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Krishan Kumar. 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals. Univesity of Minnesota Press, 2001, 448 pp. $US 24.95 paper (0-8166-3453-X), $US 68.95 cloth (0-8166-3452-1) A professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and expert on the history of utopian thinking, Kumar proposes an impressive and provocative reassessment of the major intellectual, political and moral underpinnings of the revolutionary upheaval that dismantled Leninist regimes in East-Central Europe during what was rightly called the annus mirabilis 1989. He explores the role of critical intellectuals in the de-legitimization of Leninist regimes and the main causes of communisms breakdown. The best parts of the book deal with the nature of revolutionary actions and ideas in the 1980s and 1990s. Kumar rejects the different endist schools: for him, and rightly so, history has not reached its ultimate station in the figure of liberal democracy, and utopia has not been exhausted. Particularly informative and illuminating is Kumars discussion of the genealogy and implications of the concept of Central Europe in the shaping of the dissident philosophy of emancipation. Readers who want to grasp the cultural resources of oppositional stances of movements like Polands Solidarity, Czechoslovakias Charter 77, and Hungarys Democratic Opposition (Network of Free Initiatives) in the 1980s will find this book truly enriching. The book is superbly informed in terms of the major Western discussions on the revolutions of 1989 and their aftermath, including the post-communist syndrome of malaise, disaffection with anti-politics, and the marginalization of the former dissident heroes. What is missing to some extent is an analysis of the ongoing debates in East-Central Europe. Kumar quotes extensively prominent authors like Adam Michnik, George Konrad and Vaclav Havel. Surprisingly, he does not mention works by other exponents of the dissident tradition, including such significant authors as Miklos Haraszti, Janos Kis, or Karol Modzelewski, who have all contributed to a better understanding of the nature of communisms collapse and the rise of new political communities rooted in the values associated with the ideas of 1989. Kumar embraces the view held by the late French historian François Furet, according to whom 1989 has not brought to fore any new idea. He also agrees with Jurgen Habermass stance on the revolutions of 89 being fundamentally attempts at restoring the pre-Leninist order. But these are questionable positions. In fact, as Agnes Heller, the former critical Marxist Hungarian philosopher has often argued, 1989 is not necessarily about new ideas (although it is also about that, I would say), but rather about new political styles. In this respect, it remains to be seen why the new politics championed by the men and women of the revolutions of 1989, including those related to direct democracy and civil society, have lost their appeal. Is this a temporary setback for these ideas? Or maybe they belong to what Hannah Arendt once called the lost treasure of the revolutionary tradition and will be someday re-discovered. After all, this is the major disagreement between the former anti-politician Havel and the neo-liberal, ultra-pragmatic Vaclav Klaus: for the former, civil society is an indispensable component of the new democracies; for the later is just an intellectual utopia, a mirage that prevents the coalescence of genuine political gains. In agreement with Hungarian political philosopher G. M. Tamas, Kumar takes issue with those who proclaimed the rise of civil society in Eastern Europe as a main element that led to the revolutionary transformations. Furthermore, he questions the decisive role of movements from below in the disbanding of East European dictatorship. True, Kumar expresses admiration for these movements, but sees them as secondary in significance compared to the most important geopolitical cause of the revolutions: the Gorbachev factor. In other words, for him, had Mikhail Gorbachev not come to power in 1985 and allowed for new experiments in the Soviet bloc, including the resumption of Marxist revisionist attempts to construct socialism with a human face, the revolutions of 1989 would have been impossible. In fact, as Michnik once argued, Gorbachev himself was the response not only to the systemic crisis of Sovietism, but also the effort of the Leninist bureaucracy to contain the contagious impact of Polands independent, self-governing movement Solidarity. Moreover, Gorbachevs reforms were the response to mounting pressure from grassroots associations and other forms of civil society in the Soviet Union (a point made in the late 1980s by historian Moshe Lewin). In order to make sense of 1989, one needs to revisit the major efforts to rethink Marxism and Leninism, including the saga of crushed revolutionary efforts in East-Central Europe (Hungary 1956,
The Banality of Crypto.
Do we revere the printing press as a great revolutionary lever? What about the ancient long barrelled musket? (some of you might I know.) Will the denizens of the future even two generations hence consider crypto anything special? Of course not,the commonplace,the ubiquitous and the everyday is soon taken for granted and is soon quickly part of the wallpaper.Why will it be there? Simply because on the balance of probabilities,if it isn't then none of us will be,just ask Bill Joy or Ted Kascinski.However profoundly revolutionary the effect of the printing press and the rifle were once now they are as mundane as a museum.So it shall be with crypto and the sooner the better.That it will help bring down one of the worst dangers to our continued presence here will no sooner occur than it shall be forgotten and that's as it should be.To waste time revering our revolutionary forebears would take longer every generation.It's enough to know that as long as we remain human there will be those able to seize what chance and intellect offer to overthrow the old and get on with the new,thus preserving the best of the old in a never ending dialectic.There can never be an end to hirstory...only humanity. We did not enter into society to become worse than we were before, nor to have fewer rights than we had before, but to have those rights better secured.
Albert Camus.The Rebel.(one)
The Rebel The Rebel by Albert Camus is 50 this year,published in 1955 the text refers to 1953 as the year of its conception.How has it stood up over the years? Is it still worth reading? I came across a copy recently after being reminded of an event in my life,perhaps triggered by this book.When I was 15 I borrowed my fathers copy and was deciphering it in my room one day when he appeared at the door.Why don't you just fuck off and take your nihilistic views with you,he exclaimed,possibly the worse for drink.Well I did take off,hitching to Sydney on the old highway that so recently jogged my memory. To arrive back where you started and know the place for the first time is a theme from another favorite book of mine from that era,(1970)The Magus.After arriving back at that fork in the road with guidebook in hand,here is my chance to know the place refreshed,more knowledgeable and more autonomous.But is it worth knowing at all? Well not many books give you something to go on with for decades so I owe the damn thing something.I would have to say yes,it is worth the bother,the time and the difficulty of wrestling with it.You may not enjoy it but it can be read as hirstory,flicked through and thrown alongside all the other bourgeois historians and political philosophers.A teenager had to know something about rebellion in those days as it was all around,not so much the forgotten seminal movie,'Rebel without a cause,'but youth rebellion mainly against the war in Vietnam. Our family spent two years in the States,(66-67)AU had the draft and my brother and I would be eligible in a few short years.There were even a few high school student,'unionists',passing around Yippie samizdats and Zap comics along with the odd joint.
