[OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

resistance. There was more mass support for socialism in other countries, but no socialist revolutions in those countries, nor any danger of such revolt. There were socialist coups, and conspiratorial seizures of power by socialists in other countries. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Hollywood Hackers

. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /q4tip27WhKCNEPO0JVoN0d2y8NqKSNyWSZ2yo8T 2mpKzWKpHGt5yFiUzlZZD//qHoWgv8n1ZFJzoJ2l9

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

that capability. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ElmZA5NX6jAmhPu1EDT8Zl7D+IeQTSI/z1oo4lSn 2qoSIC6KSr2LFLWyxZEETG/27dEy3yOWEnRtXzHy9

Re: Hollywood Hackers

for approving content, rather than to assume such a system already exists. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG n2qkcxSdV2kJT9y6SyQ2iP7hz+Loj0n1HsBec+jV 2F6qbHlOzuO9Od/r5ZvGa0vDhRSmH/+EjFcQI8Wtc

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

-- 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict what applications you run. James A. Donald: They deny that intent, but physically they have that capability. On 31 Jul 2002 at 16:10, Nicko van Someren wrote: And all

Re: Hollywood Hackers

-- James A. Donald: The plan, already implemented, is to flood file sharing systems with bogus files or broken files. The solution, not yet implemented, is to attach digital signatures to files, and have the file sharing software recognize certain signatures as good or bad. Eugen

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

to Joe in order to play Peter's software or content.. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FQhKMpDHys7gyFWenHCK9p7+Xfh1DwpaqGKcztxk 20jFdJDiigV/b1fmHBudici59omqc/Ze0zXBVvQLk

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

in place of existing IP law. What I fear is that instead legislation and technology will each reinforce the other. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG R66NXPp5xZNDYn98jcVqH5q22ikRRFR3evv5xfwF 2PNka92tYm9+/iBKaR+IcOoDA8BwXZlwcPD18Ogw8

TCPA

anticircumvention laws and ever growing patent and copyright silliness, it seems a dangerously powerful addition to law. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6FaJusAR8fMsVvaFm9l3vbuyiQwio/YrBFLpyT6c 2Db/Fk0MeNi3mjdoDTo2IGzHeelYts0/xqiEjUFmA

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Alf9R2ZVGqWkLhwWX2H6TBqHOunrj2Fbxy+U0ORV 2uPGI4gMDt1fTQkV1820PO3xWmAWPiaS0DqrbmobN

RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

smoke, or the time runs out, whichever happens first, Paul has to buy new software. If prices are lowered accordingly, this might be acceptable. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4Mqj1ia6DD0EYpdLMEd7al35eTYefnvhcFesBlMz

Re: Other uses of TCPA

other fashion. There are quite a few extremely evil uses it would be good for, but they would only be feasible if enforced by legislation -- otherwise people would turn the chip off, or tear it out. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Hzs0OpVc

Re: Other uses of TCPA

-- James Donald writes: I can only see one application for voluntary TCPA, and that is the application it was designed to perform: Make it possible run software or content which is encrypted so that it will only run on one computer for one time period. On 3 Aug 2002 at 20:10

Re: TCPA/Palladium -- likely future implications

and taking hold of their work, they still may be unable to do it for technical reasons. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG D7ZUyyAS+7CybaH0GT3tHg1AkzcF/LVYQwXbtqgP 2HBjGwLqIOW1MEoFDnzCH6heRfW1MNGv1jXMIvtwb

Re: TCPA and Open Source

on the internet, and then later only certain operating systems are permitted on the internet, and then later the required operating system upgrades the TPM software so that only authorized operating systems boot at all. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG H

Re: trade-offs of secure programming with Palladium (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)

more pithily, if it really is going to be voluntary, it really is not going to give hollywood what they want. If really gives hollywood what they want, it is really going to have to be forced down people's throats. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Spam blocklists?

