ID Citizenship Believe it or Nots

2002-04-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
Identification Citizenship Believe it or Nots by Duncan Frissell http://technoptimist.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_07_technoptimist_archive.html Last September's attack on the United States vastly increased debate on identification, citizenship, and immigration. For your education and amusement

Re: pre-paid/pay-as-you go cell phone service (Re: all about transferable off-line ecash)

2002-04-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 12:47 AM 4/10/02 +0100, Adam Back wrote: But from what I saw it was around 4x more expensive. A SIM with a years contract (all paid up front) is pretty easy to obtain for 10 - 50 pounds depending on number of free minutes included. And some people even like anonymity. Yes other things

Re: One for declan Mc CATOhead,pass it on dec!

2002-04-12 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, matthew X wrote: http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/12/1018333413565.html 700,000 awarded against British American Tobacco.Possible 1,000,000 fine for destroying evidence. Put that in your pipe and smoke it you cheap shill. But I thought: No opinion a law -- no

Choate a Spammer or a Victim?

2002-04-23 Thread Duncan Frissell
Has anyone noticed genuine spam wrapped in Choatian wrappers? Perhaps someone who's good at header analysis can comment. This is the header of a mailing list sales pitch I retrieved from my trash file (where Choate and MattX go. I also got some porno spam. Innovation thy name is spam. DCF

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US? (Re: to outlaw general purpose computers)

2002-07-02 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Adam Back wrote: Just curious, but what was the rationale under which private possession of gold was made illegal in the US? It boggles the mind... Adam Eric's comment are correct. A bit more info. The US wanted to devalue the $ and substitute a general gold standard

Re: Tax consequences of becoming a US citizen.

2002-07-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Tim May wrote: Why do you think a person without a green card is exempt from IRS jurisdiction? I assumed that he meant a US non-resident. Obvi Unless one's stay is a short one (see below), income or other money earned while in the U.S. (and maybe earned outside the

RE: Are the Feds Wimps or What?

2002-07-22 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: Well, the other possible interpretation is that the Feds are not black-at-heart, Big Brother, neo Stalinist fascist JBTs pouncing on any opportunity to make confetti of the Bill of Rights; but rather are actually trying to respond to 9/11 with a

Re: Are the Feds Wimps or What?

2002-07-23 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: I'm back to not showing ID to get into work just like before the war. Well, you showed it to them enough times, they believe you now :-) Maybe it was the 14 years they'd been seeing me. I actually didn't show it that much even during the

How to Defeat DVD Zone Controls

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Frissell
From Ditherati: YOU CAN'T FIRE ME, I SUBMIT I care more about this than getting myself fired, but the fact is that getting myself fired today would have hurt Hewlett-Packard's Linux program. Open-source guru Bruce Perens, on his courageous decision to keep drawing a paycheck instead of

Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-29 Thread Duncan Frissell
Congressman Wants to Let Entertainment Industry Get Into Your Computer Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely if

Pizza with a credit card

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
to be seen, but those kinds of weird things happen with data. Course all those terrorists buying their pizzas with cash get away clean. DCF Posted by Duncan Frissell to http://technoptimist.blogspot.comThe Technoptimist at 7/29/2002 10:19:30 AM

Is Latvia Offshore?

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
that it is Latvia. Now it is certainly possible that heroic Latvians could be offering fabulous anonymous bank accounts and credit and debit cards but how would one know this in advance. Then there's the fact that the record was created in May. A bit young. Give it a while to age. DCF -- Posted by Duncan

A QA exchange between me and Eugene Volokh

2002-07-30 Thread Duncan Frissell
to state and federal permission and which activities should not? DCF -- Posted by Duncan Frissell to The Technoptimist at 7/30/2002 10:40:04 PM

Selling Privacy for ETC

2002-08-20 Thread Duncan Frissell
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Raise the Fist Webmaster pleads guilty

2002-09-25 Thread Duncan Frissell
and http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/9845643t4a.article -- Posted by Duncan Frissell to The Technoptimist at 9/25/2002 1:54:34 PM Powered by Blogger Pro

RE: JYA ping

2002-10-04 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We paid a surprise Sunday morning visit to the CIA back entrance, got surrounded by HMMVs and spiffy guards with hands on guns, interrogated by a swell looking Ms. Security who ran our Duncan Frissell ID card through the master file, idled for 1/2

Re: citizens can be named as enemy combatants

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Tim May wrote: Fuck the U.S. Fuck it dead. Do it soon. This is one of the rulings which completes the shredding of the Constitution. Every member of that Court should be killed for their crimes against the Constitution. It's a good thing he was captured by the Feds

Re: bin Laden, Hanssen, Inslaw Promis, Oh My!