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Hanssen's behavior raised no red flags at the bureau, and he was caught only with help from a Russian defector. Hanssen not only walked out of the FBI building with documents and computer disks containing top-secret information, but he also cruised the FBI's major investigative database. The Webster report and FBI leaders agree that installing basic security in its computer system is crucial, and the bureau plans to use devices that will trigger warnings if someone is regularly inspecting files without authorization. A preliminary damage assessment by the FBI of the impact of convicted spy Robert P. Hanssen's treachery determined that the identities of more than 50 people who were providing confidential intelligence information to the bureau or were being recruited to do so were disclosed to the Russians. Although it has been reported that Hanssen's disclosures played a part in the execution or jailing of at least three Russians who had spied for the United States, this is the first indication that his activities put in jeopardy a far larger number of other people working clandestinely for the bureau, according to the report of a special commission headed by former FBI and CIA director William H. Webster that was released Thursday. The FBI has had to take dozens of its informants out of operation and halt a number of technical programs and projects, according to the report. The Russian intelligence units in the Washington field office were apparently hard hit, the report said, and the New York field office had two sources put in jeopardy. Even today, according to the Webster report, some FBI sources apparently fear that information Hanssen passed will lead to their discovery and their handlers can do little to assuage these fears. A senior FBI official said yesterday that disclosure to the Russians of the identity of certain people providing secret information to the bureau could be a threat to their lives. But some of the informants may have been American or foreign nationals who would not be in danger because they were in positions in banks or private companies. Their access through their work would have enabled them to provide confidential information on Russian targets. The Webster commission used Hanssen's damaging disclosures to sharply criticize the FBI's sloppy security practices, starting with weaknesses in its automated case support system (ACS), which was supposed to store the Bureau's institutional knowledge. Most, if not all members of the Bureau community have access to ACS, the report found. Though the system could be used in a way that would restrict access to highly sensitive files, such as those on informants, the commission found that the system that went into effect in 1995 was so difficult to operate that many of the files that should have been made unreachable were not. As a result, it found, Hanssen was able to access 500 case files that had not been appropriately restricted. The weakness in the ACS system was known in some bureau field offices but not accepted at FBI headquarters, according to the report. For example, the commission found it was common knowledge that agents in the New York field office refused to put intelligence information in ACS as required by bureau regulation because they developed significant concerns about security. That came because an intern from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was able to break into restricted files in one afternoon of testing the pilot system. Another major weakness in protecting the identities of informants was that they were given only a secret classification, and thus their files could be kept on desks during working hours at headquarters and field offices because those spaces were considered secured areas. The FBI's failure to give human intelligence more protection than it does is somewhat at odds with its traditional desire to protect human sources, the commission noted. When CIA spy Aldrich H. Ames was uncovered in 1994, it was learned that he had disclosed the names of agency and FBI-recruited Soviet and Warsaw Pact agents and that about 10 were executed. At that time members of Congress were surprised to learn that the agency classification for the identities was only secret, as opposed to the more restrictive top-secret. One of the Webster panel's recommendations was that the bureau should carefully consider adopting the . . . system of compartmenting human source information developed by the CIA. The irony is that an FBI counterintelligence expert was sent to the CIA to upgrade its internal security operations after the Ames case, while today a CIA counterintelligence officer has been dispatched to the FBI to do the same thing there. In summing up its findings, the Webster commission in effect said the FBI now joins the CIA, the State Department -- which lost a laptop computer containing sensitive information and found a bug in one of its rooms -- and the
Albert Camus.The Rebel (two)
So you were a Rebel then,there was no getting around that,you were reminded everytime some Hoon yelled out,get a haircut!'There was a sort of,'cutural revolution',going on and living close by Universities you couldn't help noticing.Certainly psychedelics had demonstrated brave new worlds of freedom existed right under our noses.The question was no longer,why rebel?',it was,'why conform?' Conforming could mean burning children alive in Vietnam,we had to rebel.Here was a writer Camus,well known from,'the stranger',who seemed to have written the textbook on being a rebel.Yet there were immediate difficulties with the text.It was dense,it was full of abstract concepts and few of the characters mentioned rang any bells.Still it was fascinating to try and learn the meaning of the concepts through context.A great game! And then there were the characters,these were real people he was talking about and it was enough to know that they existed at the time.I could find out more about them later and would I! Albert was laying it all out for the last few hundred years and all you had to do as a reader was rise to the occasion.Boot up,if you like,it all seemed to be right there.The who,what,where,when and most important,why of the meaning of,if not life,a critical issue of my life at that time and place.Revolt. Now the concentration camps are creeping back,the humane executioners and the terror we can still find uses for Camus.Or can we?Due to bad translations,the Gaullic language or some inate sexism of Alberts,he seems to have written out half the human race.Women do get a look in as characters,even fictional characters and 'love interest,'but a feminist would have to work at this book.It would have to detract from the enjoyment.
Albert Camus.The Rebel. (three)
So we rebel against the idea that rebellion is only for men,that must be said at the start.Now we strike problems with the idea of race.That it is to Europe the world should look after disgracing itself so badly. Why not America? They don't have rebels over there? What was Camus's role in Algerian revolt? As it happens,his was a decent response that was totally ineffectual.It hasn't stopped bourgeois humanitarian politicians making fools of themselves in polarized situations ever since.Maybe that is one revolt I miss the point of.Anyway by now we have read,Manchild in the promised land,Soul on Ice and Soledad Brother and we suddenly remember that Mersault shot and killed an Arab on the beach that day the sun got in his eye. Now over the years and thanks in large part to Camus,we choose Anarchism over the democratic socialist tradition we were raised in and the Marxist,'leap of faith'we are offered in our wanderings.As anarchists dipping into the bible of rebellion what do we find? Well a rather cavalier approach to Max Stirner actually.I refer those interested to the web where Alberts mistakes are dissected.Still we all make mistakes and two out three aren't bad.Except actually there may be three because since 9-11 something else has come up.See in spite of perhaps most of the hijackers not knowing what was to happen to them,at least some of these new assassins did.What are the formulas according to the master again? Pacifism is wrong because it approves diffuse violence and continuing injustice.Murder in the name of any absolute value is wrong and nihilistic yet murder followed by self sacrifice,gives rise to the informal value that Camus builds his book on.The rebel may be driven to violence by extreme circumstances and kill as long as they accept that they will be killed in turn.There is a kind of just judges approach to the problem and Camus certainly is preoccupied with justice,see 'La Chute'(the fall)The Camus approach might be said to have been formed during his time in the resistance and its a little dissappointing that theory,(in the rebel) overwhelms lessons that could have been referred to in combat.There is a curious ahirstorical side to Camus even as he works up to his elbows in the guts of hirstory.