sending huge amounts of mail to unmonitored mailboxes, which will make spamming unprofitable. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG DIY+MmmrLQhijrJvvUennc4PKuW3ydzF1s8Phfvc 2thHL52WvLYLBuy1gMvfbs8U1toNuUIIWvvhnySCw

Re: TCPA not virtualizable during ownership change

the system is a designed in feature. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JjoH8U8qZ1eOdT/yGjfV7Xz9andBZPeYWaOLC+NP 2/OJG2MZSnAqcyuvUsNZTsQAcffGGST6LJ7e9vFbK

Re: onsite service on Sealand

to proceed with competent and effectual solutions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HcJC+F+nHfocXB5cx8e5xihyUc8zIRgYkHIA9rSH 2z7Vmfw8yreIdTJ88bYCphFaZUo4LPvcMHFy7EKYb

Re: S/MIME in Outlook -- fucked.

James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2S6sg825yJSZ69s23KyOvpaHYYQYbgoRuPl2j1JZ 24hZwF+YmQMFl2hK8LOkiesmNrg+xJ0ZdA1qPUzQU

Re: Saturday meeting/BBQ/party--last minute comments

recall the house in the cartoon Courage, the cowardly dog? Now imagine that same house, and rotate the landscape seventy degrees so that the house is stapled to the side of a mountain and the road dug into the side of a mountain. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

RE: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

. If trusted computing means that certain special people have ring -1 access to my computer, and I do not, and those certain special people are people I do not trust ... --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9qfOgx4DuD39ZV1os+Mk6SzsJp3A6f8e/S94djUj

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

-- James A. Donald Increasingly however, we see smartcard interfaces sold for PCs. What for, I wonder? On 24 Sep 2002 at 1:41, Bill Stewart wrote: I'm not convinced that the number of people selling them is closely related to the number of people buying; this could be another

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zA52k2I/yOV3JjdMnqwOFMq4Io7yMmdhp7IVzbUE 48lR0zT5ZoHjtDYfcW0+xmlo00w3DS04U9nsJblFq

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

-- Neil Johnson wrote: Hey don't forget you can still buy a smart card reader from that most cypherpunkish of babes BRITNEY SPEARS ! Only $30 ! https://www.visiblevisitors.com/mltest/order_form.asp James A. Donald: A previous poster suggested that the smart card industry

What good are smartcard readers for PCs

James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG UZr0jvF3hsrDzZ/URGjiGNl8cw1jEQbsuJt2Vxm6 4P3p+Y/yI2jWvQGZ0O5aHI//rcxIXncZJqgHA4VdK

Re: smartcards

-- James A. Donald: When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for most end users we will have to stash all unused tokens inside smartcards. However, because of the critical mass problem, initial deployment for small payments cannot rely on such means, though initial

Re: smartcards

capabilities, this vision would become more useful. I think combining the palm pilot with the cell phone is more feasible once we develop a good voice controlled computer, after the fashion of startrek, which may be some time off. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

What email encryption is actually in use?

forth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OmUO5eB/pLnuFIgCU2splCvKO4x0U1Ik31pVFPaU 49B5UrVKc5ETzoxGcfl+q9ltoh61l4ncSyE+R5h6P

What email encryption is actually in use?

-- James A. Donald: We have tools to construct any certificates we damn well please, Joseph Ashwood: The same applies everywhere, in fact in your beloved Kong, the situation is worse because the identities can't be managed. You are unfamiliar with Kong. The situation is better

Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood:

-- James A. Donald: (ranting on the user hostility of PGP) Presumably the theory underlying this brilliant design decision was that in the bad old days, a [signed clear text file signed] under unix would not verify under windows because of trivial differences such as the fact

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

-- James A. Donald: I intended to sign this using Network Associates command line pgp, [6.5.8]only to discover that pgp -sa file produced unintellible gibberish, that could only be made sense of by pgp, so that no one would be able to read it without first checking my signature

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

-- James A. Donald: I intended to sign this using Network Associates command line pgp, [6.5.8]only to discover that pgp -sa file produced unintellible gibberish, that could only be made sense of by pgp, so that no one would be able to read it without first checking my signature

