Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Keith Ray
Quoting Eric Cordian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The US is one of many nations. Since the inception of the United Nations, > and International Law, a nation may go to war only if it is attacked or in > iminent danger of being attacked by another nation. The US is a signatory > of the UN charter, and

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread gabriel rosenkoetter
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Keith Ray wrote: > The UN authorized force in resolution 678 to uphold current and future > resolutions. The UN voted unanimously to declare Iraq in violation of > previous UN resolutions in 1441. The UN weapons inspector's reports > detailed many omissio

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Stewart
At 09:55 AM 03/18/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote: A Stinger missile launched from a hotel room window overlooking an airport (think of San Diego, for example, as the fllight path comes in over the downtown skyscrapers) would halt air traffic--again. Especially if several attacks happen at about the s

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:05 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: I think you're on to something here. One quick thought that occurs to me is that for some of the gain, I see no reason forward error correction couldn't be used within the IP payload, at least for a few dB of gain (has this been tried?) Both coding (e.g.,

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread David Howe
> About the threat to Washington: I think it's relatively high. A > nerve gas attack on buildings or the Metro seems likely. (The > Japanese AUM cult had Sarin, but was inept. A more capable, > military-trained operative has had many months to get into D.C. and > wait for the obvious time to attack

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-18 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 01:05 AM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: They won't specify what *individuals* will get what tags, just that it's a $2,500 Prada handbag -- which still raises the crime concern. Why would anyone *want* to invest $2k5 to a lousy handbag? There are LOTS of more useful things

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
One can well imagine the chaos that would ensue if every nation that perceived some other nation as a potential future threat ran around >waging pre-emptive strikes and wars of aggression. Precisely. This is why the United States should be the lone guardian of peace and freedom throughout the

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 accomp

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Patriot Keith Ray wrote... The US is also the world's foremost provider of economic aid. Whether >the US is a bully or a peacekeeper really depends on your perspective. Yes, and the fact that the majority of this aid is in the form of munitions credits is proof of the fact that we Americans are

Re: surveillance nation (fwd)

2003-03-18 Thread Sunder
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 14:26:26 -0500 (est) From: Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: surveillance nation If my host has been spamming - I'd certainly like to know. I just sent you a message di

surveillance nation

2003-03-18 Thread Sunder
Interesting, lne.com flagged this as spam. --Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--- + ^ + :NSA got $20Bil/year |Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\ \|/ :and didn't stop 9-11|share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\ <--*-->:Instead of rewarding|monit

Re: surveillance nation

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Sunder wrote: > Interesting, lne.com flagged this as spam. We probably rejected the SMTP connection as coming from a source that's sent us spam in the past. Read the bounce message and use the URL to send me the ID code please. There's no content-based s

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 runn

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 09:12 AM, David Howe wrote: About the threat to Washington: I think it's relatively high. A nerve gas attack on buildings or the Metro seems likely. (The Japanese AUM cult had Sarin, but was inept. A more capable, military-trained operative has had many months to ge

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 11:59 AM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: Oh, you mean the free elections like the one that got fixed by President Bush's brother in Florida in 2002? Or maybe you mean the kind of election in which a candidate can win the popular vote but still not be elected, like in 20

Bush's Moment of Truth

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Stewart
Bush said this was going to be the "Moment of Truth". Well, we haven't had a moment of truth from his administration yet, so I guess that's a welcome change...

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread Anonymous
Tim, it's time to switch to decaf. On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:59:31 -0800, you wrote: > > Journalists, diplomats, inspectors, and civil servants are being urged to evacuate > the capital. A timetable of 48 hours has been given. > > "The Evil Doers will be rooted out and the Evil Ones punished," said

RE: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-18 Thread Trei, Peter
> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Michael Shields wrote: > > > It adds up, especially in low-margin businesses. Groceries are a good > > example; unpacking every cart, scanning, and bagging is an expensive > > bottleneck. The process could be streamlined a lot if

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

Re: Where are the heros? and the true meaning of NEW-KEW-LAR

2003-03-18 Thread Sunder
Yes! I've noticed that too! He certainly clarified the reasons for going to war. Certainly a few days ago, news articles were spewing "But Saddam >MIGHT< attack first." - The intention with all of this, and last night ultimatums is to get him to move 1st, that way Shrub Jr can say "He hit me f

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
I think you're on to something here. One quick thought that occurs to me is that for some of the gain, I see no reason forward error correction couldn't be used within the IP payload, at least for a few dB of gain (has this been tried?) Of course, the FEC probably won't help the header informat

I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
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. Likewise with American freedom. Terrorists and evil

Re: Where are the heros?

2003-03-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
As long as hardware is not acting fully autonomously it is usually sufficient to address the soft targets, especially unprotected noncombatants at home. Self-replicating weapons are best, which for now means engineered pathogens. Things are bound to become pretty dynamic once we'll get free-environ

Re: Where are the heros?

2003-03-18 Thread Bill Stewart
At 07:36 PM 03/17/2003 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: What the world needs now is not another mass killing of Iraqis by the United States government. What the world really needs now is a fifty dollar weapon that sinks aircraft carriers. It's called a "radio" Needs some auxiliary equipment :-) but

Support the Troops!

2003-03-18 Thread Anonymous
We will support our troops when they shoot their officers!

Helter Skelter

2003-03-18 Thread Anonymous
Two great items in today's news -- the FBI says it will pull all agents off of crime fighting duties to concentrate on terrorism because of the attack on Iraq, and also that so many police and firemen have been called up for the attack that many cities, and especially small towns, are seriously

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

Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-18 Thread Tim May
Journalists, diplomats, inspectors, and civil servants are being urged to evacuate the capital. A timetable of 48 hours has been given. "The Evil Doers will be rooted out and the Evil Ones punished," said one spokesman. However, as of midnight, Eastern Standard Time, there is no evidence that

Re: Where are the heros?

2003-03-18 Thread Neil Johnson
I liked someone's comment that Shrub warned the Iraqi's not to destroy oil wells BEFORE warning them not to uses weapons of mass destruction. Must keep our priorities straight now, shouldn't we. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-18 Thread Thomas Shaddack
> I can imagine some ways to deal with this. Have certain blocks of RFID > address space assigned to specific companies, who publish what products > they'll be used for. The same strategy AFAIK works for UPC/EAN barcodes, for assigning IMEI numbers to cellphones, for book ISBNs. For an example de

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread adg
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:13:46PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Using a powerful high-frequency modulated infrared source (eg, a bank of > LEDs) located on a highly visible place, it couldbe possible to facilitate > local community broadcasts, effectively sidestepping all FCC regulations. Hi,