Albert Camus.The Rebel. (four)
Toward the end of the rebel,the metaphysical logical deriver of revolutionary principals from practise suddenly becomes a carver of commandments.Absolute free speech and no indefinite imprisonment are worthy and laudable but they seem to spring out of Alberts,(Athena's ?)head. They contradict the rest of the book that argues in the most minute detail against deriving any absolute values from revolt.There might just be some sense of desperation here as he has painted himself,(and us)into a very dark corner. Getting back to 9-11 for a minute,when we apply the logic on offer in the rebel to the hijackers whose real generosity gives all to the present,what do we get? Quite logically we get a picture of one person somewhere with the power to destroy the planet.And why shouldn't they if they pay with their own life as well.The nihilists Camus approves of are now arming themselves with the means to take us all with them and according to the formula of the rebel,this will give rise to a value? Camus does mention atomic suicide in the rebel and most of it is taken up with his battle with nihilism,with murder and suicide.He does argue for limits and against absolutes but is this argument effective? It is a contradiction kept in tension,created and mastered by intelligence according to Camus.It is 21st century schizoid man with a splitting headache according to matt the revisionist who is finally letting go of the one who promised so much and finally delivered so little.Adieu old friend,for fifty years you have been my guide yet we have to strike on for the summit unroped in gathering storm.I will try and bring something back for you.Sleep well for you did well,our clear eyed friend,we won't forget you.
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Now see here (4.50 / 2) (#90) by johnny on Wed May 8th, 2002 at 09:15:11 PM EST (anyoldthing@myhomepage) http://www.wetmachine.com/ Just because I don't encyrpt, it doesn't follow that I can't encrypt. I'll grant you that in actual fact as a practical matter I don't encrypt, but that doesn't mean I can't. If I wanted to, of course, I could just go next door to see my friend landlord and he could have me encrypting until the cows came home. Which reminds me, my rent is late! Anyway, I fall into that demographic that iGrrrl others have described: believe in privacy, don't do much about it (but I do surf without cookies, and I don't use cell phones and I don't use credit cards). Why don't I use encryption, then? To quote our old friend Reb Tevye, I will tell you: I don't know. And lastly here's a tidbit that's somewhat off topic: I have a bunch of yahoo and hotmail accounts, and sometimes just for grins I send notes from one to the other with contents like this: Let's kill George Bush. And let's do microbial warfare to Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton. I despise the Jihad. Let us anthrax the President until he is dead and let's assassinate the public safety. I started this practice after one of our own K5 brethren was tracked down by the Secret Service on account of some of his posts here (which were quite benign, if you ask me.) So I decided to see if I could get a rise out of the Secret Service for mail sent from me, to me, and seen by none other. Dear Wife Betty, looking over my shoulder one day seeing one of these things, said, what the hell is that? I told her. She said to Youngest Daughter, Your father is trying to get arrested again. No, I said. It's illegal to threaten the President. But it's not illegal to talk to yourself. Since then I think my wife and daughter have taken up the practice. I haven't caught an inquiry yet. But on the other hand, I live on Martha's Vinyard, and in a hundred hours fishing over the last decade I haven't yet caught a bluefish (it's nearly impossible to not catch a bluefish on Martha's Vineyard.) Meta: OK yes I admit it, this is the kind of slashdotty post that generally gets modded to about 2.3 by our elite K5 post criteria. And if anybody else wrote this note I would agree that it's self-indulgent and noisome and meriting of a 2 or therebouts. But hey, I am after all the eponymous johnny of the subject, and I rather think I deserve some slack. (Actually, the mere fact that Don Davis is my landlord should get me at least a 4 irregardless.) yr frn, jrs TechnoParanoid NanoNovel Acts of the Apostles Fear the Future! From a Kuro5in thread,Johnny cant encrypt.'
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The Culpability of the Conformist Criminal Choate.
Choate hails from Texas,the state with the highest rate of cold blooded state murder. Have we heard the slightest peep out of this serial spammer about this? Choate condemn the state murderers or remain a cold blooded conforming creep. 30 December 2002 ] To Kill Or Not To Kill 'Illinois, which has a death penalty, has a higher murder rate than the neighboring state of Michigan, which has no capital punishment but roughly the same racial makeup, income levels, and population distribution between cities and rural areas. In fact, in the last decade the murder rate in states without the death penalty has remained consistently lower than in the states that have had executions. Surveys of criminologists and police chiefs show that substantial majorities of both groups doubt that the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides' ( Scott Turow via New Yorker ) » See also the Death Penalty Information Center website http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm
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Aceh Show Trial Verdict.
McCulloch sentenced December 31 2002 By Tom Hyland Foreign Editor Jakarta Picture: AFP Lesley McCulloch behind bars before her trial in Aceh. Indonesian soldiers in the strife-torn province of Aceh usually get their own way, so when they detained two Westerners - and women at that - leaving a rebel area, they would have expected them to come quietly. Instead, they were met with defiance. Australian-based academic Lesley McCulloch, 40, refused to open her bags and was allegedly roughed up and sexually harassed as a result. In reaction, her companion, American nurse Joy Lee Sadler, 57, did what she later told an interviewer came naturally: I slugged the Indonesian commander in the face. For that, Sadler said, she was punched in the mouth and stomach. The pair's defiance has continued in the three-and-a-half months they have been detained in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, since their arrest on September 11. Yesterday McCulloch, a British national who until July worked at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, was sentenced to five months' jail. She had been convicted of violating her tourist visa by contacting rebels of the Free Aceh Movement, which has been fighting for independence in the province for two decades in a vicious war that may have claimed as many as 30,000 lives. The actions of the defendant could have threatened national security and the territorial integrity of the republic of Indonesia, said Judge Asril Marwan. The sentence will take into account the time McCulloch has served already, meaning she will be freed in about six weeks. Sadler, who has been on a hunger strike since late last month and appeared weak and distressed in court yesterday, was sentenced to four months' jail, meaning she will be freed in just over a week. She cried when the sentence was handed down. McCulloch appears to have particularly upset the military with her published accounts of alleged human rights abuses inflicted by the army on civilians. She maintained her defiance yesterday, describing herself as a victim of the Aceh conflict. The whole trial process is based on paranoia and fear, she told reporters in the courtroom. And she told the prosecutors: You are evil, evil. The London-based campaign group Fair Trials Abroad, which has been monitoring the case, said the verdict appeared to be politically motivated. Normally for visa offences people are simply booted out of the country, said the group's director Stephen Jakobi. It's got to be politically linked. Indonesia's legal system is widely regarded as corrupt. Critics allege that verdicts often depend on pressure from politicians or military officers. Both women had put up a feisty defence in their trial, irritating the authorities with their uncompromising stance and denying the charges, which carry a maximum five-year sentence. Prosecutor Kamaruzzaman had called for a nine-month jail term because the women's actions caused unrest among the people and because they tried to obstruct the court process by giving unclear testimonies. The prosecutor alleged they took photographs, gathered data and documents and provided medical treatment in a village in South Aceh where they were supposed to be on a tourist trip. The women had argued that they could not refuse when armed rebels asked them to take photographs of houses destroyed by the military. In protest at delays in the trial, Sadler, who is HIV positive and suffers from hepatitis, went on a hunger strike on November 28. But it was McCulloch who had the most prickly relationship with officials and who seemed the main target of prosecutors, who at one stage threatened to charge her with espionage. - with agencies http://theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/30/1041196597824.html
ID thieves honorary horsemen.
