I'm keeping this one. It's tendng to the condition of poetry.
John Young wrote:
[...]
Commies, now there's a diversion fabricated in the propaganda
mills by ideological word-toolers of capitalists and socialists,
heeding the marketplace rule 1: concoct a worse evil to send
the pack howling
(if it is them not some spoof) were
sussed enough to realise that spamming just makes you look like a
prat.
Ken Brown
Whoops - apologies for stupid posting here caused by /me/ being a
prat with my mail program.
Though the message body it isn't entirely off-topic here - the
subject line is quite unrelated to it. Mea culpa.
Ken
ken wrote:
This piece of political PR was sent to a mailing list intended
Tim May wrote:
In any case, campaign finance reform is essentially uninteresting and
statist.
Yes Tim, but as we happen to live in places where states make laws
and employ men with guns to hurt us if we disobey those laws then
we do have an interest (in the other sense) in who gets to run the
Major Variola (ret.) wrote:
This is *not* a spoof.
Why should we think it a spoof? Maybe the USA is just catchiung
up. In my home town, Brighton in Enlgand, people calling
themselves the ALF used to do this sort of thing pretty regularly
in the late 70s and in the 80s. Once they let some
Tyler Durden wrote:
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
, and if there
is a postal vote scheme for people who really can't make it on the
day. Most countries don't even have all that yet (big chunks of
the USA didn't not that long ago), why complicate things
unnecessarily?
Ken Brown
(resident evil lefty)
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
-- Ben Franklin
And if they are all armed ? They all starve.
Lambs can eat grass, which is usually unarmed.
It
Declan McCullagh wrote:
I don't know what entryist means. It might be helpful to define
your terms.
Really?
That's odd.
Taking you at your word it means someone who joins (i.e. enters)
a political party or another organisation in order to take it over
and change it to their own point of view.
Tim May quoted Tyler Durden who wrote:
Well, I wouldn't apply the word oppressive across the board to the
cultures of big companies, but the fact is that modern American
coporate culture more often than not imitates a top-down, 'statist'
culture that is so universal we rarely recognize it.
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:57 PM -0800 12/9/03, Eric Murray wrote:
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Sterling makes a comment betraying what Ludwig Von Mises called the
anti-capitalist mentality when he quipped to Godwin: Sure, we hate Exxon because
they're huge and they're everywhere.
He was pointing it out, not preaching it. I think over in Austin
they do
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 2:58 PM + 12/12/03, ken wrote:
Bruce is a lefty, but not a statist
rghhht...
That's like saying that he's a sow, but not a boar...
grunt grunt
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Let's face it: not even the Nazi war criminals were treated in the way Saddam has been treated.
Eh?
And have you heard about the Soviet Union?
Steve Mynott wrote:
Jim Dixon wrote:
The term 'engineer' is far from precise; in the UK most people who work
with tools can be called engineers but people who write software
generally
are NOT called engineers. There are further complications: for
example, in
I have had jobs as a software
John Washburn wrote:
I would think the problem with the camp X-Ray approach is the same as
happened historically in Botany Bay or fictionally in the Moon is a
Harsh Mistress.
When (not if) the ongoing support of the penal colony collapses what
happens?
The children are in legal limbo; neither
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
[...]
Suggested countermeasure: When true anonymity is requested, use the card
ONLY ONCE, then destroy it. Makes the calls rather expensive, but less
risky. Make sure you can't be traced back by other means, ranging from
surveillance cameras in the vicinity of the phone
Eric Cordian wrote:
But Nigeria is a very poor country, with high unemployment, where people are
forced by economic circumstances to do almost anything to try and feed their
families.
The 419ers aren't the starving poor - they know exactly what they
are doing and have got the resources to do
Padraig MacIain wrote:
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:13:00PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
How do you spell John Smith in Gaelic?
In G`idhlig (Scottish Gaelic) it'd be at least starting as 'Iain' (which is the
Gaelized John).
The modern Scottish equivalent to John Smith would be Iain Gow.
Tyler Durden wrote:
Sounds to me like Al-Qaeda is just getting the most mileage they can out
of their little PR Event a couple of years ago. They don't even need to
blow up anything to get the most bang for their buck.
Hell, in this story the biggest threat was the incompetence of the airline.
An Metet wrote:
The person in question was just somebody with a weakness for
industrial architecture.
