Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-26 Thread Eugene Leitl

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Black Unicorn wrote:

 I would be amused to see one of these cloistered techies in a real
 encounter with police, who recognize that the best legal argument they

The only serious encounter I would risk with anything, is by means of
anonymized (including resistance to trace analysis) physical proxy. So the
threshold is pretty high.

Who do you think we are, marines?





Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-24 Thread Black Unicorn


- Original Message - 
From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Black Unicorn' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:17 AM
Subject: RE: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)


  From: Black Unicorn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  
  Exercise your right to free speech.  Do it carefully.
  
 Use a spotter, protective equipment, and 
 enlist a trained coach.

Translate as:

Use a lawyer, anonymous remailer, and enlist a PR expert.

Good advice in either example.





RE: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-24 Thread Trei, Peter



 --
 From: Black Unicorn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 
 Exercise your right to free speech.  Do it carefully.
 
Use a spotter, protective equipment, and 
enlist a trained coach.

Do warm up exercises first  :-)

Peter






Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-24 Thread Jim Choate


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Black Unicorn wrote:

 Translate as:
 
 Use a lawyer, anonymous remailer, and enlist a PR expert.
 
 Good advice in either example.

That's pretty constrained 'free speech'.


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Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-22 Thread Jim Choate


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:

 On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:39:06PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
  An unconstitutional law. A law which limits freedom in a country which is
  ultimately governed by Congress shall make no law...
  
  If you can't catch that clue, there is no hope.
 
 The interesting thing in this case is that Dmitry was not arrested for
 discussing or revealing information about Adobe's arguably-sucky copy
 protection system. If you read the FBI affidavit
 (http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sklyarov.htm), you'll note that the FBI
 seems only concerned about his commercial activities:

[ ... ]

 That's because the DMCA only makes commercial circumvention a crime:
 
  (a) In general. -- Any person who violates section 1201 or 1202
  willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
  financial gain,

Wrong. See that phrase 'private financial gain'? 

That means that any(!!!) activity, private or commercial, which reduces
the cash flow INTO the corporation is a legitimate target. So simply
talking about it is most definitely a crime. So, while in this case they
may not have decided to go this route, the route is still there.


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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Tesla be, and all was light.

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Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-22 Thread Jim Choate


On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Seth Finkelstein wrote:

   While this is true, there's a very deep issue in the
 definition of protected.

No there isn't, it's just that '...no law...' is onconvenient for people
who believe they are angels among men:

 Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

 The problem is better rendered that the courts have taken the view that the 
 protection of (intellectual) *property rights* trumps the free-speech 
 concerns here.

The problem is that courts believe they can interpret the constitution
instead of as actually worded, being limited to laws made 'under' the
constutition.

A major distinction.


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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, Let Tesla be, and all was light.

  B.A. Behrend

   The Armadillo Group   ,::;::-.  James Choate
   Austin, Tx   /:'/ ``::/|/  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   www.ssz.com.',  `/( e\  512-451-7087
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Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-22 Thread Sampo Syreeni

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Reese wrote:

Just my 2 cents (after about 12 beers...)

A little crazy?  No.  A lot drunk.  Take two aspirin with the handful of
clue pills, you'll need them.

Besides, being drunk is no excuse for beind stupid. I mean, I boast a good
in-excess-of-1-per-mille alcohol intoxication at the moment, and still
manage to write in a relatively rational manner. Being drunk does *not* mean
one is exempt from displaying manners, or that one can safely switch off
one's intellect.

Then, if one really can't cope with drugs as strong as alcohol, but still
wants take them, sure. One just shouldn't be surprised if that leads to
behavior one might regret later.

He really does seem to need a clue pill.

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], gsm: +358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front




Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-22 Thread Jim Choate


On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

 Exercise your right to free speech.  Do it carefully.
 
 Not carefully. Wisely.

And what pray tell is 'wisely'?



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Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Petro

At 8:23 PM -0400 7/20/01, GeEk wrote:
Just wondering (because maybe you don't live in the US). But why are you
all gonna protest because some Russian got arrested for breaking the law??
\

Probably because he got arrested on American Soil, by American Cops for 
breaking an American law while living and working in Russia. 

It also happens to be a law that many disagree with.

Clear things up for you? 

(note, trimmed the CC line)





Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Declan McCullagh

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:39:06PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
 An unconstitutional law. A law which limits freedom in a country which is
 ultimately governed by Congress shall make no law...
 
 If you can't catch that clue, there is no hope.

