accurate to say that a permanent

RE: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. This is why there are carnivore boxen aplenty. The knurls on the police-state knob are getting worn, it is

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-29 Thread Jim Dixon
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: When the Taliban came in to power, they seemed to offer some stability, albeit at a price. And I'd bet a lot of people in the shoes of the Afghanis would have been willing to pay that price. An afghani is a unit of currency, worth much less than a

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Steve Furlong
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 21:44, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 27 Nov 2004 at 6:43, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can always be defeated by cranking up the police state a notch. You assume the police state is competent, technically skilled,

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Furlong wrote... I see that an irrevocable payment system, used by itself, is ripe for fraud, more so if it's anonymous. But why wouldn't a mature system make use of trusted intermediaries? The vendors register with the intermedi- ary *, who takes some pains to verify their identity,

RE: Oswald

2004-11-29 Thread Tyler Durden
Oswald saved the world from nuclear conflict, thank the gods he offed the sex drug crazed toothy one as soon as he (et al :-) did. I dunno...seems like the man had his priorities straight, at leastimagine bonin Marilyn Monroe high to the gills on painkillers and speed...come ON, gotta

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

2004-11-29 Thread Justin
On 2004-11-27T06:36:24-0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 09:13 AM 11/27/04 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/0026222 Posted by: michael, on 2004-11-27 05:05:00 low-cost solution: '[I]incorporate a layer of metal foil into the cover of the

Re: Tin Foil Passports?

2004-11-29 Thread R.A. Hettinga
At 8:02 PM + 11/29/04, Justin wrote: There has always been an uneducated class. Spoken like a true elitist. The sins of compulsary government education are not necessarily the sins of education in general... http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?control=1425# and, today...