Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show!

2003-03-22 Thread Tyler Durden
]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show! Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:22:02 -0500 Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "As the Iraqis themselves said, and I paraphrase (because the quote is not > handy): &qu

"Asan Akbar"

2003-03-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Just before the hype machine moves into full gear here, is there any way to determine if this kid's name was really Asan Akbar? I consider it possible (though not likely) that he's name is "Joe Anderson" or something equally obviously non-Muslim. Of course, they're already describing him as havi

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-24 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... "perhaps the most effectual thing the US could do to prevent future random terror attacks is to round up one hundred million. innocents and slaughter the lot. Everyone loved the commies for doing that, so if the US wants to be loved, perhaps it needs to do the same." What t

Re: Budget deficits don't matter when the Rapture is coming

2003-03-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "the Jews will be destroyed and sent to Hell, and then JC will rise out of Babylon or Yonkers or someplace and will reign as King for 1000 years, at which point the Earth will be destroyed." Not exactly. At the last minute (ie, before Armageddon wrecks just about everything),

Most Americans believe Hussein the mastermind behind 9/11

2003-03-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Pretty amusing. Beyond Doublethink, as not even the US government claims this... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=127&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucru/20030320/cm_ucru/the_moron_majority -TD _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail

RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Has anyone ever heard of that carbon filament "soft bomb" that's designed to spread wispy carbon filaments over power plants? I've even seen a photo of the aftermath of one of these things... From: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "'Sarad AV'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sub

I did my part in the war effort...

2003-03-26 Thread Tyler Durden
This is sure to piss off true-believing, knee-jerk subscribing feds on our list (though I consider it possible that some such feds are as pissed off as many of us right now)... Landed in an airport this afternoon, and had to take a piss. Went into a stall and there was some debris around the to

US vs God?

2003-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Actually, it's fun to play the Biblical prophecy game...remember it can be played from either side! For instance... Rev 13:3 "And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;" The US and economy a

Re:

2003-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Wow Colonel Flagg...glad to know you might post on this subject at some point in the future. I'll certainly be waiting... -TD From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:29:42 -0800 >>Tim May wrote.

RE: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread Tyler Durden
If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far? --Lucky Well, one idea worth considering is that these "terrorists" are not merely mindless killing machines. Their goal (at least as bin Laden has stated it) is to get the US out of the middle east, and stop us from pretty muc

Re: S-Tools Stego makes an appearance in "Law and Order-SVU"

2003-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Gotta give this thought a great big ditto. I've believed for a long time now that the real reason the fedz have tried to scare the public from using heavy crypto is for precisely this reason...a lot can be determined merely by the presence and form of crypto used. I am in fact starting to wonder

PVC Tubes and NYC Demonstrators

2003-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
I haven't seen anyone mention this here, and wonder if it's being reported out there "West of the Hudson"... Apparently, a large traffic-stopping protest here in NYC was performed using a method I hadn't heard of before. Basically, the demonstrators handcuffed themselves together, but inside la

Re: Quote of the Day

2003-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Hey, as for Sharpton, I'll quote my brother: "I'm gonna vote for Sharpton just to piss YOU off!" -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Veil) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quote of the Day Date: 30 Mar 2003 16:14:14 - Steve Furlong wrote on March 28, 2003 at 17:56:41 -0500: > On Friday

Re: Skeletons at the gates

2003-03-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...I don't think Tim May gets the picture here. Think a few dozen PVC-groups consisting of 100 or more each, lying in the middle of, say, 5th avenue, or at the mouth of the midtown tunnel. Oh, and say it happens at 8:00AM on a Weekday. The result is a significant impact on the local economy (

Re: Silly wiccan, tricks are for kids!

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
a real tradition have inherited information developed thousands of years back. THAT'S authentic. The Mormons aren't. -TD From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: Silly wiccan, tricks are for kids!

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
"Or perhaps a little closer to home, check out Aleister Crowley, William Yeats, and all that crowd. Magick, alchemy, the craft of the wise, are all long practiced spiritual paths, certainly as valid, probably even more, than christianity." Well, I think there's an obvious disconnect on this issu

Re: Silly wiccan, tricks are for kids!