*I've* taken pictures of oil-company installations in Houston and
Galveston and points between. Who do I turn myself in to?
I also walk or cycle all over London take photos of just about
J.A. Terranson wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
The forest fire claim sounds more plausible in this
regard. An existing cloud could be used for masking, though.
Wait a minute: since when does a forest fire create explosions? Or have
enough ground force to push up a mushroom
Tyler Durden wrote:
Who, the Iranians? Which ones are fanatics?
I'll grant there are some fanatics left in Iran, but Iran seems
increasingly dominated by fairly sleezy clergy/judges. Like any
government, theirs is deteriorating into a mere racket. And if you ask
me, fanaticism never lasts very
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
At 9:09 PM -0700 10/30/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'm surprised
the Ask yourselves why we didn't attack Sweden comment
isn't discussed more
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5096
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE: The National Conservative Weekly Since 1944
[Heap
Bill Stewart wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
This presupposes the US intends to rule Afghanistan and Iraq,
which is manifestly false.
Since this chain started by ragging on RAH about it being a
_geodesic_ neo-{Khan, con-men} empire, you're both correct -
there isn't a
Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 23:30 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yesid=5652
Declaration of Expulsion: A Modest Proposal
It's Time to Reconfigure the United States
Chuckle-worthy, if not outright funny. Interestingly, I could see
James A. Donald wrote:
So far the Pentagon has
shattered the enemy while suffering casualties of about a thousand,
which is roughly the same number of casualties as the British empire
suffered doing regime change on the Zulu empire - an empire of a
quarter of a million semi naked savages mostly
China stagnated because no thought other than
official thought occurred.
And when was this stagnation?
And what were the reasons China did not stagnate for the
previous thousand years?
R.A. Hettinga posted:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/111704A.html
Tech Central Station
A Tale of Two Maps
By Patrick Cox
http://www.techcentralstation.com/images/111704AAA.gif
Here is a map showing U.S. population density in 1990:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/images/111704A.gif
The current war against western civilization started in the 1920's, when
Qutb started writing his Moslem triumphalist blather in reaction to the
complete collapse of the Turkish Caliphate in the wake of World War I.
Eh?
OK, I wouldn't have expected you to have heard of Uthman dan Fodio
and the
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
Apparently, understanding the recursive minutiae of the Levant, et al., the
old-fashioned received, regurgitated, OxBridge way didn't help y'all too
much when it came to Fabianizing yourselves back to the stone-age, either,
since we're on the subject of neo-feudalist
James A. Donald wrote:
The state was created to attack private property rights - to
steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but from the
beginning, always at the expense of other rich people.
More commonly states defend the rich against the poor. They are
what underpins property
My view - as controversial as ever - is that the problem
is unfixable, and mail will eventually fade away. That
which will take its place is p2p / IM / chat / SMS based.
Which are easier to spam and less secure than smtp.
SMTP is p2p by definition, though you can use servers if you want.
SMS
J.A. Terranson wrote:
Durbin was right. And he didn't even scratch the surface! Anyone who
thinks this Real ID Act is about getting false ID out of the hands of
The Terrorists is an idiot: they will simply print their own drivers
licenses - this is about forcing the regular population to get
James A. Donald wrote:
That is it. This is the ghost of cypherpunks.
Or maybe its counterpart fossil.
As GK Chesterton said about most nominal Christianity in the world
in his day - the original had rotted away leaving a space of the
same shape and size. Like the impression of a leaf
R.A. Hettinga wrote:
You're damn right it's political.
Especially if you're a Marxist, or some, shall we say homeopathic variant
thereof: after all, the personal is political, right?
Assuming that you mean feminism is a variant of Marxism, what
exactly do you mean by Marxism?
James A. Donald wrote:
--
From: ken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you really think that politics only exists where
there is a state? I'd have thought the opposite is
true. Most states actively prevent most people
participating in politics.
The more authoritarian the state
printed on them (most of them don't even bother with mag
stripes) seems very low-tech and physical!
Ken Brown
as money might sell. People seem determined to
use them for everything else. If there was a way of transferring prepay
directly between SIMs it would be used by teenagers (and drug dealers)
to settle small debts. Maybe they already are and I haven't noticed.
Ken Brown
And her smoke goes up
Trei, Peter wrote:
[...snip...]
what you said is all true but the benefit (as you pointed out) is
primarily to the retailer, not the shopper. All this doesn't apply to
higher-value transactions of course.
