Re: Trap guns, black baggers, and Arlington Road

2003-02-11 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:43:26 -0800, you wrote: -- how does a property owner authenticate a person or group claiming to be cops? Flashing a badge is not enough, as badges for hundreds of jurisdictions are for sale by mail order, gun shows, and probably lots of other shops. (For the uninitiated,

Re: Dell Dude Arrested for Pot

2003-02-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 4:22 PM -0800 on 2/10/03, Tim May wrote: In this age of the War on (Some) Dictators and the War on (Some) Drugs, the persecutors have to pick their targets for maximum effect. Hence the impending life sentence for the Berkeley guy who committed thoughtcrime by writing books and articles

Re: Putting the NSA Data Overwrite Standard Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread David Howe
at Monday, February 10, 2003 3:20 AM, Jim Choate [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen to say: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sunder wrote: The OS doesn't boot until you type in your passphrase, plug in your USB fob, etc. and allow it to read the key. Like, Duh! You know, you really ought to stop smoking crack.

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:32:13PM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: TPM != TCPA. TCPA with *user* control is good. The TPM is a mandatory part of the TCPA specifications. There will be no TCPA without TPM. And there will be no TCPA-enabled system with complete user control. Just look at the main

RE: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-11 Thread Vincent Penquerc'h
While I have a lot of problem with the Pledge in any form, I think it would be greatly improved if it were made to the Constitution, rather than the flag. But wouldn't that hint to these children that they may actually have to think ? You don't have to think of a flag, you just react with

RE: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-11 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: But wouldn't that hint to these children that they may actually have to think ? You don't have to think of a flag, you just react with (preprepared) emotions, but with a constitution... No reason we can't start a movement to plege alegiance to

Re: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers (fwd)

2003-02-11 Thread Mike Rosing
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: The TPM is a mandatory part of the TCPA specifications. There will be no TCPA without TPM. That makes sense, TPM is just key storage. And there will be no TCPA-enabled system with complete user control. Just look at the main specification:

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

Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Tim May
Here in war-preparing America, reports are running on CNN, CNBC, CBS, and presumably other networks about the importance of some basic emergency supplies for all good citizen-units. This is mostly good advice, of course. Being a paranoid and a kind of survivalist, I already have first aid

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Frantz
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 like would prefer that guns be in the hands of

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Tim May
My point was that a gun is an item for an emergency, not that everyone who does not now have one should buy one. Nor was my point addressing the issue of what would happen if everyone tried to buy one suddenly!? On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:43 PM, Trei, Peter wrote: Three points: 1.

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:20 AM, 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

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread jet
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 like would prefer that guns be in the hands of

RE: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Trei, Peter
Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [...] That Item Whose Name May Not Be Spoken on Television: a gun. If there's disruption, looting, a breakdown in what now passes for civil order, a gun is just about the most important thing to have. Probably not necessary to use it, for 99.5% of

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread Mike Rosing
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 supports him inspite of his lack of of commitment to

Re: A secure government

2003-02-11 Thread telecon
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: How about a publishing bot that creates a current and accessible db of randomly selected recent emails crossing the Internet alphabetized by sender name and email address? My guess is that if the scoundrels supplying the data

NYT: The Wimps of War

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Schear
[use login: cyberpunks/cyberpunks] By PAUL KRUGMAN George W. Bush's admirers often describe his stand against Saddam Hussein as Churchillian. Yet his speeches about Iraq  and for that matter about everything else  have been notably lacking in promises of blood, toil, tears and sweat. Has

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:44:13 -0800, 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 like would prefer that guns be in

Re: Something conspicuously missing from the media survival lists

2003-02-11 Thread lcs Mixmaster Remailer
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:00:38 -0800, you 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

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Mike Rosing wrote: Some 40+ years ago we had to learn it in kindergarten. One kid refused and they took him out of class. His and the other kids parents were pussies. I first went to school about the same time ago, 1966 in Houston. I didn't do the pledge and they called

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Except that there are so few of those no one has ever been able to quantify/qualify them, so we don't know what that really consists of. When you say those are you referring to bad acid trips? (Don't tell me you've never had one!) I'll grant, however, that bad trips seem to occur much more on

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:34:54PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Except that there are so few of those no one has ever been able to quantify/qualify them, so we don't know what that really consists of. When you say those are you referring to bad acid trips? (Don't tell me you've never had

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Harmon Seaver wrote... As far as actual LSD goes -- none. And I did a couple hundred, anyway. Towards the end (and after it was suggested on the Senate floor that bad drugs be created and distributed on the streets to freak out LSD users), many things were sold as LSD which were not. I

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:20:19PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Harmon Seaver wrote... As far as actual LSD goes -- none. And I did a couple hundred, anyway. Towards the end (and after it was suggested on the Senate floor that bad drugs be created and distributed on the streets to freak

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Mynott
On Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003, at 21:25 Europe/London, Harmon Seaver wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:34:54PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Except that there are so few of those no one has ever been able to quantify/qualify them, so we don't know what that really consists of. When you say those are