2003-01-10 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 09:58 AM 1/9/03 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030106-75579570.htm --- Greets to the TLA moths flitting to the flame of keywords.. Though the article would be better if it had named the former NJ Governor Thomas H. Kean instead of David H.

Re: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: I'm struck by how many of them this year treat civil liberties as gone, either as old-fashioned or as just plain ignorable. I love the frequent use of facial recognition systems on TV as well. With, of course, no mention of the fact that they don't work. DCF

Re: A prediction

2003-02-19 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 03:24 PM 2/18/03 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: -- The Iraq war will, as everyone knows, be launched on the 27 or 28th of february. I was thinking about 0400 hours (GMT+3) on the morning of the 28th (that being Sunday in Muslim countries). Sunday the 2nd is dark of the moon and an

Re: Give peace a chance?

2003-03-06 Thread Duncan Frissell
The Smoking Gun has the complaint and police reports up: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/crossgates1.html It wasn't the T-shirts. They were proselytizing other customers. Allegations of verbal disputes. Discourages shopping. LLOYD CORP. v. TANNER, 407 U.S. 551 (1972)

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

2003-04-01 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 12:43 PM 3/29/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: I totally agree. The US has lost everything in terms of world opinion. We are morons led by an insane lunatic and the US needs to be dealt with accordingly. Once we start invading Syria, the world will retaliate in a big way. We're already

Re: Trials for those undermining the war effort

2003-04-01 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 09:06 AM 3/29/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: Tim wrote: To cut to the chase, several of my former friends are calling me a traitor and claiming to have reported me to the FBI for my statements about how the war machine ought to be hacked and undermined. See below. A so-called conservative

Re: Year in Jail for Web Links

2003-08-14 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: 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.

Re: National Emergency?

2003-08-21 Thread Duncan Frissell
Nothing much new. The answer is forever. http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-358es.html Executive Orders and National Emergencies: How Presidents Have Come to Run the Country by Usurping Legislative Power DCF On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: So how much of the Constitution gets

Re: Drunken US Troops Kill Rare Tiger

2003-09-22 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: In my opinion, the tiger was worth more than all the US Troops currently occupying Iraq. Maybe the tiger shot first. If AmeriKKKa freely re-elects Shrub, because Americans admire his bullying the rest of the world, and the American people freely

Re: [declan@well.com: [Politech] FBI visits John Young, asks about anti-government activity [fs]]

2003-11-06 Thread Duncan Frissell
It's a little late for Special Agent Todd Renner to avoid publicity: http://www.networks.org/?src=cnn:2003:US:Northeast:05:22:explosives.arrest Todd Renner -- an FBI special agent assigned to the Joint Terrorist Task Force in New York DCF At 02:39 PM 11/5/03 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: -

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

2003-12-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Tim May wrote: It happened in one of the movies groups (rec.arts.current-movies), when the thread was on DVD copy protection and the (claimed) illegality of making DVDs of movies. I explained how I was cheerfully making an average of a DVD a day of my favorite current

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

2005-07-05 Thread Duncan Frissell
Fine, I'll just order the birth certificate and get it over with, right? Wrong. New York wants affirmative proof of identity for a copy now: passport or your [missing] original birth certificate. Anyone else see a circular problem here? http://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/birth.htm

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-22 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 02:08 PM 7/22/2005, Duncan Frissell wrote: entrance until you make it into the system without a search. Or you can decline to use government transportation entirely and call 212-777- for the Tel Aviv car service (most of who's drivers are the sons of Hagar rather than the sons of Ruth

Re: Well, they got what they want...

2005-07-22 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 11:00 AM 7/22/2005, Tyler Durden wrote: OK, OK...so the police are deterrents against a few lone crazy copycats, who don't have enough sense to enter away from police line-of-site. But it sure seems damned silly to be giving up constitutional protection for the sake of an image of protection.

Re: How to Exit the Matrix

2005-08-09 Thread Duncan Frissell
At 07:27 PM 8/1/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network Forensics Evasion: How to Exit the Matrix https://n4ez7vf37i2yvz5g.onion/howtos/ExitTheMatrix/ Tor (tor.eff.org) required Privacy and anonymity have been eroded to the point of non-existence in recent years. In fact, in many workplaces,