Constitution? What Constitution?

2005-09-11 Thread Eric Cordian
There's no civil liberty or Constitutional guarantee the President can't violate, as long as he mentions protecting the nation from terrorism while trying to justify it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html - A federal appeals court ruled

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Cordian
Peter Trei writes: Ryan Lackey needs to star in an Ayman al-Zawahri produced video, making short-lived gurgling and whistling noises. Making a fast buck off an illegal war of aggression is a far cry from running a secure data repository on an oil platform. Eric, I think you could

Re: [Ryan Lackey in Iraq] Wiring the War Zone

2005-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
RAW forwards... Wiring the War Zone It's a typical morning at Camp Anaconda, the giant US military base 50 miles north of Baghdad - light breeze, temperatures heading to 100 degrees, scattered mortar fire. Ryan Lackey is getting ready for today's assignment: installing a pair of

Paintball Terrorist Sentenced

2005-07-13 Thread Eric Cordian
I'd just like to say that the American troops who carried out Bush's illegal war in Iraq, which killled 100,000 Iraqi civilians, are war criminals, and I'd like to encourage all of AmeriKKKa's victims to capture them and bake them in pies, after forcing them to bark like dogs and poop

Re: The Nazification Of America (Show Me Your Papers - Day 1)

2005-07-02 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: We have literally allowed the Nazification to begin, and we've even welcomed it with eager open arms - all in the name of Fighting Terror. Crystal clear, pure unadulterated bullshit. In anticipation of the Guv'ment ID Needed for Everything/Can't Get ID Without Already

AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
This just in from CNN: [FBI agents have arrested a North Carolina man on suspicion of soliciting offers over the Internet to kill Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer. Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview is accused of offering $250,000 for the killing of Schiavo and another $50,000 for the the

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: If the judge's decision had been the opposite, there might be a bounty on his head for that, too. Somehow letting someone who has lived 15 years with a significant brain injury live out the rest of their normal life span just doesn't provoke people the same way dehydrating and

Re: AP For Starvation Judge

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: She is a corpse with a heartbeat. According to a cast of characters which include a euthanasia proponent, a lawyer at the forefront of dehydration advocacy for the brain-damaged, and a doctor who thinks its morally acceptable to starve Alzheimer's patients to death.

Re: The Register: Anonymity no protection for online libellers

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Mark Weston, technology law specialist at MAB Law, says the ruling was another link in the chain of judicial authority saying that you cannot be anonymous. If they can find out who you are, you aren't anonymous, you are confidential. Anonymous means no trail was created which might be

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Zooko writes: I am about to accept an exciting job that will preclude me from contributing to open source projects in the distributed file-system space. I will miss the Mnet project! Good luck without me! Is there a network currently running? At one time, I had 5 gig of Mnet

Re: Florida man faces bioweapon charge

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pastes: .. Steven Michael Ekberg, 22, had at least 83 castor beans and other byproducts consistent with the manufacture of ricin in his possession, the FBI said. .. They said they also found, in a cardboard box in Ekberg's room, glass vials containing white granules suspected of being

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: The fact is that those who did not vote effectively voted for Shrub. You are either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Inaction is not good enough. This would only be true if the President were elected by popular vote. In states where one candidate

Re: Why you keep losing to this idiot

2004-11-04 Thread Eric Cordian
I think this is the answer: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. Isn't that what Democracy is all about? The 51% simpletons imposing their will on the 49% non-simpletons? Proportional representation is our friend. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What

So Who Won?

2004-11-03 Thread Eric Cordian
So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Re: 100,000 Deaths in Iraq

2004-10-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: Well make 'em free even if we have to kill every last one of them, right Mr Donald? Most AmeriKKKans are too stupid to know that when their Poodle Press talks about airstrikes against insurgent safehouses, they really mean bombing civilian neighborhoods to scare the

FBI Raids Indymedia

2004-10-09 Thread Eric Cordian
According to http://www.indymedia.it/, the FBI seized Indymedia's servers from their host, Rackspace. Thursday Oct 7 2004, at 6 PM, FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US (Indymedia's provider with offices in the US and London) to remove physically two of our servers. The order was so

Recruiting Only Smart People

2004-09-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Google has an austere black on white billboard ad which simply reads. www.{first 10-digit prime found in the consecutive digits of e}.com People arriving solve another puzzle, and then can use the answer as a password for a website that greets them with the message... One thing we

Re: Gilmore case...Who can make laws?