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
lay...some of them have no Euro-equivalent, but plenty of African). As for Blake & Co, you may be right, but I had thought that there was some supposed connection to very hidden Druidic roots. -TD From: Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
"You won't find a prohibition against using drugs, nor a requirement to persecute those who use them, anywhere in the Christian scriptures." Well...not exactly a prohibition, no, but close. As I remember there's something in either Peter or Paul mentioning "pharmakia", which is usually translat

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
"Hundreds of reporters are embedded with the soldiers on the ground. This makes it impossible for the US government to lie overmuch." Well it's not like a reporter can just jump onto a tank and ride wherever its going. Those embedded reporters are pre-selected and then sent with the troops that

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
. http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html -TD Inspiring... :) This was widely reported, in a major magazine article ("Atlantic Monthly," if I remember correctly) several years ago. It was also debunked. A "reactor" made with bits of smoke detectors (Am-241) and other

Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

2003-04-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Here's a story about a kid who basically made a duct-tape and tin foil reactor. Or almost. If it's a hoax, its a pretty good one. http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html -TD _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Ge

Re: Duct-tape and tin foil nukular reactor?

2003-04-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... You fucking cretin, _you_ are the one who cited the article and then wrote: I always get a distinct pleasure out of getting posters to go postal. This is close and I'm laughing my ass off! (Even better is to knock a poster out of his nym into a new one. Tim? How about 'cyphercr

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
'real', and that's when he starts yammering about being the 'real' Tyler Durden, whatever the hell that means.) Is peaceful change, etc... possible? I'd like to think so. However, there may come a point where "peaceful solution" is really just a lazy dream de

Re: Foreign adventures and economic imperialism

2003-04-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... To _this_ American, namely, me, it is apparent that Pax Americana is >the goal. By my definition of "rule," then, yes, America wants to rule >much of the world. No, they don't want to micromanage the details. But >they certainly want pliable governments that will not be _too_ >

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort?

2003-04-04 Thread Tyler Durden
"In modern times we have the names of Chinese people and cities changing as different methods of transcribing Chines to English gain favor -- Peking became Beijing, and Mao Tse Tung became Mao Zedong." Well, I disagree with the implications here. At least with Chinese names the new transliterat

Chomsky: "Iraq is a trial run"

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
What Chomsky says below is no suprise to most of those on this list, left/right/other. What IS of interest is that fact that a universal consensus seems to be emerging about the US's role in the world, and Chomsky articulates this sentiment. -TD (from www.zmag.org) IRAQ Noam Chomsky , Univer

Re: cooperative evil bit

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
It was so simple! They should have done this years ago... Reminds me of a friend that was on a standards commmittee. The committee generated a time requirement for some kind of satellite signal to be sent, and the requirement meant that light speed would be broken. In response, my friend wrote

'Peking' vs 'Beijing'

2003-04-03 Thread Tyler Durden
The other was an actual change in the name of the city, from "Northern Plains" to "Northern Capitol". This analysis doesn't explain everything. Modern Mandarin (which into its current form early in the 20th century), along with its linguistic northern predecessor has no sound such as "king", thou

Re: Superpowers distribute 750,000 shoulder-fired missiles, cook their owngooses

2003-08-09 Thread Tyler Durden
"Having sat on Pacific Coast Highway below the takeoff path of LAX jumbo jets, I can attest to the fact that they are literally just a few hundred feet above. Any van with a moonroof could trivially be set up to allow a pop shot at one of these 747s or 767s, leaving every couple of minutes.)" M

Re: The last detritus of the dot bombs

2003-08-10 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Way too many people think they can become the next Tony Robbins, that Neanderthal on late night t.v. selling motivational tapes" Well, I think a lot of people actually get some real $$$ doing this kind of stuff. And as an engineer/physicist by training, I can't help thinking t

Black folks.

2003-08-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Where did this "of color" nonsense get started?" Like a lot of PC terms...from guilt-ridden white liberals. Black folks never use this term, as far as I've ever heard. Likewise with "physically challenged". My black karate Sensei used to periodically laugh at the shame and em

Re: Blackout in NYC

2003-08-16 Thread Tyler Durden
Sarad wrote... For a moment think of all the iraqi's with power grids taken out now enjoying the 120+ farenhiet sun. A few hours of luxury was gone and it was breaking news in bbc. Although I appreciate the sentiment, your not really getting this. The timing was such that long-term impact was mi

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-09-02 Thread Tyler Durden
"Tim May is the perfect example why vigilante justice is generally considered to be a bad thing -- stupid assholes like Tim May spout off & take action based on paranoia instead of facts & principles of anarchy instead of justice and innocent parties get hurt." Well, on one hand taking justice into