The interesting thing in this case is that Dmitry was not arrested for
discussing or revealing information about Adobe's arguably-sucky copy
protection system. If you read the FBI affidavit
(http://cryptome.org/usa-v-sklyarov.htm), you'll note that the FBI
seems only concerned about his commercial activities:

 Diaz affirmed that he believes the Elcomsoft Software program, coupled
 with the Elcomsoft unlocking key, circumvents protection afforded by a
 technological measure developed by Adobe for its Acrobat eBook Reader
 either by avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactiviating, or otherwise
 impairing the technological measure.

 I believe Dmitry Sklyarov, employee of Elcomsoft and the individual
 listed on the Elcomsoft software products as the copyright holder of
 the program sold and produced by Elcomsoft, known as the Advanced
 eBook Processor, has willfully and for financial gain (etc.)

That's because the DMCA only makes commercial circumvention a crime:

 (a) In general. -- Any person who violates section 1201 or 1202
 willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
 financial gain, (1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or
 imprisoned for not more than 5 years or both, for the first offense

Non-commercial circumvention may, of course, be a civil offense, as 2600
found out in the New York case brought by the movie studios.

This state of affairs creates a mild problem (to go back to the recent
topic of discussion on cypherpunks) for those who strongly believe in
the First Amendment when applied to nonprofit or not-for-profit speech
but less so when it comes to speech that's part of a commercial
transaction.

For instance, a guy ranting on Usenet, they say, should have free
speech rights, but the tobacco companies or pharmaceutical companies
can properly be muzzled. Let's hope Dmitry, a budding capitalist,
doesn't fall into that same commercial-speech-can-be-regulated
catchall.

-Declan




Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Seth David Schoen

Declan McCullagh writes:

 That's because the DMCA only makes commercial circumvention a crime:
 
  (a) In general. -- Any person who violates section 1201 or 1202
  willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private
  financial gain, (1) shall be fined not more than $500,000 or
  imprisoned for not more than 5 years or both, for the first offense
 
 Non-commercial circumvention may, of course, be a civil offense, as 2600
 found out in the New York case brought by the movie studios.
 
 This state of affairs creates a mild problem (to go back to the recent
 topic of discussion on cypherpunks) for those who strongly believe in
 the First Amendment when applied to nonprofit or not-for-profit speech
 but less so when it comes to speech that's part of a commercial
 transaction.
 
 For instance, a guy ranting on Usenet, they say, should have free
 speech rights, but the tobacco companies or pharmaceutical companies
 can properly be muzzled. Let's hope Dmitry, a budding capitalist,
 doesn't fall into that same commercial-speech-can-be-regulated
 catchall.

I agree, and I fear that this is why StreamBox settled in the _Real
Networks v. Streambox_ case.  They didn't necessarily feel optimistic
that their commercial speech would be protected in the view of the
courts.  The outcome of that case is certainly troubling for this one.
For those who don't want to protest Adobe on Monday, why don't you go 
protest Real Networks?  Goodness knows they could use it. :-)

Streambox VCR is useful in some of the same ways as AEBPR, although
there are perhaps more legal uses for AEBPR and more illegal uses for
Streambox VCR.  They are both proprietary commercial software and many
people do argue that there is a free speech right to sell them (as
there is a free speech right to sell books!).  But it would be more
immediately obvious if they were free/open source.

Unfortunately, courts already seem to have a hard enough time
believing that electronic publication of free/open source software is
protected by the first amendment.

-- 
Seth David Schoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]  | And do not say, I will study when I
Temp.  http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/  | have leisure; for perhaps you will
down:  http://www.loyalty.org/   (CAF)  | not have leisure.  -- Pirke Avot 2:5




Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Seth Finkelstein

Declan McCullagh wrote:
 This state of affairs creates a mild problem (to go back to the recent
 topic of discussion on cypherpunks) for those who strongly believe in
 the First Amendment when applied to nonprofit or not-for-profit speech
 but less so when it comes to speech that's part of a commercial
 transaction.

Heck, Declan, as far as I recall, you don't believe
that the First Amendment applies to people who merely REPEAT
(for profit) too many words you originally wrote as
speech that's part of a certain commercial transaction
(i.e. copyrighted articles, which you are paid for). 
In fact, I can't look this up now, but I believe you've
posted to the cypherpunks list on this very topic
in the past. You want the government to punish people
who simply say too many words that you originally said.
Isn't that very inconsistent philosophically for you?

By the way, as you know, this distinction is
enshrined in copyright law:
   
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html

Sec. 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether 
  such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit 
  educational purposes; 

 Let's hope Dmitry, a budding capitalist, doesn't fall
 into that same commercial-speech-can-be-regulated catchall.

But Declan, as a Libertarian proselytizer. how can you
justify making your living from a government-granted monopoly
which infringes on free speech?