Authorities are struggling to combat a computer-based crime wave, writes Peter Huck. Ever wonder what would happen if someone had taken one of your credit cards to its maximum, cleaned out one of your bank accounts, piled up debts, even committed a crime in your name - without you having any idea until police or debt collection agencies were banging on your door? Welcome to Identity Theft, the fastest growing, and possible hardest to combat, crime in the US and, now that the Internet has made us all one big happy and exploitable family, possibly the world. In November, US federal authorities in New York announced they had arrested three men and charged them with stealing credit card information and draining the bank accounts of at least 30,000 people. It is believed to be the biggest identity theft scheme so far. With a few keystrokes, these men essentially picked the pockets of tens of thousands of Americans, taking their identities, stealing their money and swiping their security. According to US authorities, it was an inside job, allegedly facilitated by Philip Cummings, an employee of Teledata Communications. The Long Island software company provides banks with computerised access to credit information databases. Mr Cummings is accused of selling, at $US30 a pop, passwords and codes - forwarded to at least 20 people - for downloading consumer credit reports. The scam netted at least $US2.7 million ($A4.81 million), although the nine-month investigation is still at its early stages and that figure could swell dramatically. Many suspect this crime is the tip of an iceberg. The FBI has called for greater international cooperation to combat identity theft. Certainly, police forces across the US have been overwhelmed by the phenomenon, which surfaced in the early 1990s. What is truly scary about identity theft is how easy it is. At the simplest level opportunistic thieves pilfer mail boxes - sometimes brazenly trailing postal workers - and rubbish bins, searching for bank and credit card details, and other information. The financial costs of identity theft are difficult to quantify. But one thing is certain - they are invariably passed on to consumers. I wouldn't be surprised if the total cost of identity theft wasn't billions of dollars, if you consider all the variants of this crime, says the agent in charge of cyber crimes at the FBI Los Angeles office, Frank Harrill. Initially, identity theft was not even recognised as a crime in the US - it is now a federal crime and most states have laws - making it a Kafkaesque experience for victims who had to prove someone else was responsible for the outlandish bills charged to their name. Even now, victims have to resuscitate their credit ratings, sometimes as new bills flood in. The worst cases have involved people whose identities were stolen by career criminals who then committed serious crimes. Linda Foley, the founder of the Identity Theft Resource Centre, which helps victims, realised her identity had been stolen when her credit company phoned to verify a change of address. They wanted to know about my new post office box, she says. Except that I didn't have one. She later learned she had been betrayed by her employer, to whom Ms Foley had given her social security number, the US equivalent of a personal identification number. Besides spending hundreds of hours unravelling the financial scam and reviving her credit rating , Ms Foley had to grapple with the emotional stress of betrayal and lingering paranoia. Ms Foley is scathing of US businesses that, for example, send out billions of unsolicited, pre-approved credit card offers each year. No wonder the sale of home paper shredders has skyrocketed. Once thieves acquire a name, an address, a phone number or, best, a social security number, they can construct a fake identity and acquire bogus drivers' licences, credit cards, and bank accounts. Some thieves assume multiple identities, dumping them when credit dries up. Today, identity theft takes myriad forms. Modern thieves are more likely to pick through massive digitalised databases, often accessed by hackers using the Internet. Credit card databases are really coin of the realm now within the hacker communities, says Mr Harrill. Although that isn't so hard on individuals - it isn't the assumption of an individual's total identity - it's still identity theft. There are millions of compromised credit card accounts. This trend has made identity theft a supranational crime. Somebody in Latvia might be using stolen identities to order shipments of computers, for example, says Ronald Iden, of the FBI Los Angeles office. Or criminal groups anywhere outside this country can now loot bank and credit accounts here. Or, for that matter, anywhere. There also is growing concern that terrorists are using identity theft to launder money to raise funds. What to do? Consumers should check their
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I don't want to worry you but this GM crop thing...
Monster weeds feared By DANNY BUTTLER, rural reporter 31dec02 A NEW report on genetically modified plants has revealed they could lead to the creation of herbicide resistant superweeds. Environment groups have called on the State Government to abandon trials of GM crops following the release of the British report. The news followed a Productivity Commission study which found Australian farmers will fall behind the rest of the world if they do not embrace genetically engineered plants. But the British National Institute of Agricultural Botany and the Laboratory of the Government Chemist report has cast doubt on the safety of the controversial plants. Canola crops examined during the six-year study were found to have contaminated other crops, with machinery used on the test plots helping to spread genes to other land. It was the reported ease with which the GM canola cross-bred with weeds which caused the greatest concern among environmental groups. The Australian Conservation Foundation said cross-bred GM plants would be a menace to native eco-systems. We have a tragic history of introducing species and crops which get out into the Australian environment and have a devastating impact on wildlife and agriculture, ACF campaign director John Connor said. It's exactly the sort of thing we have been warning about . . . cross-species could create superweeds which would get out of control and damage not only the Australian bush but the Australian farm. The ACF called on the State and Federal Governments to place a moratorium on GM crops until further evidence can be gathered. We're not entirely opposed to them, but we need a five-year freeze, Mr Connor said. We need to be extremely careful as we look at this new technology and I think caution is justified when you hear these reports. The Victorian Farmers Federation said it was satisfied sufficient caution was being taken with current GM trials. VFF grains council chairman Ron Hards said the Victorian Government was taking the correct approach. I think it's on the right track. Industry self-regulation and government regulation are working, he said. We haven't seen any information that has changed our minds and we have been looking at the issue for donkey's years. The Productivity Commission research paper found that if Australian producers did not boost GM technology, markets for oilseeds and non-wheat grains were likely to stagnate. The results imply that over the longer term, the expansion of GM technology into non-wheat grains and oilseed sectors could have significant impacts on Australia's trade position, it said. If Australia's adoption (of GM technology) does not increase, while its trading partners expand their use of GM crop technology, Australia may lose some opportunities to raise (or even maintain) its market shares over the long run. But the ACF said the Productivity Commission had failed to look at the big picture. I think the productivity commission is taking a very short-sighted and classical economic view and hasn't factored in the risks appropriately, Mr Connor said. This report shows just how big those risks can be for a country like Australia. Last year, about 5.5 million farmers in 13 nations grew GM crops -- predominantly soybeans, corn, cotton and canola. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5769199%255E662,00 .html
When was Mongo's last MRI?
