Re: Why we must stay silent no longer

2002-07-10 Thread cubic-dog
The overall message isn't all that bad, but the body of the document is so replete with errors, misrepresentations and misconveyance as to be unreadable. I almost gave up on it at the line, More than 75 per cent of Americans would boycott stores selling goods produced in sweatshops. This

Re: Another restriction on technology - cell and cordless scanning now a felony

2002-07-18 Thread cubic-dog
How is this legal? How is it legal to outlaw reception of radio transmissions under the FCC act of 1934? I have never understood this. I keep expecting at some point, someone will somehow come up with a good reason to take a monitoring claim to the US supreme court and get all these laws

Re: sleep deprivation was Re: Torture done correctly is a terminal process

2002-11-25 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Steve Mynott wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Adam Shostack wrote: The Russians reputedly used sensory deprivation as a means of convincing western spies to talk. 24 to 48 hours in a tank broke nearly anyone. Noone has mentioned sleep deprivation which is supposed to

RE: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread cubic-dog
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Blanc wrote: A sad, disturbing prospect to contemplate. Someone on another list remarked that it might become necessary for those in Europe to do some internet-type rescuing of the American people. H. snip Don't count

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread cubic-dog
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: And so on. He talks the talk, but he and his buddies in HomeSec are establishing a national police force, states rights be damned. He's proof that you can fool just about everyone simultaneously - the NRA

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-12 Thread cubic-dog
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Bill Frantz wrote: At 10:44 AM -0800 2/11/03, Tim May wrote: But in postmodern America mentioning guns is simply NOT DONE. Not even on the Fox Network, a more rightward network than the others. (Being right no longer means mentioning guns, as Ashcroft and Cheney and the

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-13 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, jet wrote: At 16:18 -0500 2003/02/12, cubic-dog wrote: The NRA is openly hostile towards the embarrasing 2nd Amendment. The NRA is mostly all about allowing the weathly wingshooters to be the last to fall. The rest of us, like the armed citizens, get bartered off

Re: Needed a WiFi FidoNet

2003-09-02 Thread Cubic Dog
Steve Schear wrote: It would seems that the means may soon be at hand for using WiFi, or WiFi-like, equipment to create ad hoc, meshed, non-commercial networks. The means are at hand, have been at hand for quite a few years in the form of packet radio, and now of course, as you say, wi-fi. Folks

Re: Panther's FileVault can damage data

2003-11-10 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, petard wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:55:08AM -0800, Tim May wrote: It's astounding to me that that Apple failed to do basic QC on its major new release. The problem with the Firewire 800 drives using the Oxford 922 chips is inexcusable. Did Apple never bother

Re: e voting

2003-11-24 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded. Great!

Re: Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

2003-12-10 Thread cubic-dog
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote: SNIP In austin powers, they make the spy sound sixties by depicting him as expecting the victory of the Soviet Union, and perhaps rather favoring that outcome. If they had him quote Ayn Rand, he would not have sounded sixties. When the mass

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-11 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:27AM +0100, edo wrote: With the USA becoming the world's most totalitarian state in disguise... That's a pretty silly thing to say. Sure you don't want to educate

Re: Sunny Guantanamo (Re: Speaking of the Geneva convention)

2003-12-19 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jim Dixon wrote: The cost for politicians mandating such a policy would be equally high: they would be out of office and facing criminal charges themselves. No, I think they would be dead. At first opportunity. Or at least, I like to think so.

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

2003-12-19 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Michael Kalus wrote: I'll have a look at it. But I guess you also tell me that anything Michael Moore said in Bowling for Columbine is wrong too? Not wrong exactly, just completely biased, wrong headed, snuffling at the ass of anti-gun Hollywood so it would be hailed in

Re: Quartering soldiers

2004-01-14 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 12:48, Tim May wrote: On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:41 AM, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:23 PM 1/12/2004, Tim May wrote: But if I own a computer and I rent out accounts to others and the FBI comes to me and says We are putting a Carnivore

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:20, bgt wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:48, cubic-dog wrote: in force, because, we finally get slave, indentured servants who will either take the 90 cents and hour or be deported. This kind of rhetoric is extremely