Re: Vengeance Libertarianism

2004-01-04 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:14:01PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:59:50PM -0500, Sunder wrote: If those are your beliefs, then by all means, set the first example, and go kill yourself. Better yet, sacrifice yourself to your goddess... By doing so, you'll also earn

Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:17:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saddam is being wrongly held by illegal invaders and occupiers. He should be immediately released or turned over to legitimate authorities, such as the international courts. Advocate for the release of Saddam Hussein, and the

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

2003-12-19 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:11:32AM -0500, Sunder wrote: That all depends on your definition of sovereign. After all, we put, or at least helped, that monster into power. Not really, no. So, while he was our puppet, He was never out puppet. he was the good guy, He was never the good guy,

Re: Release Saddam now

2003-12-19 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
[taken from private exchange back to the list with mutual agreement] Why? If there is no one with legitimate authority to try Saddam, then they cannot rightly hold him, and he must be released. What was different about Saddam's regime from the current US-installed regime, that

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

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: Nice, but the problem still remains: At this point it doesn't matter what he has done (or we say he has done). Of course it matters. This is not a punishment. Innocent until proofen guilty anyone? This is the basis for the

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

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
You wrote on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:19:43PM -0500: Jim Dixon wrote: I have gazed into the abyss and seen a man having his teeth checked and getting a haircut. :-| And how would you have felt to be the one who got your teeth checked and get a haircut with the whole world

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

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:12:55PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: This isn't a ski mask burglary. We KNOW Saddam ruled Iraq. We KNOW what crimes were committed. Simple syllogism. No we don't. We only know what the propaganda mills have told us. Twenty years ago it was a different story.

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

2003-12-17 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
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. The original point stands, and is valid. The Islamic world and, in particular, the Arabic

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-11 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:10:03PM -0600, J.A. Terranson 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 yourself on those other states in the world? It's not silly at all: look

Re: alt.anonymous.messages

2003-12-11 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:07:33PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- On 10 Dec 2003 at 18:22, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: alt.anonymous.messages has a healthy amount of traffic. Google Groups says they have a bit more than 200 messages in it on December 9, for example. I assume nearly all

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:26:22AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Unfortunately, if you want to read Tim, you have to read his evil twin Skippy, too. Living in *his* killfile, on the other hand, and if he actually uses it, can be useful. Try it, you'll like it. So what you're saying is that

Re: whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:56:24PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can somebody with a webspider crawl these documents, and put it up on the web? http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt All or nearly all of them are duplicates of same documents elsewhere in the directory tree; X/text/ and

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-10 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:20:20PM -0600, Declan McCullagh wrote: We have anonymity in Web browsing (more or less, thanks to Lance co). It's not NSA-proof, but it's probably subpoena-proof. We have anonymity in email thanks to remailers (to the extent they're still around). We have

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

2003-12-09 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:37:44AM +, Michael Shields wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Searching GG on don frederickson got tim is maybe more reliable than pasting this URL. For long urls, compress with tinuyurl.com

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

2003-12-09 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:57:00PM -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote: Then one of them claimed he had arranged to have my account yanked, for violation of the DMCA. He claimed he had sent copies of my criminal admissions to Got.net, to the RIAA, to law enforcement (shudder!), and so on. I

Re: (No Subject)

2003-12-09 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
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 yourself on those other states in the world? As far as I'm concerned, true anonymity in finacial

Re: Anti-globalization

2003-12-09 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:41:21PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: However, I don't see the strong support for Soviet or Maoist-style state control these days...these are vaguely romantic notions once in a while, but they don't have any deep