Ken, when was the last time you paid for a call from a UK
public phone with coins
Hereinunder attached is vauely on-topic, though spins some
unneccessarily self-important new jargon. They don't quite seem to get
that TCPIP is fundamentally P2P from the bits up. I like the phrase
disruptive compliance. The Net has a passive-aggressive personality?
Ken
Waging peace
guys. Not with both kneecaps,
anyway.
L** G*** is a nice man. He wrote that the Cult of the Dead Cow
were a bunch of barely literate mindless American teenage delinquents.
If they lived in England they could possibly sue him for that :-)
Ken
A quick walk round South London would show that a very large number of
men (including myself) shave their heads anyway - probably not as many
as 5 years ago, when it was almost normal, but a significant minority.
Ken
Generic Poster wrote:
..from an ad in circulation on BBC2 (UK) if I recall
Jim Choate wrote:
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Ken Brown wrote:
One of the classic examples of what is now called chaos (a word that I
don't like in this context). The exact trajectory taken by simple models
Uhuh...
of predator-prey systems is often very sensitively dependent on initial
KPJ wrote:
[...]
I have noticed this on-line anomaly which several people:
they require more data on an online communication subject than on an offline
communication subject. Appears irrational to me: online security can never
become higher than physical security of the subject. But I
Jim Choate wrote:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chaos.html
Er, yes, it is a great site. It even has a definition of mathematical
chaos:
A dynamical system is chaotic if it
1. Has a dense collection of points with periodic orbits,
2. Is sensitive to the initial
jill jill wrote:
[...]
Cut the link Einstein.ssz.com then we can have real
good unmoderated list,right Tim.
The act of moderation to end all acts of moderation?
Sorry Adam, that wasn't me, I just quoted it from the article in the
Register. So I know no more.
Ken
Adam Back wrote:
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:09:23PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote:
anybody that wishes to issue electronic money can do so as long as they
satisfy a number of core criteria
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The reason we have ready availability of credit in the first place
is because consumer debt is the most profitable business in the
United States.
I really wonder what component of this market is actually payment
driven. After all, to easily buy *anything* over,
at all,
statistically speaking :-)
Ken
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Jeezum, how old *are* you? We haven't called vacuum tubes 'valves' for
some time..
Oh yes we do! I never call them anything but valves.
as a matter of property,
French as a matter of personality, and the US as a sort of government
licenced monopoly or patent. But they are all much closer to each other
these days, with international copyright law being a compromise between
the old systems.
Ken Brown
) or are tiny (in France).
Ken
Pete Chown wrote:
[...]
This doesn't help with your other point, though; people wouldn't be able
to modify the code and have a useful end product. I wonder if it could
be argued that your private key is part of the source code?
Am I expected to distribute my password with my code?
Trei, Peter wrote:
[...]
That means tens of thousands of private-sector
employees working in industries such as
banking, chemicals, energy, transportation,
telecommunications, shipping and public health
would be subject to background checks as a
condition of employment.
Cor.
This
Eric Cordian wrote:
Pierce made a lot of sense, if one ignored the politically incorrect
hyperbole in his writings. It is ironic that Pierce died on the day
Zionist War Criminal Ariel Sharon described destroying an apartment
building full of civilians with a missile as ...in my view one of
://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2144279.stm
Ken
Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote:
Well, its official. Warchalking (802.11x domain marking) appeared on
the US edition of the BBC News. No hype re: anonymity t*rr*r*sm
tigers
bears; a mention though of service-contract violations, and the gift
/. They could be liable for millions! No respectable company
could possibly allow that to happen. There should be a law against it!
Our legislators must act to defend vulnerable corporations against
predatory customers like you who spend too much money!
Ken (who has to choose among the 10 or so local
and reproducible or
predictable software environments? These are the people who brought us
DLL Hell. These are the people who fell into the MDAC versioning
fiasco.
Ken
The biggest police station in western Europe is being built less than
half a mile from where I live. Your phone will keep on ringing and
ringing...
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
In some parts of rural america, folks signal the presence of cops by
flashing their headlights
when driving.
Tyler Durden wrote:
[...]