Re: Using Virus/Worm comments to implicate others

2003-09-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Dave Howe wrote... Tim May wrote: > Reading about the Romanian student arrested today for allegedly > releasing one of the "Blaster" variants, I was struck by how easy it > would be to "bring a shitstorm down" on someone by inserting comments > into the virus code. oh joy - yet another way to joe

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Thonen wrote.. "On that same note, any weekend warrior who complains about being activated has no sympathy from me. Take the devils coin, be prepared to do his work also." Well, what if the Devil stole that $ from you in the first place? What level of subversion is appropriate in order t

Re: US soldiers in Iraq held against their will

2003-08-20 Thread Tyler Durden
hose bombs you're building don't actually work! Otherwise, keep on "bleeding the beast"... -TD From: "Thoenen, Peter CIV Sprint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: US soldiers in

Re: Q on associative binary operation

2003-08-28 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, kinda bizarre. There's also an ambiguity that prevents one from saying Q is associative. Is the table defined for both directions of *? In other words, is the table meant to imply values for both x*y (ie, left*top) as well as y*x (top*left)? For most objects x*y will not equal y*x (indeed

Re: "domestic terrorism", fat lazy amerikans & ducks

2003-08-26 Thread Tyler Durden
So... how many people does one have to terrorize in order to be a terrorist? PS: Anyone else getting tired of the term "terror"? Back when we all hated Osama bin Laden (remember that guy?) Osama was promoted from "Terrorist" to "terror mastermind" to "lord of terror" and so on. I'm sick of being

Re: Responding to orders which include a secrecy requirement

2003-08-31 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "If cops ask local neighborhood members to report any suspicious activity, the folks know that any benefits they gain from acting as informants tend to be a lot smaller than the danger of being beat up or even killed by the Mafia. When the cost of acting as an informant is zer

P2P Run out of Palestinian refugee camp

2003-08-27 Thread Tyler Durden
Interesting story. They're even streaming Terminator3 from their servers, which are also supposedly located in the refugee camp. http://msn.com.com/2100-1105_2-5063402.html?part=msn&subj=ns&tag=nl -TD PS: Saw a Muslim woman walking down Wall Street this morning, wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt!

How can you tell if your alarm company's...

2003-08-14 Thread Tyler Durden
..in cahoots with the "authorities"? In other words, lets say I leave my house for an extended period of time, and "they" tell the Alarm Monitoring company to shut down for a while so they can protect our freedoms. (I assume this is the way they would go about installing various things in one's

Re: CAPPS II -- The Latest "Red Scare"

2003-09-09 Thread Tyler Durden
"Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on "intelligence" like Usenet postings, mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar use of their services. And arrest follows." Serves you right. You and your constant criticisms of our divine and God-appointed protectors and

Re: [cdr] CAPPS-II: Green/Yellow or Red for freight?

2003-09-10 Thread Tyler Durden
So I guess his CAPS profile was green? -TD From: "J.A. Terranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cdr] CAPPS-II: Green/Yellow or Red for freight? Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:42:18 -0500 (CDT) http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Southwest/09/09/plane.stowaway/index.html Man shipped from

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

2003-09-12 Thread Tyler Durden
'll install a security camera in th' crapper to make sure no terrorists get me while I'm on the can. -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:10:24 +1200

Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law?

2003-09-11 Thread Tyler Durden
"The Fatherland Security troops are publicly embaressed and showing their brown shirts." Well, I'm not convinced you guys have detected the right intended message here. Basically, the real message may be: "it's impossible to protect Americans through local policies alone". In other words, there'

ABC Smuggles depleted Uranium into US...

2003-09-11 Thread Tyler Durden
I think that it's becomming clear that in order for Americans to feel safe US troops should morph into an international Police force. Next stop: Indonesia! -TD "The ABCNEWS suitcase containing the uranium was placed in a teak trunk along with other furniture put in a container in Jakarta, Indo

Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "The questions being asked of Jim may have to do with the Feds making the only prosecution they can make: that those passing on such threats via mailing lists are somehow guilty of some crime. This is just speculation on my part." I thought the Feds questions to Jim Choate had

Wall Street Protest

2003-09-15 Thread Tyler Durden
Walked by an interesting protest outside the stock exchange last week. In the "pen" in front were probably no more than 600 people attending a protest against the well-named "Patriot Act", and against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their policies. WHat was interesting was that, despite the relative