2004-09-07 Thread Eric Cordian
TD writes: This describes the Government as creating secret laws. But, theoretically, only the congress and the Senate can create new laws, correct? The Executive branch has never been empowered to create laws, and I'm thinking these travel laws did not go through congress or the senate.

Re: Maths holy grail could bring disaster for internet

2004-09-07 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pastes: Tim Radford, science editor Tuesday September 7, 2004 The Guardian Mathematicians could be on the verge of solving two separate million dollar problems. If they are right - still a big if - and somebody really has cracked the so-called Riemann hypothesis, financial disaster

Re: Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden wrote: I propose that any 'Cypherpunk' can declare himself to be leader and make 'official statements' at any time. Of course, others can (and most probably will) choose to ignore the official statement, or even declare himself to be leader and 'officially' rescind that

Another John Young Sighting

2004-08-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Was that our John Young on the Daily Show, talking about being visited by FBI agents, with the title Anarchist under his name? -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Re: IRS may use First Data info for help in finding tax evaders

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH pasted: A federal judge has granted the Internal Revenue Service the right to seek information from First Data Corp. about certain credit-card transactions the company has processed. The IRS wants the information as part of its crackdown on tax evaders. Specifically, the IRS wants

US Seeks Bobby Fischer Extradition

2004-07-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Now that AmeriKKKa has successfully invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq in violation of international law, tortured with impunity, and mocked the rest of the world with its arrogance, what will it do for an encore? Settle old political scores, of course. So it comes as no surprise that the US

Re: UBL is George Washington

2004-07-07 Thread Eric Cordian
Sunder wrote: Right, WTC as a target doesn't make any strategic sense. Doesn't hitting a world financial center impede the funding of imperialism? If you apply the same standards the US uses to classify dual use infrastructure, and organizations linked to the enemy, I think the WTC is pretty

Respect for the Judiciary

2004-06-24 Thread Eric Cordian
I wonder if any such noises were heard during the Jim Bell trial. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0624041pump1.html - JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged

Citizen Units Must Give Names

2004-06-21 Thread Eric Cordian
One used to have the right to be known by any name one wished, as long as one did not do so for the purpose of committing fraud, or impersonating someone else. One certainly has an absolute right to refuse to speak to a government employee when accosted. So it is difficult to understand the

AOL and Ellison Kiss and Make Up

2004-06-18 Thread Eric Cordian
You may remember back in 2000, former literary icon turned copyright pest Harlan Ellison sued AOL because people were able to access a couple of his short stories in the Usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.e-book, prompting AOL to block the newsgroup on its servers. This earned Ellison a Big Brother

Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
I visited that 419eaters site, and I must say I have really mixed feelings about what the people are doing there. It's certainly unethical for Nigerians to try and make a living by bilking foreigners with elaborate schemes that promise vast riches in return for an advance fee. But Nigeria is a

Re: Reverse Scamming 419ers

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Cordian
David Howe writes: Presumably these are the Nigerians who have only $80 for food that month, yet somehow can still afford to bulkspam thousands of inboxes each day, process bank transactions and take part in international phone calls. Email is free. That is why we have a spam problem.

Re: Science: throttling computer viruses

2004-05-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola writes: Computer viruses and worms are an increasing problem throughout the world. By some estimates 2003 was the worst year yet: Viruses halted or hindered operations at numerous businesses and other organizations, disrupted cash-dispensing machines, I have a dual boot

Re: Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-30 Thread Eric Cordian
An Metet writes: Eric Cordian quotes: FBI Shill: Are we gonna exterminate the rat? Hale: I'm going to fight within the law and, but, ... if you wish to, ah, do anything, yourself, you can. You're such a liar. I don't know why I even bother to respond to you. You left off

Lowering the Bar for Threats

2004-04-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Federal Prosecutors say the conviction of Matthew Hale on charges including trying to have a federal judge killed sends an important message. But don't they always? The plot to kill the federal judge in this case consisted of a recorded conversation with an FBI Informant which went something

Re: Usenet Dead. Film at 11

2004-04-17 Thread Eric Cordian
RAH clipped: search tool that would scour electronic bulletin boards for millions of uncensored movies and photographs and serve up an all-you-can-eat taste of 'the Internet gone wild!' There used to be a service called Boypics, which thumbnailed and decoded all of Usenet's picture newsgroups

Re: US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-16 Thread Eric Cordian
Major Variola (ret) writes: What is bizarre about offering a contract? Get your filthy hands off my desert xor suffer for not doing same The US said the same (with a more temperate piece of real estate) to the UK, once. Apparently some need to be reminded that gentlemen don't occupy