Granted, Chonskty can be a little tiring on the ears
His voice seems to have mellowed over the years. I heard him on the
radio last week and he sounded just like Garrison Keillor :-)
Ken Brown
are now so ubiquitous
that taking them away has come to seem as odd as asking visitors to
remove their shoes or to wear face masks.
Ken Brown
Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, the rason d'etre of 'eJazeera' as I see it is primarily for
publically-taken photos and videos to be quickly gypsied away from
But you forget - the BATF agents were all beeped and informed to not
bother to come in to work that day, and instead met up elsewhere, suited
up so they could arrive just in time (a few minutes after the boom) to be
heroic.
That indicates something, what exactly it indicates is left as an
Jim Choate says:
Godel's does -not- say mathematics is incomplete, it says we can't prove
completeness -within- mathematics proper. To do so requires a
meta-mathematics of some sort.
You are mixing up what Godel says about proving consistency within a system,
and his incompleteness theorem.
Harmon Seaver writes:
Anyone know anything about Akamai (www.akamai.com, also
akamaitechnologies.com)? I was getting about a zillion hits on my web
server
from them this morning. They seem to offer services to gov't agencies
according
to their website.
Their main service is serving static
Marcel Popescu wrote:
It does appear that the law in England is not as demanding as I believed:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/legaltender.htm
The concept of legal tender is often misunderstood. Contrary to popular
opinion, legal tender is not a means of payment that must be
Trei, Peter wrote:
If you put one of these stickers on your car, you are giving the
police permission to pull the car over without probable cause if
they find it on the road late at night (1am-5am, or something like
that), just to check that all is in order.
I think it's being promoted
Sarad AV writes:
there will be no inconsistency in a formal axiomatic
systems
Huh?
-but can any one point me to a contradicting
set of axioms in an axiomatic system?
In general you have to consider the whole system, including derivation
rules, not just the axioms, although you can certain
R. A. Hettinga wrote:
At 4:25 PM -0500 on 1/9/03, Trei, Peter wrote:
Basque is unique, as you say
I remember someone saying somewhere, probably on PBS, that Basque is *very*
old, paleolithic, and lots of popular mythology has cropped up that it's
the closest living relative to some
James A. Donald wrote:
Harmon Seaver:
Why not the army?
If it was only the executives and a handful of highly qualified
specialists, you would not need the army.
Strikers are mostly oil industry. And better-paid workers, technicians,
engineers so on. They might include safety
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
But now how to avoid leaving random DNA traces? What about giving up on
NOT leaving traces and rather just use eg. a spray with hydrolyzed DNA
from multiple people, preferably with different racial origin, thus still
leaving fragments like hair or skin cells, but
From: Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a
constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have
probably already flagged any transactions which mention space shuttle
and Columbia to be illegal thoughtcrime
Bill Stewart wrote:
Tim commented about railroad stations being in the ugly parts of town.
That's driven by several things - decay of the inner cities,
as cars and commuter trains have let businesses move out to suburbs,
and also the difference between railroad stations that were
built for
Gold star. Velvet Underground is definitely ground zero for Punk to my ears,
but with this recent set of pre-Velvets minimalist releases (eg, Dream
Theater, with LaMount Young, John Cale--who helped start the band I was in,
and others), the stage was somewhat set.
Yeah, yeah, yeah; I loved
Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I just hope they won't mothball the ISS...
Not if the scheduled Chinese manned launch goes ahead.
Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
I don't know how it works in the US, but railroads are both comfortable
and pretty reliable in Europe.
A bit too expensive, especially in Germany. I also like being able to work
on the train -- given that here cities are
Tyler Durden wrote:
And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an accidental
DEA bust in a Florida airport after landing a fresh new cargo. Supposedly
this was a bit of a snafu and they had to let him go on the hush-hush...(And
I keep hearing there's video of that bust.)
Eric Cordian writes:
In another teletext moment on CNN, the shuttle was described as traveling
at Mock 18.
There was an interesting article in the New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/5b4x)
back in Nov 2001 about stenographers working on 9/11--that was an angle I didn't see
anywhere else. When
, apart from the publican, I helped to appoint, and none of whom I
feel in the slightest way deferential to or look up to for leadership
whatever that is.
Who are my community leaders? It's just a silly question. No-one would
ask it.
Ken Brown
I'm trying to think of something I'd personally be less interested in
investing my own money in than an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Lots
of money invested up front, literally hundreds of small groups who could
threaten to damage it as a way of demanding a share of the loot, very hard
So which American on the list is going to write to Congress to demand
that the Statue of Liberty be sent back to France?