Note the above is not necessarily my view. But if you
are going to try to use this tragedy to recruit people for silly
Libertarian ideology, I think consistency demands you apply the
same argument to your articles too. Have you changed your views
on this topic since I last saw them discussed?

--
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html




Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Morlock Elloi

   Adobe- owing to the kidnapping of its big wig some time ago- is very
   paranoid.
   
   Please be aware and be cautious as they may be prone to overreact to
   taunting.
   
   (Do not taunt happy-fun-acrobat).
  
  This looks like a joke.  If so, it is really hilarious, but otherwise
  sorry.
 
 Unfortunately it's not.

So Adobe thugs will pour out of the building sprayng crowd with machine-gun
fire ? Corporate commandos will make arrests and cart them to software
sweatshops ?

What exactly peaceful banner-carrying demonstrators on the public grounds
should be afraid of ?
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Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Seth Finkelstein

Seth David Schoen wrote:
 Unfortunately, courts already seem to have a hard enough time
 believing that electronic publication of free/open source software is
 protected by the first amendment.

While this is true, there's a very deep issue in the
definition of protected. The problem is better rendered that
the courts have taken the view that the protection of
(intellectual) *property rights* trumps the free-speech concerns
here. There's a very revealing paragraph in the DeCSS decision
concerning this:

Thus, even if one accepted defendants' argument that the
anti-trafficking prohibition of the DMCA is content based because it
regulates only code that expresses the programmer's ideas for
circumventing access control measures, the question would remain
whether such code--code designed to circumvent measures controlling
access to private or legally protected data--nevertheless could be
regulated on the basis of that content.  For the reasons set forth in
the text, the Court concludes that it may.  Alternatively, even if
such a categorical or definitional approach were eschewed, the Court
would uphold the application of the DMCA now before it on the ground
that this record establishes an imminent threat of danger flowing from
^^
dissemination of DeCSS that far outweighs the need for unfettered
^
communication of that program.  See Landmark Communications,
^
Inc. v. Virginia, 435 U.S. 829, 842-43 (1978).

-- 
Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html




Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Ray Dillinger

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Morlock Elloi wrote:

So Adobe thugs will pour out of the building sprayng crowd with machine-gun
fire ? Corporate commandos will make arrests and cart them to software
sweatshops ?

What exactly peaceful banner-carrying demonstrators on the public grounds
should be afraid of ?

The police, and possibly military presence, responding to Adobe 
executives panicked calls that they are under attack by an armed 
mob of anarchists bent on the utter destruction of our building 
and grounds and possibly the murder of our employees and executives... 

Adobe security guys behind a window on the third floor of the 
building, scanning the crowd with a high-resolution camera, and 
the $MILLIONS they are willing to spend to hire a private investigator 
to find out who each and every one of the people in the picture is 
so that police complaints can be filed against each and every one, 
and charges brought for criminal trespass, even if it takes months
And of course the money spent tracking them all down will be on the 
bill of damages they try to recover

Illegal sweetheart deals that have been worked out with police 
officials and/or private security whereby they've pretty much agreed 
in advance that if Adobe puts out the right codeword, a bunch of 
muscular men in riot gear will show up to HURT the attackers - 
this could involve the deployment of tear gas or pepper spray.

Miscellaneous water cannon, rubber bullets, and, worst of 
all, thundering herds of lawyers both for attack and defense.
I'm pretty sure attack dogs are effectively banned in California 
due to astronomical liability settlements, but otherwise you'd 
have to worry about that.

Make no mistake, an american company with a really paranoid bent 
can make life sheer hell for any who have the temerity to show 
up protesting on its grounds. 

It costs them a lot of goodwill though -- if they pull out all 
the stops more than once every few years, it's going to seriously 
hurt their reputation and their business.

I doubt that Adobe will go the whole route here: I bet they'll go 
as far as meeting the protesters with a full cordon of armed law  
officers, but if things stay peaceful, the two groups will probably 
be able to just stand a respectful distance apart and wave at each 
other politely.  They'll probably scan the crowd with a high-res 
camera, but probably won't bother to file charges unless someone 
throws a rock or something. And we're not likely to see water cannon 
or pepper spray used unless someone actually gets inside one of the 
buildings.

Bear




Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-21 Thread Declan McCullagh

At 11:09 AM 7/21/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
And the FBI identifies him as the copyright holder.

What would they have done if a group[1] was listed after the (C)?
[1] registered corporation, anonymous coders, anonymous registered
corporation (?) etc.