Re: Sex-diary writer expected to leave jail

2003-09-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Although something deep down in my gut would LIKE to push this guy into a trash compactor, it seems particularly odd that the courts/society view this writing as somehow equating with impending action. Actually, it's quite possible that these writings might be the very thing preventing him from

Re: Liquidating the Mud People

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Matt Gaylor wrote... "That's what free people have and that's one of the reason's I'd never move to Canada. Naturally my car got searched with a fine toothed comb, but I added I wouldn't be stupid enough to bring my pistol. I spent considerable effort cleaning my car of any stray ammo, thinking

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
"I no longer consider 9/11 a terrorist act." Fuck. I've been nearing a similar conclusion, though from an entirely different, uh, line of approach. Though I don't consider having quite crossed that line yet. I guess in the end we are responsible for the actions our government takes. And if we

Encrypted search?

2003-09-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Got a crypto question here. Let's say I push out a list I'd like to keep secret to some client machine. The user of that machine must enter some ID or other piece of information. I want the client machine to perform a search of that ID vs the contents of a list (again, resident locally on that

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-22 Thread Tyler Durden
ment. Is that so hard? Sarath. --- Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess in the end we are responsible for the > actions our government takes. > And if we remain ignorant and continue to benefit > (and do nothing to stop > it), then we are responsible, p

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Don't forget that in ancient greece the populace could vote any leader into exile. My brother believes we should be able to vote any publically elected official directly into jail, no questions asked. -TD From: Sarad AV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drunken US Troops K

Motorola Security Chips

2003-09-29 Thread Tyler Durden
These seem to be actual chips. Anyone know of companies selling Crypto apps for Network processors? If so, which is deemed more secure by Cypherpunks...software apps on network processors or outboard chips? (Am I correct in assuming that a crypto app on a network processor is not any easier to

Re: Wipe your Lamo notes now

2003-09-30 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "If it's a felony for _me_ to say "Sources tell me that Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, has been a CIA covert operative since 1980," it is a felony for Robert Novak to do so." Hum. Particularly in the era of the Internet and blogs. Even if "The Press" shou

Re: On suing Marcy Hamilton for being a bimbo

2003-10-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... "So don't use their tools. Don't abuse the law against the maker of a tool which can be used improperly. It is simply wrong to blame a gun or drill or code maker because some evildoer (virus propogator) used the tool against you." Well, although I am willing to agree that a gia

2 Quantum Crypto Companies partner

2003-10-13 Thread Tyler Durden
This makes 3 companies I know of working on Quantum Cryptography for key distribution. There must be a few more... http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=41735 -TD _ Instant message during games with MSN

Re: [IP] FCC readies rule to block Internet piracy (fwd from dave@farber.net)

2003-10-20 Thread Tyler Durden
The federal government is preparing for the first time to require that personal computers and other consumer electronics devices contain technology to help block Internet piracy of digital entertainment. Just wait until MS unleashes a brood of lobbyists when nobody buys the new Palladium-ed operat

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-25 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "I predict we'll soon be seeing a new thought control campaign with this theme, that "if you use encryption, you help the terrorists win."" Well, I'm dubious. Right now I'm thinking their strategy has been to pull encryption down off of the social radar, and that's worked bette

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
rorists win" Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:27:00 -0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote: >> secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as >> effectively 'unbreakable' encryption? Reglar folks always belie

"If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-27 Thread Tyler Durden
t; Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:37:47 -0600 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 October 2003 04:27 pm, Tyler Durden wrote: > Tim May wrote... > > secure (every ask anyone if they believed there was such a thing as > effectively 'unbreakable' encryption

Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-28 Thread Tyler Durden
housands of $$$ while we spend pennies. Eventually you gotta figure that'll eat into the invasionary funds, no? (Or am I being naive?) -TD From: Neil Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "If you use encryption, you help the terrorists win" Date: Mon,

Re: "If you DON'T use encryption, you help the terrorists win"

2003-10-30 Thread Tyler Durden
the terrorists" and you may have wildfire. That's the goal: wildfire. You're problem is that you don't realize that crypto is no longer a technological issue now. It's now a social and marketing one. The fact that "Tyler Durden" actually has little of major insight

Disguising the Key length (Was...Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys)