Ken
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'd think that the troops would explain this to the reporters tagging
along as they confiscate all their transmitters before an op. I simply
wouldn't trust the reporters, even though they're toast too if someone mis-IFFs.
Its a lot more serious than not
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ah yes, forgot about that -- the fancy condo right smack in the downtown
historic district used to be a while city block of historic buildings people
wanted to save, and, in fact, there were developers with money who wanted to
restore them, but the city, for some
Harmon Seaver wrote:
What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons
freely? Shades of Switzerland!
Soviet Armenia?
When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together
in /days/
According to the Russian news they used hunting rifles.
I'd been
John Kelsey wrote:
At 07:42 AM 3/20/03 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
...
The story you are telling is part of a big commie lie -- that
the US aided the bigoted Taliban against the elightened
communists who created a constitutional democracy where every
man and every women have a vote, and
Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
Tim - I don't think the cowboy (aka Shrubya) knows enough economics to
realize that, in the long term, income and expenditure must
be in some kind
of rough balance. He's always been able to lean on daddy's money.
I'm wondering whether the successive US
.html
Ken Brown wrote:
Major Variola (ret) wrote:
I'd think that the troops would explain this to the reporters tagging
along as they confiscate all their transmitters before an op. I simply
wouldn't trust the reporters, even though they're toast too if someone mis-IFFs.
Its a lot
of dispensationalism in the 19th
century (Google for Scofield Reference Bible) and, even in the United
States, has probably never been the majority view amongst Christians
though it might have got pretty near it in the 60s/70s/80s (Eve of
Destruction (Barry McGuire became a Christian evangelist IIRC)
Ken
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which
can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system
for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at
hundreds of small to medium sized airports around the
Eugen Leitl reposted an article by someone:
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Risks of Iraqi war emerging
Some officials warn of a mismatch between strategy and force size.
By Joseph L. Galloway
Inquirer Washington Bureau
Knowledgeable defense and administration officials say Rumsfeld
Tim May wrote:
[...]
The American CIA, DIA, FBI, ONI, and other groups are
quite capable of producing fake cargo manifest, fake credentials, fakes
of all other kinds, and of planting faked evidence.
The kind of people who sell foreign foods to corner shops and ethnic
restaurants are capable
Bill Stewart wrote:
At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank
I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym
and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-)
(Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an
John Kelsey wrote:
I wasn't thinking of Al Qaida. There are a *lot* of people who might like
to have a last-ditch deterrent against a US invasion or other action.
I can think of a few workable deterrents against US invasion:
- ICBMS
- an army with a reputation of fighting nastily when
AJ are being hammered at the moment - I'm getting timeouts to them the
picture I'm trying to look at is loading at 91 bits a second
Either they are very popular or else the DoSsers are onto them big-time.
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Hmm, weird -- I just got 64.106.174.80 on a lookup for aljazeera.net, and the
same for english.aljazeera.net, but now I'm getting nothing for both. So trying
from another server in AL, I get the same IP and can also actually lynx to the
site (which I couldn't do from
'Gabriel Rocha' wrote:
it is around 1130, local time, Geneva, Switzerland and
http://www.aljazeera.net/ is working just fine. (well, it might be a
fake, but not having ever seen the original, I don't know)
It looks like over here in Europe we're getting DNS to aljazeera.net
pointing to a
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219
Looks like they got them again
Mike Rosing wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote:
It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly
badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service
Tyler Durden wrote:
[...]
PS: Anyone notice the conceptual similarity between shock and awe and
blitzkrieg?
Yes, similar in some respects, though not the same. Shock and awe
(terrible name for a quite sensible idea) was about a military force
which is overwhelmingly stronger than its opponent
Steve Mynott wrote:
Tyler Durden wrote:
Well, I think there's an obvious disconnect on this issue. Clearly,
pre-Christian religious practices survived Christian persecution
throughout the ages. From the little I know, some of the practicing
Druids actually have received a nearly
Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
the side contributing the most corpses won.
True of Vietnam of course.
And of WW2, the dead being mainly in Eastern Europe and China.
Arguably of WW1 as well, the Germans lost fewer men on the Western Front
than the Belgians, French and British, but they had more
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