US Brings Freedom of Expression to Iraq

2004-04-15 Thread Eric Cordian
For extra credit, try to find even one mainstream newspaper in AmeriKKKa's Rah Rah free press in which this international wireservice story is printed. See the Neocons argue that because the story only appears in the Arab press, it can't be true. Hey, it worked with Accused Jewish War Criminal

Re: On Needing Killing

2004-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Justin writes: With all due respect to the principle of freedom of speech and all that, I think that cypherpunks, and people in general, give far too little respect to words, as if words are a vague, unimportant, and remote link in the chain of causation of acts or failure-to-acts. I don't

Re: BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

2004-04-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Eugen Leitl pastes: File-sharing to bypass censorship By Tracey Logan BBC Go Digital presenter If there's material that everyone agrees is wicked, like child pornography, then it's possible to track it down and close it down Ross Anderson, Cambridge University I think the problem here

Re: Gmail as Blacknet (legally required forgetting)

2004-04-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden writes: What the law actually states is (basically) a defaulted loan must be forgiven after seven years. In other words, it is illegal to continue to attempt to collect on a loan, 7 years after the default. There are different levels of illegal. The most important one is the

The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
It's really getting to the point where judges don't even go through the motions of respecting the Constitution any more. All they have to do is recite the magic words that Society's Overwhelming Interest in protecting its children, police officers, kitty cats, or whatever, overrides whatever

Re: The Gilmore Dimissal

2004-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Stewart wrote: Marbury vs. Madison was an entertainingly kinky case, but the ability of judges to declare laws or executive actions Unconstitutional and therefore void is the main thing that's made the Bill of Rights effective (to the extent it has

Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May observes: Meanwhile, the black folk kept listening to Rev. Jess Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton tell them that they were owed reparations, that they were owed a series of entitlements. No suprise that a large fraction of negro teens subscribe to the view that reading be for whitey. In

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-28 Thread Eric Cordian
Michael writes: Being from Germany I would like to detest that statement. The German law clearly defines what is hate speech. It is not an easy task as you can see in a six month trial. It is the outcome of the trial which condemns Germany. THe length of the trial is an unimportant data

Re: Singers jailed for lyrics

2003-12-26 Thread Eric Cordian
A Berlin criminal court sentenced 38-year-old Michael Regener to 40 months in prison after a six-month trial that tested the boundaries of free expression in a nation with strict laws against hate speech. Of course, that should be a nation with strict laws against free speech. Crying Hate

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

2003-12-20 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: Well if there is no legitimate authority, then state of nature applies. Give him the justice that Mussolini and Ceasescu got. Hang him by his feet from a lamp post in central Baghdad for his victims to use as pinata Bear in mind that we could probably find plenty of

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

2003-12-18 Thread Eric Cordian
James A, Donald writes: I see: So when the US army is so unkind as to film Saddam acting submissive, this is a shocking violation of his human rights, and your bleeding heart feels for him deeply. But when, however, people fly a plainload of passengers into two tall buildings and murder

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

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Cordian
Natt writes: You're one-hundred percent correct. I saw that sack of shit Rumsfeld on a press conference this afternoon where he answered the specific question of does parading Saddam around violate the Geneva convention.? Rumsfeld also revealed that the CIA has taken over the Saddam

Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
As reported today on Slashdot, in linux kernels prior to 2.4.23, it is possible to map the kernel into user space with brk(), since apparently no one ever bothered to check that the argument passed was in the lower 3 gig of the address space. This is almost as funny as early linux kernels in

Re: Silly Linux Kernel Bug

2003-12-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Eric Tully writes: I've heard that argument before (last time I heard it was a problem with a PGP implementation) and I never understand what people are trying to prove when they say it. Let me simplify. I found it startling that a Redmond-level bug was in a mature open-source project, the

Airplane Comedy

2003-11-29 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku=a102 I'd love to see John Gilmore wear this on his next airline flight. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Jews Go Nuclear

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Cordian
So much for non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, right? http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,10613 - Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines Peter Beaumont in London and Conal Urquhart in Jerusalem Sunday October 12, 2003 The Observer Israeli and

What Really Happened to Whatreallyhappened.com

2003-10-27 Thread Eric Cordian
Everyone's favorite link farm of news stories which annoy Neocons, http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ disappeared suddenly and has been unavailable for 2 days now. Anyone know What Really Happened to it? Hopefully just a minor hardware problem. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:.