Nightmare experience for man whose cancer turned him into a pedophile December 31 2002 A brain tumour that was found to have triggered sexual aberration has made medical history. New York: A brain tumour turned a 40-year-old schoolteacher into an uncontrollable sex addict and pedophile, a meeting of experts has been told. When the tumour was removed, the man's obsession disappeared. But by then the teacher had been evicted from his house and found guilty of child molestation. Russell Swerdlow and Jeffrey Burns, neurologists at the University of Virginia, believe it is the first reported case linking brain cancer with pedophilia. They told the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in New York that the tumour was in a brain region that did not affect physical health. Dr Swerdlow said: We're dealing with the neurology of morality here. It's one of those areas where you could have a lot of damage and a doctor would never suspect something's wrong. The teacher had secretly started visiting child pornography websites and soliciting prostitutes, activities he had never engaged in before. Dr Swerdlow said that while the man felt his new behaviour was unacceptable, in his words, the pleasure principle overrode his restraint. When the man's wife discovered he had been making subtle sexual advances towards young children, he was legally evicted from his house and found guilty of child molestation. A judge ruled he had to pass a 12-step Sexaholics Anonymous rehabilitation course or face going to jail. But the man was expelled from the program after asking women on the course for sex, the meeting heard. The evening before he was due to receive a prison sentence he took himself to a hospital. He said he was suffering headaches and feared he would rape his landlady. After being remanded to psychiatric care, he complained of balance problems, and a MRI brain scan revealed an egg-sized tumour. Seven months after the tumour was removed, and having completed the Sexaholics Anonymous course, the man returned home and resumed a normal life. In October last year the headaches returned and he started collecting pornography again. Another scan showed that the tumour had regrown, but again its removal caused the man's sex-obsessed behaviour to disappear. Dr Burns said: He wasn't faking, but if someone argues that every pedophile needs an MRI, the difference in this case was that the patient had a normal history before he acquired the problem. David Rosenfield, a behavioural neurologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, said more research was needed on whether other problems with the orbifrontal cortex region of the brain might be linked to pedophilia. The case was reported by New Scientist magazine's online news service.
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QM, EPR, A/B
Tim May wrote... I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation, especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, just the quantum mechanics is about measurables ground truth of what we see, what has never failed us, what the mathematics tells us and what is experimentally verified. Whether there really are (in the modal realism sense of Lewis) other worlds is neither here nor there. Naturally, I would be thrilled to see evidence, or to conclude myself from deeper principles, that other worlds have more than linguistic existence. Yes, this has been a fashionable set of statements, very smiliar to quantum mechanics is merely a useful tool for calclating the outcome of experiments. I used to chant this too, but the recent (well, over the last 10 years) experimental work in EPR has convinced me that there's really something odd going on here. Many worlds (first proposed in the 50s and recently revived) is one possible explanation for why, for instance, photons in the double slit experiment know about the slit they didn't go through. And while I am not particularly convinced that this is the explanation (there are other basic things about the QM world it doesn't explain, such as why I measure THIS outcome rather than THAT outcome), I'm personally at the point where I think some form of answer is needed, and that the above intellectual dodge is no longer valid. So at least many worlds is one possible attempt to answer why photons are able to know instantaneously about correlated photons far removed (and for me, and the late John Bell it is inescapable that they do indeed find out instantaneously). One way out is to ditch quantum mechanics as being anything near a description of reality as classical theories in essence are. Tim Boyer of CUNY and a batch of Italian researchers have done a pretty convincing job of showing that Ahranov-Bohm can be classically derived in a fairly straightforward manner. But it doesn't explain how AB is able to predict said phenomenon in about 4 lines while they need many pages of fairly difficult EM theory. For me it's clear that A/B and EPR show us that QM is telling us SOMETHING about reality, but we don't yet understand what it is.
Re: QM, EPR, A/B
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Nomen Nescio wrote: One way out is to ditch quantum mechanics as being anything near a description of reality as classical theories in essence are. Tim Boyer of CUNY and a batch of Italian researchers have done a pretty convincing job of showing that Ahranov-Bohm can be classically derived in a fairly straightforward manner. But it doesn't explain how AB is able to predict said phenomenon in about 4 lines while they need many pages of fairly difficult EM theory. That's pretty cool. In this case QM is just a short cut. For me it's clear that A/B and EPR show us that QM is telling us SOMETHING about reality, but we don't yet understand what it is. Part of the problem is that the detection equipment is many fermions looking at single particles. I think QM is easier to understand when looking at an ion trap. There are lots of photons around for every atom but the interactions are with fields and the detection is of single photons (again with massive amounts of equipment, but the atoms don't interact directly as in EPR or double slit). QM is a nice model that works. It is a good mathematical description of observed phenomena. What else do we need? The idea that a photon passes thru one slit or the other is just a model. What is the slit? It's really a whole bunch of fermions in a spacial pattern, and when an electron or photon interacts with that distribution we get the observed self interaction result. The model is self interaction. That may have nothing to do with reality. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Re: Drivel and Gutter,Boring.,
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Isn't it fascinating to see the neo-liberal Choate post marxist stuff here and relate to this post? Neo-liberal? What a joke. I'm not a liberal or a conservative. Do you have a point to make other than name calling? Typical CACL bullshit. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
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Re: CDR: Re: What is Anarchism?