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3XIIjDu4swm4B8omsJgkQJcu1Op4/sNb2XkGf18B 4F9ZT3OQag+pZrW134bJdhLT3EeX1wOFqJzi1WJQ5

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

-- James A. Donald wrote: And PGP tells me signature not checked, key does not meet validity threshold On 2 Oct 2002 at 20:40, Dave Howe wrote: what version are you on? pgp 6.5.8 command line version. The actual problem was that there was no such key in my key ring, but error

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

use encryption. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Yek7NX953gkX+mwOcaRKW13pMWVzckXtQLHH7Oqt 45E6Pq+EKfccaEUOQLWtfPKtgE9yfk5u/o8MMv4HG

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

would be seeing a few more signed messages on this list, and those that appear, would actually be checked. Send an unnecessarily encrypted message to Tim and he wil probably threaten to shoot you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: What email encryption is actually in use?

-- James A. Donald wrote: If we had client side encryption that just works we would be seeing a few more signed messages on this list, and those that appear, would actually be checked. Send an unnecessarily encrypted message to Tim and he will probably threaten to shoot you. Ben

Independent News

is an unsinkable aircraft carrier covering the approaches to Australia. This had the effect of rolling back Muslim rule, something that Bin Laden has told us is a no-no. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YyO99qL0+xsoa0JPIh9Tbof+WkATG5PpWoiy6s5v

Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees

have. Napster was just great, worked with no fuss. Maybe the Napster clones are not as good, but my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that piracy is working better than ever. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w5c01d6

Re: internet radio - broadcast without incurring royalty fees

-- James A. Donald: my experience with downloading TV shows suggests that piracy is working better than ever. Major Variola This wasn't piracy, it was time-shifting. When the ads were deleted, it ceased to be time shifting. In any case, the point I intended to make was that Buffy

Re: Clarification of challenge to Joseph Ashwood:

-- Joseph Ashwood: So it's going to be broken by design. These are critical errors that will eliminate any semblance of security in your program. James A. Donald: I challenge you to fool my canonicalization algorithm by modifying a message to as to change the apparent

Re: New Protection for 802.11

strong demand for wifi security, compared to the almost complete absence of demand for email security. Why is it so? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IWe4JFeDeor04Pxb96ZsQ7xX+JAwxSs8HQfoAeG5 4rQX6tgLhAvAwLjF+SXlRswSmphBhw4cOXLe9Y4r5

RE: Did you *really* zeroize that key?

are they out of spec, but smoke will start coming out of hardware when the device drivers are recompiled. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kEh2eDIEzpFnafz1M2n+bEgPvpgJoMG5yeNBElma 4DJ2e1VU89ubCetOzWnz76JuUZBdhHHlg/JLf9Xju

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

have a ninety percent humbug and fraud rate. If his currency works well enough that one can buy addresses with it, this indicates a somewhat surprising level of success. I will check out his currency, and see what there is to see. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

. Problem is that most users will not understand cryptographic mixing, whereas they do understand a furnace. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 50wZVsHzWVCcQBwTOHonjfe6YktnJgFEe7CRcnOu 4qPIe4UB2pjTm4BTLInH60M2fku9pH217a/zFX8Jc

Re: Yodels, new anonymous e-currency

The Yodel does not have a web site where yodels can be converted into some other form of money, and other forms of money converted into Yodels. Instead it has an IIRC bot. Use of this bot is described at http://yodel.deep-ice.com/bankbot.html This means a command line interface, to do

Poker

be done. Does anyone know of a cheat proof algorithm? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG d4omBF08eFWhHQd6CDKVp4lJjfAS5GR56iMNcbAA 4XIes5IiykHpRT31kmyvZJTH0pPeUGMmBmORhd56d

Re: Fwd: [fc] list of papers accepted to FC'03

in fact been implemented. This has doubtless reduced enthusiasm for the theory. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG XmqKAbnJ3zxWonUYjLQTEauIWVuczMy3fiZXjszK 4BOXbFJHRJ+piLFRffQdmB84zd8OiOgRKr7wytw+r