Re: base conversion

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Sarad AV writes: If we are to convert a k-bit integer n to a base b number,it takes us O(log n) if the base b is a power of 2. eg. converting (1)base to base 16 0001 ^^ 1F in hex. using a look up table. Is there an algorithm with time complexity O(log n) which

Democracy and Freedom

2003-09-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Freedom is the ability to conduct ones affairs, and pursue ones goals, without interference from government. Democracy is the right of the government to impose the will of 51% of your neighbors on you by force every time the neighbors don't like what you are doing. I am constantly surprised and

Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Cordian
News services are reporting that US Troops, who have been holding regular drunken parties at the Baghdad Zoo, have shot and killed the Zoo's rare Bengal tiger. It seems not only civilians are in danger from US Troops in the Occupied Iraqi Territories. In my opinion, the tiger was worth more than

Re: Another Cypherpunks Investigation?

2003-09-12 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim writes: My comment is that this Professor Rat, whose posts I have not seen for as long as lne.com has been my feed, is probably in some real difficulty. His posts are very direct threats, not veiled in any of the vague, political politicians ought to be given a fair trial and then

Attention Sheeple

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Saw this while browsing the Web this morning. I loved it. http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/donahue/donahue2.html - Want to See the World Implode by Jim Donahue I'd like to see some real hell unleashed in the upcoming year. I want a briefcase full of weaponized toxins to explode in front

Re: Cathedra and the Bizarre: Why Free Stuff is Good

2003-09-09 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Philosophizes: All of the interesting languages now generating a lot of buzz, and substantial communities, are essentially free. Or non-profit, or open source, or whatever one wishes to call them. Some examples: I believe Free to be very different than Open Source, particularly open

Re: Terror Reading

2003-09-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim wrote: Even the owner of my ISP is narcing me out. Read what he wrote recently to a Net.Nazi who wanted my speech limited: I'm sorry that Tim is being a bother again. He has a long history of being obnoxious and threatening. So far, he has not broken any laws. We have talked to the

Year in Jail for Web Links

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Cordian
An anarchist has been sentenced to a year in jail for having links to explosives information on his Web site. AmeriKKKa is further fucking the First Amendment by restricting whom he may associate with in the future, and what views he may espouse. As is usual in most criminal cases today, the

Re: Teen arrested at Logan for alleged sarcasm in his bag

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Sunder posts: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/214/metro/ Teen_arrested_at_Logan_for_alleged_bomb_threat_in_his_bag+.shtml According to the police report, the note, which was placed on top of clothes in a black gym bag read: ''[Expletive] you. Stay the [expletive] out of my bag you

President Terminator

2003-08-11 Thread Eric Cordian
In response to a question about whether she would favor a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, a Fox Fake News Channel bimbo responded, I want a Constitutional amendment so Arnold can be President. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center has

Closer Together Than Average Primes Discovered

2003-03-30 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5483833.htm And in amazing math discovery news... - ... Dan Goldston, a math professor at SJSU, has solved an important problem in number theory relating to prime numbers. ... Mathematicians described the advance -- announced at a

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan writes: Interesting, but mostly insanely wrong. Written by someone who is a hardcore leftist, it seems, and heavily slanted. I know the folks at FCF, and they're not mass murderers, racists, xenophobes, or guilty of the other allegations the author makes. Hmmm. I read through the

Re: CDR: Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread Eric Cordian
James A. Donald wrote: Baathism is not Islamic government, though Saddam, Bush, and Bin Laden are all trying to obscure the fact -- Baathism is a western ideology -- a mixture of communism and Nazism. It's interesting that the US is waging war against one of the most secular nations in the

Re: CDR: Boycotting the Unwilling

2003-03-26 Thread Eric Cordian
J.A. Terranson wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the

Boycotting the Unwilling

2003-03-25 Thread Eric Cordian
Wired News has an article on a US company refusing to honor winning eBay bids from Canadians because Canada doesn't support Shrub's war for Oil, Regional Hegemony, and a Greater Israel. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with

Re: Libertarian Party expresses concern over war -- but does not

2003-03-21 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan writes: Eric's statement was hyperbole, designed to provoke. My own view is that the Libertarian Party is being unfortunately wishy-washy when it comes to the war on Iraq. We've had this discussion many times before on this list. People who know nothing about Libertarians see a word

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Stuart writes: War has been declared against Iraq by the US President George Bush. Initial air strikes have been launched on Baghdad, which the US said were targeted at senior Iraqi leaders. British forces have not yet been involved and the order to begin a ground war has not been given. May