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Anarchism is the belief that people are basically good, (Shoate shite) Sez who? Sez you, actually.. A lot of people attracted to anarchism seem to think like Lord Acton,that power corrupts and the less your average person has over you the safer you'll be. Thank you for agreeing with me, people are basically good. Othewise what is being corrupted? If they're already bad, then what is being corrupted? Nothing, they're already corrupt. If they're already corrupt then you have to accept the fact that even if we were in the nirvana state of anarchy at least some people would not see it as their best interest, and would do something about it (which by the way is where the 'big stick' observation about anarchy comes into play - however much you might want to deny it). Anarchy is that people would get along if left to their own ends and didn't have to put up with 'governments'. The problem is that 'governments' don't exist outside of individuals anymore than forests exist without trees. You can take the tree out of the forest, you can't take the forest out of the trees. You can take people out of government, but you can't take government out of people. The way people speak of 'government' as if it were something extant outside of peoples minds and hearts is truly schizo. Typical CACL double-speak. People attracted to anarchy, irrespective of their intelligence, are emotionaly stunted. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Matthew X wrote: Too much egg-nog? Try... Stoicism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stoicism is a school of philosophy commonly associated with such philosophers as Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus. Organized at Athens in the third century B.C.E. (310 BC) by Zeno of Citium and Chrysippus. The Stoics provided a unified account of the world that comprised formal logic, materialistic physics, and naturalistic ethics. Later Roman Stoics emphasized more exclusively the development of recommendations for living in harmony with a natural world over which one has no direct control. So much for Coase's Theorem... Living according to nature or reason, they held, is living in conformity with the divine order of the universe. The four cardinal virtues of the Stoic philosophy are wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, a classification derived from the teachings of Plato. Do much for 'greed is good'. -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
Re: Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: And this general line of reasoning leads to a Many Worlds Version of the Fermi Paradox: Why aren't they here? Why aren't they all where? If they were 'here' then they wouldn't be another world now would they? The reason I lean toward the shut up and calculate or for all practical purposes interpretation of quantum mechanics is embodied in the above argument. IF the MWI universe branchings are at all communicatable-with, that is, at least _some_ of those universes would have very, very large amounts of power, computer power, numbers of people, etc. And some of them, if it were possible, would have communicated with us, colonized us, visited us, etc. If they could communicate they wouldn't be different. This is a variant of the Fermi Paradox raised to a very high power. It's muddled thinking raised to a lot of wasted human effort. ps there are -two- different ways to propose the 'many worlds' model. The first being that the worlds occupy the same 'space' but differ in all other characters; in other words they are the same cosmos but with different 'decision trees'. The other is that they exist in a 'meta-space' that seperates -all- metrics; that the many cosmos' are truly each unique and share nothing (note that this model can also contain the first). -- We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, Plan 9 from Outer Space [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org
The Two Towers....
Blah blah blah wrote... My hunch is that the new towers will never be filled and will turn out to be a business catastrophe Who gives a crap? Despite the fact that the original towers were as ugly as hell, they were a giant Fuck You to the rest of the world and we New Yorkers loved 'em. (I still say to NJ-based relatives that All of you conspired to knock down the towers...I refuse to distinguish between bin Laden, gov Florio (or whoever), and George Bush. All I know is that it was you non-New-Yorkers who did it 'cause you hate us and all our cool food, culture, filth and crime.) And until I stop paying taxes entirely, I might as well SEE something my tax $$$ may have been used to build, as opposed to stealth buildings and giant storage schools. (I always used the same argument to support the superconducting supercollider) oops, I said business, when in fact it is the Port Authority, a weird melange of jurisdictions which is probably constitutionally invalid). The PA is certainly one of the more lecherous groups in these parts, including the mob. They were supposed to dissappear after the tolls paid for roads and bridges to be built. But using that ole' loophole (something to do with refinancing), they've maintained their incpometant and corrupt stranglehold on most of our major thoroughfares for lo these many years (increasing the pollution like crazy, too). I wasn't sorry to see those Bauhaus boxes go. Bauhaus? I guess. More like that 70s warmed over post-Bauhaus fascist crapola. Nobody in NYC really thought they were beautiful, but we do miss 'em (see above!). And Peter Trei wrote... One thing I liked in particular was that most of the designs weren't afraid to go high into the sky this time around. Building high is an expression of confidence. This I more or less agree with. And it's not a government thing, not a business thing, just a New York thing. We need replacement towers for sure, and that design by David Rockwell Co (with those odd empty tower-structures) might be good. They have the additional advantage of not casting such a dark shadow over downtown and Brooklyn Heights. PT wrote... The WTC was a landmark for a huge part of the city; you could see it easily from most of midtown and downtown. but Blah Blah Blah wrote... Hideous boxes. Again, you miss the point. We New Yorkers navigated by them, and when traveling out in th'sticks (ie, New Jersey and west of the hudson) those ugly boxes would come popping up over the horizon welcoming you home, just like your ugly ole' Mom. Somebody wrote, and I really don't remember or care who. Hell, let's say Tim May wrote it just to piss him off... My own initiial idea was to rebuild the towers as they were, but in goldtone instead of silver. Now, I'd like to be a little more respectful of the pre-WTC street grid (If you weren't actually going to the WTC, it was a huge obstacle to get around, either driving or on foot). But I still want towers which rise far above the skyline. That original twisty-towers design brought forward in response to how shitty the original official designs were by that Amalgamated Architects was the best design, but for some reason it didn't make it into the official final round. One hopes not a single fucking dime of taxpayer money will go into rebuilding anything on that site. (Oh, I won't scream if $25,000 is allocated to hire that Chinese architect to replicate her Vietcong wall with the names of the dead so that the weepy ones can do their tracings and all. But nothing more should be spent out of the taxpayer's pocket.) Like I said, you can either SEE your tax dollars build something (even if its useless), or else they'll just dissappear up some buereucrats (I can never spell that word) nose. Unless you pay zero taxes of course. (Ayn Rand loved the Twin Towers, ironically, and typically, and disgustingly. But, then, she thought cigarette smoking was a symbolic affirmation of Man's control of fire and his striving to reify A or Not-A through purity of essence! A read through a couple Ayn Rand books and none of this should be suprising. As far as I'm concerned she wasn't exactly von Neumann. Tyler Durden
Ecstasy Air: U.S. Airforce members in Europe smuggle drugs
List At least the U.S. Airforce active duty members show some ingenuity when smuggling drugs in and out of the European Union. http://www.dps.state.mn.us/MCAN/CASystem/uploadedfiles/Hydroxycut.pdf (May be gone. Google has a copy) Yours LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE DO NOT DISSEMINATE OUTSIDE OFFICIAL CHANNELS DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS ANDREWS AFB, MD 20762-7002 NARCOTICS BRIEF 02-03 FROM:HQ AFOSI/XOGP DATE OF REPORT:23 May 02 SUBJECT:Hydroxycut(r) Capsules Used to Store Ecstasy TO:All Regions, Squadrons, Detachments, and Operating Locations (CAT III) SOURCE: SA Earl Lesniak, AFOSI Detachment 531, Aviano Air Base, Italy SUMMARY:Recent interviews disclosed Active Duty Air Force members stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy, emptied Hydroxycut(r) capsules and replaced the contents with crushed ecstasy pills to avoid detection when crossing the Slovenia/Italy and Slovenia/Croatia borders. Hydroxycut(r) is a popular dietary supplement used for weight loss. Hydroxycut(r) is made by MusleTech Research and Development -- EOT
Rde: The Two Towers....