RE: Where's Osama? (Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's next)

government from nothing. It took about five years for a plausibly German government to get its hands on the reins of power, and few more years for it to get rid of the institutions and apparatus of nazism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who's ne

of men in the process, they eventually gave up. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8rJK0TzKk1D62GWmAZ6vUvsi4CeZZEc5RL+nY/pG 4uNqMiU5DCnLXIoq1IVsaQobFOgZedKfb3qFuXYdl

RE: OPPOSE THE WAR! We are going to ruin Iraq to get the oil. Who 's ne

out my Chomsky web page: Chomsky lies http://www.jim.com/Chomsdis.htm --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 5U6Z7xMp4zTN7LYnZeRTOkIV+P8krIJAvwxGPmE3 4EkYXklGNdtijKPek7gdRsTyzwt1PLpWiSTSKliuv

Re: Photographer Arrested For Taking Pictures Of Vice President'S Hotel

as it pleases on or near the battlefield. Trouble is, with terrorism or guerrilla war, the battlefield is arguably everywhere. We need a declaration of victory that will push the battlefield to somewhere far away. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Extradition, Snatching,and the Danger of Traveling to Other Countries

invasion, but no more violent that it was before the Soviet invasion. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG k2IMyoZuE05D4VVX0FkW1hRQSzvJRDmLhlhwppHX 4+V+mECM7CjCVvLuL1WVl7q6w8saodTqAtyPLDY7v

Re: Verdict's in: Elcomsoft NOT GUILTY of criminal DMCA violations

On 17 Dec 2002 at 16:43, Steve Schear wrote: [I'm more convinced than ever that nullification figured into the verdict. If so, bravo for the jury. steve] Both the defense and the prosecution sought to make the facts clear and understandable to the jury. So the defense was betting on

Re: To Marcel Popescu On the Interventionist pseudo-Libs

and digress. To get back on point, if those who purport to be objectivists are also militant zionist interventionists, we should not take their supposed objectivist ideals too seriously. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

RE: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

that Disney, and lots of other groups own various small things makes me free. Voting does not make me free. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG qikI/Zvu3HswGlLSZkKaevQ3pU6OY28ELljC0Jbd 4cAxIRdESGs/ZREaCsKc0sn3T8IF21aiD8Wwoy3Os

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

on. By voting, you give the appearance of consent to what the government does to you. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xmBBW56MrvFmh7U6fPSMDbyYqa+PTDPhTlRLmwmD 4cHSTvSFFo32sjmnBGPqe0vLtp3CfQhXyVLccQaXm

Re: CRYPTO-GRAM, December 15, 2002

-- William Warren voting keeps you free..voting is our way of controlling and shaping the government. In http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Price_Theory/PThy_Chapter_19/PT hy_Chap_19.html David Friedman explains why democracy does not work. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

neurons or very small networks of neurons that we have not yet grasped. It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

-- James A. Donald: It is unsurprising that with current computing power we should be unable to emulate an ant, but inability to emulate a nematode is troubling. Eugen Leitl The crunch power is there. We're lacking a good enough model, and empirical data to feed that nonexisting model

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

for men. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG eeK7Lx/2xa/jMsqP3nKuxuq4g/yRmQtaTm/6pzMG 4WNfeWcezvgs7vrhiCTz68qRAGREiuHgqil78zrNJ

Re: Question on Mixmaster

. Download quicksilver, which is a wrapper around Mixmaster. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SOzCf2IlFaRP9bX1C0CNSyBqZtT2LHJw6xVNbuQg 42jEIkLSj0DRPCGqFJuNhf6tC8RHusnbDZzvJzdg5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

that the first line was a joke, would believe that cypherpunks really do go hunting black people. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG VZWpdVuMGJXwD+8kUsrx9HO13zFp6hwvFIsezAEw 414DzHlNJd+xhIFwTZwjjprhbh3YCmMrWCkNV4SM5