2003-11-10 Thread Tyler Durden
"I think that's the source as well - when the most recent of the TWINKLE and TWIRL papers came out, Lucky Green was talking about whether it was still safe to use 1024-bit keys, and $1B for 1 key/day is similar to Shamir & Tromer's estimate of ( http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~tromer/p

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Doesn't make sense. Votes are already bought and sold, but there's so many middle men taking their cuts in the form of military bases or whatnot that the enduser barely gets some. -TD From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworl

Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
OK...let's say I receive a photo that I expected to contain stegoed information on it, but then find that there's nothing I can retrieve using the likely methods or software. Is it possible to determine that the photo 'originally' (ie, when it was sent to me) contained stegoed information, but

RE: Got.net and its narcing out of its customers

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "I consider Don Frederickson despicable, and stupid. To not bother before understanding the context of the thread and say, basically, "Yes, we have narced out this customer to law enforcement, but they are just watching" is reprehensible." Well, I saw the got.net quote befo

Anti-globalization

2003-12-08 Thread Tyler Durden
The anti-globalization protests are a good example of something misunderstood by Libertarian old-farts. On some levels, these protests have a libertarian character...anti-globalization is not really about eliminating free trade per se, but eliminating "free trade", which is really just the sele

Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
etely used to being passive cogs in a big, fat machine-state. So in a sense, it's gone way beyond 'repression'...no need for that rat-cage around our heads anymore. -Tyler Durden From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "This is silly, socialist nonsense. I know some of the book buyers at the "Borders" store in Santa Cruz (the very one that the "anti-bigness" lefties tried to ban from opening in Santa Cruz). Not only do they have a "local authors" section which is larger than the similar secti

Tim May is Free!

2003-12-10 Thread Tyler Durden
"I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I'm disgusted. Unfortunately these days the latter Tim isn't letting the former Tim near the keyboard very often." I dunno...sometimes his ra

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
tilizing their talent-on-the-floor has helped them do so well here in the US. (Though these mega-Barnes-and-Nobles may have dented their numbers in the last few years...) -TD From: ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Matel Stalinist? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:56:31

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed?

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
oto was de-stegoed. If the NSA is your man-in-the-middle, you might not be able to tell. Any of you TLA lurkers wanna come in on a remailer and set me straight? -TD From: "A.Melon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? Date: Wed,

Re: Has this photo been de-stegoed? (and Clouds)

2003-12-11 Thread Tyler Durden
probably subpoena-proof. >> >> We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to the extent they're >> still around). >> ... > >alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. One could count some fraction of all the *.binaries.* on usenet as anonymous comm

RE: Stego worm

2003-12-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Mr Shaddack... That's some interesting thinking there. The interesting thing is that no one might ever even notice the presence of this benevolent worm. It could go pretty much unchecked for a while. As for Variola's comment, you might be right. I just assumed there's some kind of relationship

Re: Is Matel Stalinist?

2003-12-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Not only does it not make sense, but clearly this would cause pileups at _some_ stores (too much Spam) and shortages at _other_ stores (still not enough Spam, even with the latest "send more Spam to all stores" order. The fact that neither shortages nor pileups (that I can see

Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

2003-12-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Spread the word. The adminstration got desparate. In a few weeks they'll announce this isn't the real Saddam, but that rounding up all of the clones is necessary progress in the fight to get the real Saddam. -TD _ Get holiday tips

Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles

2003-12-15 Thread Tyler Durden
. -TD From: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Don't worry...it's just one of Saddam's doubles Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:33:53 +0100 (CET) On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Spread the wo

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
"Later today, a source close to the interrogation said that Saddam would be subjected to stress and sleep deprivation. Basically, teams of interrogators will ask questions over and over again, and no one will get any rest until answers are provided." At least here in NYC local news, it's common to

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-17 Thread Tyler Durden
y're just going to get angrier. Look for bin Laden to grow in status until he's just a notch or two below Mohammed. Look then for more bombings and 9/11s here in the US. That Saddam was a cruel, butchering dictator will soon be nearly irrelevant. -Tyler Durden From: Anatoly Vorobe

Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention?