Oh that our saviour Osama would come soon and turn all New York into a radioactive pile of rubble.
County votes for land use anarchy
Georgia County Fed Up with Too Many Rules and Regulations Excerpt: Fed up with the complexity of zoning ordinances and various other land use restrictions already in existence, and a new raft of rules handed down by the state government, elected officials in Habersham County, Georgia, took a radical and unprecedented step. They voted to eliminate all land use regulations for the county, as well as the planning commission and building inspectors. http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11369 If you can't join 'em, beat 'em. -- W's global policy of hegenomy
Re: The Two Towers....
Please label movie review postings with spoiler so that those of us who haven't seen the movie yet don't mistakenly read the plot. Go Frodo! (I'm joking, of course: I already saw The Two Towers.) On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 11:40:26PM -, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: Blah blah blah wrote... My hunch is that the new towers will never be filled and will turn out to be a business catastrophe Who gives a crap? Despite the fact that the original towers were as ugly as hell, they were a giant Fuck You to the rest of the world and we New Yorkers loved 'em. (I still say to NJ-based relatives that All of you conspired to knock down the towers...I refuse to distinguish between bin Laden, gov Florio (or whoever), and George Bush. All I know is that it was you non-New-Yorkers who did it 'cause you hate us and all our cool food, culture, filth and crime.) And until I stop paying taxes entirely, I might as well SEE something my tax $$$ may have been used to build, as opposed to stealth buildings and giant storage schools. (I always used the same argument to support the superconducting supercollider) oops, I said business, when in fact it is the Port Authority, a weird melange of jurisdictions which is probably constitutionally invalid). The PA is certainly one of the more lecherous groups in these parts, including the mob. They were supposed to dissappear after the tolls paid for roads and bridges to be built. But using that ole' loophole (something to do with refinancing), they've maintained their incpometant and corrupt stranglehold on most of our major thoroughfares for lo these many years (increasing the pollution like crazy, too). I wasn't sorry to see those Bauhaus boxes go. Bauhaus? I guess. More like that 70s warmed over post-Bauhaus fascist crapola. Nobody in NYC really thought they were beautiful, but we do miss 'em (see above!). And Peter Trei wrote... One thing I liked in particular was that most of the designs weren't afraid to go high into the sky this time around. Building high is an expression of confidence. This I more or less agree with. And it's not a government thing, not a business thing, just a New York thing. We need replacement towers for sure, and that design by David Rockwell Co (with those odd empty tower-structures) might be good. They have the additional advantage of not casting such a dark shadow over downtown and Brooklyn Heights. PT wrote... The WTC was a landmark for a huge part of the city; you could see it easily from most of midtown and downtown. but Blah Blah Blah wrote... Hideous boxes. Again, you miss the point. We New Yorkers navigated by them, and when traveling out in th'sticks (ie, New Jersey and west of the hudson) those ugly boxes would come popping up over the horizon welcoming you home, just like your ugly ole' Mom. Somebody wrote, and I really don't remember or care who. Hell, let's say Tim May wrote it just to piss him off... My own initiial idea was to rebuild the towers as they were, but in goldtone instead of silver. Now, I'd like to be a little more respectful of the pre-WTC street grid (If you weren't actually going to the WTC, it was a huge obstacle to get around, either driving or on foot). But I still want towers which rise far above the skyline. That original twisty-towers design brought forward in response to how shitty the original official designs were by that Amalgamated Architects was the best design, but for some reason it didn't make it into the official final round. One hopes not a single fucking dime of taxpayer money will go into rebuilding anything on that site. (Oh, I won't scream if $25,000 is allocated to hire that Chinese architect to replicate her Vietcong wall with the names of the dead so that the weepy ones can do their tracings and all. But nothing more should be spent out of the taxpayer's pocket.) Like I said, you can either SEE your tax dollars build something (even if its useless), or else they'll just dissappear up some buereucrats (I can never spell that word) nose. Unless you pay zero taxes of course. (Ayn Rand loved the Twin Towers, ironically, and typically, and disgustingly. But, then, she thought cigarette smoking was a symbolic affirmation of Man's control of fire and his striving to reify A or Not-A through purity of essence! A read through a couple Ayn Rand books and none of this should be suprising. As far as I'm concerned she wasn't exactly von Neumann. Tyler Durden
Re: [AntiSocial] Re: The Geodesic Economy: World Peace Through Free Trade
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: At 07:05 PM 12/29/2002 -0600, Alif The Terrible wrote an archetypical New Yorker's summary of the plans: 1* - Sucks 2 - Sucks 3 - Sucks - shoot the architect now! 4 - Sucks totally 5 - Sucks even worse 6 - Not so hot, but maybe 7 - Also not so hot but maybe Whole thing is a scam anyway Obviously 9/11 hasn't fundamentally changed the city's character. Would you love us any other way? * Disclaimer: I may have the different plans slightly out of order It's OK: the order in which they sucked wasn't really relevent anyway :-) -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place...