Re: Security cameras are getting smart -- and scary

. Of course no such discoveries are to be found in the material he cites, and his article appeared shortly after the massacres reported by the refugees were devastatingly confirmed by when such a massacre occurred on the border. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Petro's catch-22 incorrect (Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants)

suspect that the original Bin Laden is now a grease smear on some Afghan rocks, since the original Bin Laden was a Heideggerean, and would spit on any Marxist unless that Marxist was dying of thirst in the desert. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

workers, though they theoretically have the skills of those they are supposed to replace, do not actually have the skills. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kwfJU4cOdKICpZB82NV/SqXAxmw3TVvx9Mj+s73N 4qKieDYF+J3ghbatlXw9fpFG6hLJOwipHAEQ+/QjK

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

-- Harmon Seaver: Well, but only a strike of the executives and some technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: When they bring out the army against the strikers as well as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: Nope, not a chance. Most

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

-- Harmon Seaver: Well, but only a strike of the executives and some technicians. Not of the general workers. James A. Donald: When they bring out the army against the strikers as well as foreign scab labor, it is the workers. Harmon Seaver: Nope, not a chance. Most

Re: Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

-- On 23 Jan 2003 at 9:48, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:38:47AM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified specialists, you would not need the army. Of course you would. Look, once again, this isn't a normal

Re: Palm Pilot Handshake

, stating I'm not worthy, Sire.) This can be done without a palm pilot. Normally the flesh and blood Tyler Durden would reveal knowledge of information sent encrypted to the net Tyler Durden, or vice versa. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: CDR: US health care,a winner for Hillary in 04?

On 28 Jan 2003 at 19:46, Marc de Piolenc wrote: PS - the infant mortality statistics are bogus; they are a record-keeping artefact. Other countries (notably Sweden, to which the USA is always being compared) don't count a child as born until it has reached a certain age (three weeks in

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

that their scientists want to publish interesting research findings. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG vj9XFJICkQyBZHtzNbSmc+aK6sW4+dfeCW2jBsxp 4SNzRPDCqDY1oqcXuKPS207CG2oaSOsRAObNR7CKl

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

with the one overly optimistic estimate -- but the association is thin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 8af9YKuTzIfi6eW+kuKC5iSQr1ItRdPJmiiqa7oK 40um9WOOe1GxHnczql5Bykr/viCnjY0+DHauSAK8v

Re: the news from bush's speech...H-power

observed success in finding oil. Doomsayers predict failure to find oil from alleged oil reserves. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG C9e+ZUPyVGI4wbdMUNNKXWkQWaRXRTL/Nu+zv66g 4tjmevo5q83abI8gkC1baI1odUsQH0a8O86Tquf+1

RE: The Wimps of War

. The Germans and the French are not very keen on doing it at all, but realizing that position is unpopular, instead say they doubt the US will to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3cgDYFmaaqwoNleSbHMta+Lh1jBHPKeYH8milYX4

Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

now control. Then we could remake a small region of space time to have physical laws that we might find more convenient for some purposes. All of this, however, seems hard. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ok

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

So the US killed a lot of people there, so as to spread respect for freedom and democracy, and installed another dictator without elections, or any plan for elections The current leader was elected, not in accordance with western democratic norms that some people want to impose of Afghans

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

nations do not murder millions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG LS0PPszrbHPaadDyv9OpkI1d4Tym+mjxMyowVUMa 4dEsfuHBg8G0mXDn/U8FBak0jzB4WFSXGPt/n1Lt9

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

competence they cannot get well paid jobs elsewhere, so they are trapped. Secondly in high welfare state countries, by definition, wealth is politally distributed, leading to correspondingly high levels of organized group violence, as frequently illustrated in France. --digsig James

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and minoritie s

-- James A. Donald Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. On 21 Feb 2003 at 17:09, David Howe wrote: but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. Don't be silly. You have been reading too much Lenin. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