The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Wrote: With no chance for evacuation, and with a one-fifth of a mile high building toppling sideways, fatalities might have reached 30,000 or more. I'm not a structural engineer, but given that lateral structural strength is likely only a fraction of vertical structural strength, it

Re: Libertarian Party expresses concern over war -- but does not

2003-03-20 Thread Eric Cordian
Libertarians are people who think the only legitimate use of state force is to protect them from their slaves. It is unlikely that people who don't oppose the death penalty, nor the right of parents to beat their minor children at will, will care particularly about Shrub kicking the crap out of

Israel Honors Saint Goldstein

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Cordian
One of the greatest heros of the Isareli people is Saint Baruch Goldstein, the New York doctor who gunned down over two dozen Palestinians as they knelt in prayer. As Susan Cohen, perennial Usenet apologist for Israel is fond of saying, If only we had a thousand Baruch Goldsteins. Goldstein was

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Keith Ray wrote: When did the UN Security Council pass a resolution rescinding the use of force? Earlier resolutions only declared a cease-fire contingent on Iraq complying with all current and future resolutions. The behavior of the world community under US pressure is much like the behavior

Re: CDR: Where are the heros?

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Cordian
A. Melon wrote: Let us pray ernestly that a hero will rise up to slay the evil Texas mutant destroying our country and world peace. Eventually, brute force will meet force and brains, and be vanquished. Bullies are always amazed when they encounter the kinds of weapons that enlightened minds

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden wrote: Our leader understands the dynamics of peace. As he said last night, we are a peaceful people, and he understands that in order to secure peace, we need to aggressively defend the cause of peace, throughout the globe, by any means necessary. The US is one of many

Blair

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Cordian
When Clinton was President, Tony Blair was his best buddy. Now Bush is President, and Tony Blair is his best buddy too. But Bush is nothing like Clinton, so you have to wonder what, if anything, Blair actually stands for. It's like any American President can yell Piss Boy! and Blair comes

How Saddam Should Have Invaded Kuwait

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Cordian
One thing developing nations often don't realize, is that modern conflicts are fought as much in the arena of public relations, as they are on the battlefield. This is why the Iraqi and Palestinian leadership are constantly hoodwinked on the stage of international public opinion by the more

Re: CDR: Monocultures, Choice, and Access to Food Must Be Equal!

2003-03-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Writes: Access to Food Must Be Equal! The Bush Administration is proposing radical changes in the way food has been purchased by Americans for the past hundred years. Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter is floating the idea of a voucher system for groceries which would allow families

AmeriKKKa Tortures Detainees to Death

2003-03-07 Thread Eric Cordian
I'd really like to see FOX News do a poll on who is more dangerous to world peace, Bush or Saddam. Here's a lovely story from this morning's news, on how the US is treating its prisoners of war in Afghanistan. Hopefully, this will encourage AmeriKKKa's victims to treat US POWs with similar

Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Adam Back writes: Look at this shit on fox news, look how they bias the question and mis-represent the issue. FOX recently fired two reporters after they refused to change the facts of a news story. Fox said to them, We paid $13 billion for these stations, and we'll tell you what the news is.

Re: Press Coverage, Snarky Media Personalities, and War

2003-03-02 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim May wrote: P.S. I plan to make strong efforts to stop my new address from being harvested by spammers, such as using [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Usenet posts. I hope this works. --Tim, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm pretty sure, based on my spam volume, that spammers grep Cypherpunks for email

Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Eric Cordian
http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144dept_id=415763newsid=7071930PAG=461rfi=9 - ... According to Andrew J. O'Connor, 40, a former Santa Fe public defender, two city police officers removed him from the school's library about 9 p.m. Thursday while he was using a computer. They

One Man Against the World

2003-02-23 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/main.html - One Man Against the World --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes, but, somehow, his ascent to power was arranged nevertheless. ---

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan McCullagh wrote: This is an interesting case, but it's not as if Citigroup is trying to stifle academic research for the sake of stifling academic research -- the Cambridge folks were retained as (presumably paid) defense experts in the case. This is not to defend the prospect of a gag

Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-21 Thread Eric Cordian
Two Cambridge University researchers, Mike Bond and Piotr Zielinski, have devised a way to hack the hardware security modules used in ATMs and Point of Sale terminals, in order to recover a PIN in 15 tries. These sealed units read the strip on the card, do something with the account number using

Re: CDR: Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-21 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Stewart wrote: He was a Puerto Rican whose native language was Spanish (he was bilingual), but his name was something like Fred Mueller, so he failed the Spanish-Surnamed definition used by the bureaucrats. This reminds me of a black acquaintance of mine whose last name was Garcia. This