Re: CDR: RE: The Geodesic Economy: World Peace Through Free Trade
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: R. A. Hettinga[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I wonder what people, especially from New York City, think about the new proposals for Lower Manhattan and World Trade Center site that came out this week. http://www.lowermanhattan.info/rebuild/new_design_plans/ My qualifications: I lived in NYC when I was a little kid, and in Manhattan from the end of college until I moved to Massachusetts 14 years ago. Qualifications: Born and raised in NYC. Was a full-time, original occupant in Battery Park City (across the street from WTC) for about three years, kept part-time digs there until the early 90's. I was married on the roof of 1 WTC, and my new bride managed to barf all over it when the building swayed in the wind unexpectedly (for her - I was quite used to it). Background discussion: I remember the early still-birth of WTC, and I remember it's completion (a non-thing if ever there was one). I vividly remember the pain that WTC brought to NYC with it's collossal footprint and complete disregard for everything that was not WTC. I remember the WTC community [Battery Park City] being born: White Flight and Nothing Else. WTC was, in spite of it's disregard for everything non-WTC, still a very New York kind of place. It's core was the Art of Stark Efficiency. From the design of the towers themselves to the layout of the cities beneath them, the place just screamed efficiency. No corner was unnecessarily adorned when the beauty of efficient use could make a statement on it's own behalf. Efficiency was *everywhere*: Path trains terminating New Jersey commuter runs in the basement; local (to WTC) police departments; food concourse layout which maximized retail space while minimizing walking to it; elevators which were sorted and laid out for best use of resources; interconnections of *everything* in a maze of tunneling that not even a drunk could get truly lost in... Obviously, a city so hell-bent on maximum-use and unadorned sterile efficiency would be offended by many of the proposed rebuilds. I know I am. Individual Projects: Project:Foster And Partners - The Weird Crystalline Cathedral Thing Assessment: Complete Loser From the very first moment in their slide show, you just *know* these guys are not from New York. Remember, on 9/11/2001, the very day of the actual collapse, every single New Yorker I know was already cracking jokes about the now defunct towers. This is not a city filled with a lot of tear jerking philosophical moments where the band strikes up a warm melody for you to cry over. This is the Efficiency Capitol Of The Universe, where dead towers need to be cleared out, NOW GODDAMNIT, because they are BLOCKING TRAFFIC. They start out with this big, well, *huge* dreary memorial that nobody in the city of New York is going to give a rats ass about (of course, the politicians will just love it all to hell and back). I'll even go as far as to predict that within five years of it's opening that memorial would specialize in muggings and rapes after 6:00pm. As we move on into our preview, we find this really strange growing-thing overlooking what seems to me to be a cheap imitation of the Vietnam Wall. The building itself is just *awful*: a kind of cross between a strand of DNA trying to grow into something useful, and an echo of the now DEAD towers trying to reassert their existence. Neither works. The original towers are dead - let it go. The Crystalline Catherdral begs us to make penance to it - to somehow go and seek it out for some kind of worship to the past. Again, neither of these work. New Yorkers are not likely to give a rats ass. In summation, the building itself has an intolerable ego, and the memorial is disgusting in it's pompous disregard for the facts of life in the city it is supposed to be *living* in. Project:SOM, SANAA, et al. - The Vertical City groans Assessment: Please take this project to Los Angelos, where it belongs. First, allow me to give credit where credit is really due here. This team has actually managed to capture what the WTC ended up becoming, although not what it was originally envisioned as being. That said, this project is, unfortunately, still a complete loss - may it rest in peace, FOREVER. Starting in slide 3 we get what this team is all about, with the quotation The city, as one finds it in history, is the point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community. And they'll be Goddamned if They are going to have to SHARE it with anyone outside of the [new] WTC. Yeah. Riiighhht... I hate to be the one to break the news to these guys, but one of the very few things that makes New York actually WORK, is the free and open dissemination of The Arts (whatever the hell that is). It's our ability to go wherever the hell
Manhattan Bldgs (RE: The Geodesic Economy:)
At 01:33 PM 12/29/02 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: I don't much like the Richard Meier (tictactoe) design. Its not a tictactoe or hollywood squares design ---those are gleaming white prison bars. A motif for the 21st century. -- Intended only for lawful uses. -HP Computer Advert
Many Worlds Version of Fermi Paradox
On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 01:18 PM, Jesse Mazer wrote: Hal Finney wrote: One correction, there are no known problems which take exponential time but which can be checked in polynomial time. If such a problem could be found it would prove that P != NP, one of the greatest unsolved problems in computability theory. Whoops, I've heard of the P=NP problem but I guess I was confused about what it meant. But there are some problems where candidate solutions can be checked much faster than new solutions can be generated, no? If you want to know whether a number can be factorized it's easy to check candidate factors, for example, although if the answer is that it cannot be factorized because the number is prime I guess there'd be no fast way to check if that answer is correct. Factoring is not known to be in NP (the so-called NP-complete class of problems...solve on in P time and you've solved them all!). The example I favor is the Hamiltonian cycle/circuit problem: find a path through a set of linked nodes (cities) which passes through each node once and only once. All of the known solutions to an arbitrary Hamiltonian cycle problem are exponential in time (in number of nodes). For example, for 5 cities there are at most 120 possible paths, so this is an easy one. But for 50 cities there are as many as 49!/2 possible paths (how many, exactly, depends on the links between the cities, with not every city having all possible links to other cities). For a mere 100 cities, the number of routes to consider is larger than the number of particles we believe to be in the universe. However, saying known solutions is not the same thing as we have proved that it takes exponential time. For all we know, now, in 2002, there are solutions not requiring exponential time (in # of cities). This is also somewhat relevant to theories of everything since we might want to ask if somewhere in the set of all possible universes there exists one where time travel is possible and computing power increases without bound. If the answer is yes, that might suggest that any TOE based on all possible computations is too small to accomodate a really general notion of all possible universes. And this general line of reasoning leads to a Many Worlds Version of the Fermi Paradox: Why aren't they here? The reason I lean toward the shut up and calculate or for all practical purposes interpretation of quantum mechanics is embodied in the above argument. IF the MWI universe branchings are at all communicatable-with, that is, at least _some_ of those universes would have very, very large amounts of power, computer power, numbers of people, etc. And some of them, if it were possible, would have communicated with us, colonized us, visited us, etc. This is a variant of the Fermi Paradox raised to a very high power. My conclusion is that the worlds of the MWI are not much different from Lewis' worlds with unicorns--possibly extant, but unreachable, and hence, operationally, no different from a single universe model. (I don't believe, necessarily, in certain forms of the Copenhagen Interpretation, especially anything about signals propagating instantaneously, just the quantum mechanics is about measurables ground truth of what we see, what has never failed us, what the mathematics tells us and what is experimentally verified. Whether there really are (in the modal realism sense of Lewis) other worlds is neither here nor there. Naturally, I would be thrilled to see evidence, or to conclude myself from deeper principles, that other worlds have more than linguistic existence.) --Tim May (.sig for Everything list background) Corralitos, CA. Born in 1951. Retired from Intel in 1986. Current main interest: category and topos theory, math, quantum reality, cosmology. Background: physics, Intel, crypto, Cypherpunks
Automakers Block Crash Data Recorders
Matt, In your Dec 23 piece http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/national/29CRAS.html you cited concerns that there might be privacy and legal issues regarding ownership of data acquired by their auto's recorders. I agree. If the industry adopts open standard between the senor and data recording subsystems the stage could be set for car owners to purchase after-market recorders which encrypt the data and keep it private, even in the face of subpoenas. I suspect those maintaining that this area of law is settled have either not thought this through are have an unspoken agenda. steve