2003-12-18 Thread Tyler Durden
] Subject: Re: U.S. in violation of Geneva convention? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:08:46 +0200 On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:06:55PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > A thread that started out quasi-interesting has descended into > non-Cypherpunk levels of triviality. I thought it was trivial all along. &

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Uh...I assume you're quoting somebody here? The last point is actually a very good one, but getting there requires hacking through gobbledeegook. What's this "all businessmen" silliness? And using vpns WITHIN a company? As an employee of a major Wall Street firm, I can tell you that's completel

RE: The killer app for encryption

2003-12-20 Thread Tyler Durden
"I'm not certain, but I think there are some MS certified modems which have a generalized A/D-D/A capability sufficient to handle voice." They do. And I'm not so sure POTS is going to be where things will be the most interesting...cable modem telephony might be where things get interesting. As

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-23 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... "They were supposedly supporters of the NLF, which they well knew was a North Vietnamese sock puppet, and thus a KGB sock puppet. " Uh...huh? You really get a lot of things mixed up. If you think Ho Chi Minh was a KGB sockpuppet then you really don't know anything about Vie

Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam.

2003-12-23 Thread Tyler Durden
right." Forget it. Stop saying this crap and use that brain. 9/11 sucked enough in this town...we don't need another. -TD From: "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I am anti war. You stupid evil scum are pro Saddam. Date: Tue,

Saddam is evil, therefore we have the right to feed him to our pigs

2003-12-24 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... "There is ample evidence that the 'anti war' crowd is largely pro Saddam" This is a critical point, and it's one you fail to recognize over and over again. Let me tell you a little story. There's this guy that lives down the block...I think he may be a Satanist or somethin

Re: I am anti war. You lot support Saddam

2003-12-24 Thread Tyler Durden
"And I don't usually get quite this MAD, but such ignorance, such blindness, is the reason we are in this mess. " I'm not so sure Mr Donald is ignorant OR blind. He seems to be something I've never seen in real life before: Completely aligned with US foreign policy, past/present/future. I'm st

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
"As long as truth is no defense against "hate speech," and "hate speech" includes things which clearly don't involve anyone hating anyone else, "hate speech" is simply a code phrase for suppressing free expression." At worst. At best it's going to boil down to some local enforcement shitheel ta

James Donald Skeetshoot...

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
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Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Tyler Durden
"All symbols that are related to Nazism. One of the reasons (if not the reason) why they banned "Wolfenstein 3D"." Interesting. So even if the swatsika is protrayed as a bad thing (to the point of practically being a bullseye) it's banned. So...can you have swastikas in Textbooks? Perhaps 100 yea

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-29 Thread Tyler Durden
MK wrote... I find it always interesting how people (especially from the US) seem to have prefabricated ideas about how other countries are, but are at the same time so much in denial about their own society that it is just frightening. Well, that's true. It's a point I've made on Cypherpunks many

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-29 Thread Tyler Durden
;d note that some of the most outspoken "Anti semites" in this category happen to be Jewish: Bobby Fisher, Noam Chomsky, Michael Albert and others. From: Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Singers jailed for lyrics Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:1

Vengeance Libertarianism and Hot Black Chicks

2003-12-31 Thread Tyler Durden
"Nowhere in Tim's spew is the recognition that the largest beneficiaries of government favoritism are corporations and wealthy individuals like himself, especially those associated with the greeders of the defense industry, rather the national security state." Yes...that's the thing I don't fully g

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

2003-12-31 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... "You just issued the "sovereignty" rationalization for Saddam's crimes," Hey...I just heard that a country that's even MORE free than the US has decided to liberate us from our oppressors in Washington DC. Don't stand on your balcony to cheer for them as they roll through y

Re: Vengeance Libertarianism and Hot Black Chicks

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
al capital to take the kinds of risks implicit in what you're talking about. "The meme which Tyler Durden and John Young--not surprising to me that both are Manhattanites, representing the East Coast view of capitalism--are popularizing is the one that says that what made comp

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Because the Jews and negroes have demanded that all students be taught stuff they obviously will never use. Most inner city mutants should be taught practical skills, not abstract stuff their previous education has been bereft of." Well, I don't know who's responsible, but te

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... First, please stop including the full text of the message you are replying to. Learn to use an editor, whether you ultimately top-post or bottom-post to edited fragments. I actually do this for a reason. If I'm not doing a line-by-line response (or sometimes even if I am), I

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Well I be darned if Mr May hasn't inspired a major burst of eloquence, between this response and Mr Young's. As for this comment: "Schools don't educate, but merely serve as a filter for employers to locate those individuals who aren't going to make trouble at the factory." At best. In the inner

Education Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
IL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 08:34:03 -0800 At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: >"Stay In School!" > >In other words, schools keep the crime rates down, as is a well-known >statistic. They are basically storage

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