Re: The Train Wreck is Proceeding Nicely

2003-02-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Wrote: I predicted the Shuttle program would never succeed. I never expected cities on either body, because there was no economic reason to have them. (I used to hear the stuff about growing ultra-pure crystals in space, but I had seen Wacker's CZ crystal pullers, and I knew that

Re: CDR: Re: The Train Wreck is Proceeding Nicely

2003-02-19 Thread Eric Cordian
Neil Johnson wrote: However, for you new subscribers, I'd like to point out Tim's record for predicting the coming revolution. April 1995 Tim predicts the coming revolution as a result of the bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. December 1999 Tim predicts the

Zundel in the Slammer

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Cordian
Ernst Zundel's prison diary may be found at http://www.rense.com/general34/ernz.htm While I have not followed the debate between Ernst Zundel and God's Chosen People in any great detail, I would suggest that any legal action against Mr. Zundel which depends in the least bit on the accuracy of

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Cordian
Tim Wrote: When I was accused of planting a bomb to blow up President Clinton, I told them to prove it. This sounds like an interesting story. Would you care to elaborate? Orwell had their number. And the technological powers have made the ever-expanding power grab more and more

ADL Calls Protests anti-Israel

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Cordian
The Anti Defamation League has apparently decided to call the anti-war movement anti-Israel. http://www.adl.org/Israel/israel_protest_calendar.asp The prospect of war against Iraq and the crisis in the Middle East have led to a continuation of large rallies against Israel across the United

Re: The practical reason the U.S. is starting a war

2003-02-15 Thread Eric Cordian
John Young posts: From: V To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:01:47 -0500 Subject: Racism is Not Fashionable The terminology inner city welfare mutants demonstrates that this abstract is intended only for a certain segment of the people who read your page. I always found your

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

2003-02-14 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden Wrote: Well, you're kind of missing my point. You said that 'M' was for Moron, and I was pointing out that the Morons working on this theory are in some ways some of the most mathematically proficient people on the planet (and some are just plain old great physicsts). Well,

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

2003-02-13 Thread Eric Cordian
Tyler Durden opines: Yo! Superstring theory is only continuous math because the proper mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the needed mathematics. If Superstrings ends up

Snake Oil That Will Not Die

2003-02-11 Thread Eric Cordian
Oh look, it's a brand new fluff piece on Meganet and their Virtual Matrix Encryption, deconstructed years ago in various forums, including this one. http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.1998.01.01-1998.01.07/msg00047.html Why on earth is the Department of Labor giving them money? Meganet now

Re: The Space Shuttle's Secret Military Mission

2003-02-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Mike Rosing writes: I love conspiricy theory! Take totally unrelated stuff, mix it together and voila - instant evil! The article is total nonsense. For instance, Americium-242 has a half life of 150 years, and decays through isomeric transition. It looks like disinformation trawled under

Dell Dude Arrested for Pot

2003-02-10 Thread Eric Cordian
Oh, the Humanity... http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/10/dell.dude.arrest/index.html - NEW YORK (CNN) -- Benjamin Curtis, better known as the Dell Dude from the computer company's television commercials, was arrested Sunday while he allegedly attempted to buy marijuana on Manhattan's lower

Shuttle Audio Cutoff

2003-02-08 Thread Eric Cordian
Overheard on IRC. The nicks have been changed to protect the innocent. Person A: I wonder how NASA would have handled the PR had the shuttle audio continued longer, with horrible screaming. Person B: There's been some discussion on sci.space.shuttle about whether or not NASA

Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-07 Thread Eric Cordian
An interesting story on future citizen-units being brainscrubbed in the lovely state of Pennsylvania. http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/5124933.htm - Pledge law brings out opinions of all stripes By Dan Hardy Inquirer Staff Writer A roomful of Coatesville Head Start students, ages 3, 4

Real Facts and Good Facts

2003-02-03 Thread Eric Cordian
Bill Frantz wrote: At 10:19 AM -0800 2/2/03, Tim May wrote: Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an information slug at the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: Columbia was traveling 18 times faster than the speed of light. Please mister spaceman, won't you please take me along for

Re: Shuttle Humor

2003-02-03 Thread Eric Cordian
Meyer Wolfsheim writes: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: The look on your fellow astronauts' faces right before the grenade you are holding explodes --PRICELESS Please. If we're going to toss around conspiracy theories, let's make sure they are sane. I am

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