Rouge were rebuilding Cambodia, that they were comparable to the french resistance, that the stories of massacres had been repeatedly discovered to be false, and so on and so forth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG TF+XPgep9hB6HF8pL

Re: Ethnomathematics

that often something we think of as universal is merely universal to those who share our cultural and historical perspectives. Doubtless among Margaret Mead's happy fun loving socialist free love practicing Samoans, three plus three equalled four. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Who Owns the News

with most of their audience. Similarly recall the debate between Chagnon and his various opponents. The joke so often made about feminists is also very much applicable to those than in the America call themselves liberals. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Who Owns the News

. Not sure what station it was on. Terribly earnest public good stuff. Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that are openly pro Israel, such as Fox. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0

Re: Give cheese to france?

that the capitalists are like the state, a single entity with a single will, in which case it is obvious that simply replacing the will of the capitalists with the will of the people would be a vast improvement, rather than slavery terror and mass murder. --digsig James A. Donald

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

an anarchic society, where roads were not made according to any central plan, would produce. Then, there would be no problem with one particular turnpike operator turning away blacks, or turning away whites. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Give cheese to france?

-- 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

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

commie lie -- that the US aided the bigoted Taliban against the elightened communists who created a constitutional democracy where every man and every women have a vote, and universal education and health care were guaranteed, etc. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

of the reason why they drove out much of the Afghan population. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 53Wyhn5mvmbLsfCa8xeusjGGTFC0Ynkauohr4Uov 4nszIWnEYzkvcoHX0K/dqcsoCOCdvV1NwFasx3H/G

Re: When is iraq expected to fall.

will be a defeat. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pXZ8V7ZVSnZEJTIAOWVcd7RvKnGDxic8agd6TY6o 453h7nDyLl5QIvUPrVvYm1kEJJ/vJpfXSwkzd8wbm

Re: CDR: Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

that hostile lies about US allies who fought communists are usually accompanied by favorable lies about the Soviet Union and its servants. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2k9j5EK5Y4xNHQyHIAHgfLEiBFSDcgpeGajUQCOX 4+j

Re: Things are looking better all the time

resistance wil not be one of the problems that results. Of course the war is far from over yet, but once it is over, it will indeed be over -- as the war in Afghanistan, against people far tougher and more determined, is over. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh

Re: Things are looking better all the time

in a day. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG CEot0/Fv5upkisp2OkrlJ7HOSs54PKAvATPS9MMh 4yzGvQnbJbVyDJ/tpJS7TGIrVyZ/9wVT0lt6W2p9a

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

-- Ken Brown: But there certainly was some assistance from the US to the Taliban. US They didn't buy those 500 Stingers in Kmart James A. Donald: Commie lies. At the beginning of the recent Afghan war the US estimated the Taliban had at most fifty stingers. During the war

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

kissing US ass while simultaneously kissing terrorist ass. It is embarrassing to attack someone who loudly proclaims I am on your side, even if one is inclined to doubt the sincerity of these loud proclamations. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Things are looking better all the time

-- Harmon Seaver: Not inside the cities they can't, not without tons of collateral damage, which will crucify Dubbya and Blair. James A. Donald: No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an intact Iraq) least of all the protestors, care how many Iraqis get killed. Who

Re: Things are looking better all the time

-- James A. Donald: If the US trys to avoid civilian casualties, this is not out of fear and weakness. Indeed, when we observe the recent past, it seems that it is failure to commit sufficient murder that provokes these attacks. On 24 Mar 2003 at 17:41, Eugen Leitl wrote

Re: Things are looking better all the time

James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SKftD3iO5jEjgK/DD7/KHtmYPRg6AxRM6VoCCMVd 4EwomPyztP4ywyl/PXmpq8ssvNutxjj3lMHHPmEb2

Re: Things are looking better all the time

universities, amongst the very best people, and the most prestigious publications, with glowing praise. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3ugzZZGkxDJMCzgCZSym0TNHDvLJtovGA0GdGNLC 4eZu4NvyASZJK56sH1lBkFMLUv6ARCl1r7M/m6epB

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