Your guess is as good as mine, and I'll defer to the criminal lawyers here, 
if there are any. My suspicion: In truly criminal enterprises, I suspect 
they'd go after the officers of the corporation. But in practice 
trafficking is a broad prohibition, and the Feds will arrest anyone 
involved who sets foot in the U.S.

-Declan




Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-21 Thread Black Unicorn


- Original Message -
From: Subcommander Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday

Black Unicorn Scribed:

Adobe- owing to the kidnapping of its big wig some time ago- is
   very  paranoid.
   
Please be aware and be cautious as they may be prone to overreact
to taunting.
   
(Do not taunt happy-fun-acrobat).

Someone answered:

   This looks like a joke.  If so, it is really hilarious, but
   otherwise sorry.

I replied:

  Unfortunately it's not.

 At 10:03 AM 7/21/01 -0700, Morlock Elloi replied:

 So Adobe thugs will pour out of the building sprayng crowd with
 machine-gun fire ? Corporate commandos will make arrests and
 cart them to software sweatshops ?
 
 What exactly peaceful banner-carrying demonstrators on the public
 grounds should be afraid of ?

Quite a lot actually.

This is why I like most cypherpunks.  They have the most charming naiveté
about the real world.  It's quaint.  I see it most often in their
propensity to argue to most obscure technical-legal points with the full
expectation that a judge isn't just going to say that's specious
counselor, have any real arguments?  I love hearing things like: Well if
I just have the micromint transfer all its money to itself first then
that's legally a transaction, right? or I'm not transferring the e-gold
to the user, I'm transferring it to his key, so there are no taxes! or
Sorry your honor, I used key splitting to put the key in 4 jurisdictions
so I can't recover the critical financial data under subpoena.  Now you
have to send me home.  Hee hee!

The second most frequent expression of this kind of sheltered thinking is
in the political-societal belief that there is no such thing as street
justice in the United States and that officers aren't prone to poke the
odd protestor with a nightstick in any country except Mexico or India or
the Middle East or some other far away and out of sight place.  But this
is AMERICA! or But I'm an AMERICAN!  Good morning.  How was your sleep?

I would be amused to see one of these cloistered techies in a real
encounter with police, who recognize that the best legal argument they have
on the street is a good whack to opposing counsel's head and that about the
most serious ramifications of this might be that the protestor gets off
scott free after 48 hours in holding with the gang bangers.

It's pretty easy to get arrested in a protest situation.  Life is
manifestly unfair to arrestees.  You decide what you want to do about it.

Adobe is a large and influential company in the Valley.  It may very well
be responsible for getting the Commissioner of Labor in California removed
from office simply because they disagreed with his ruling on forced
vacations for their employees.

Adobe's co-founder is easily spooked and Adobe has had it's run-ins with
violence before.  This event is well publicized and Adobe knows its coming.
Draw your own conclusions about how Adobe might prepare.  What would you do
in Adobe's place?  (I know you are suddenly tempted to come up with a witty
reply.  It's a rhetorical question, smartass).

Here is an article on the kidnapping of Adobe co-founder Chuck Geschke:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/latc/arch/9742/Exclusiv/1adobe/1adobe.html

An excerpt:
It was supposed to be a normal day at the office for Adobe Systems
president Charles Chuck Geschke when he pulled into the parking lot of
his Mountain View headquarters on May 26, 1992. Instead, his kidnapping at
gunpoint by two Arabic men began a five-day nightmare in which Geschke was
blindfolded and unaware of his location. His frantic family, in the
meantime, enlisted the help of the FBI in a search that was the biggest of
its kind since the kidnapping of Patti Hearst. Chuck's rescue was triggered
by daughter Kathy's drop-off of ransom money and her negotiations with the
captors. The news of the kidnapping made headlines all over the world. The
family, still, has not fully recovered from the emotional harm.

[...]

To this day, [Chuck] still has flashbacks when he drives into a parking lot
void of cars or people. And he has replayed his capture dozens of times,
both during and after captivity, questioning his decision to obey the armed
stranger.

The nightmares, which continue to this day, were just the start of a whole
new deck of fears the family had to deal with once they returned to Los
Altos after their month retreat. Chuck's insecurities about his safety
invaded all aspects of his life. The 6-foot, 1-inch, 220-pound Chuck now
scares easily.

I see someone walking or parking in front of the house and I try to notice
if there is anything suspicious about it. I never, never had that feeling
ever in my life before. I've always been a very open person, never felt any
physical fear of any kind, he said.

end excerpt.

Following the kidnapping Adobe made such substantial changes to security
that employees jokingly, and not so

Re: Adobe's Teeth. (Was: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday)

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Schear

At 01:43 PM 7/21/2001 -0700, Black Unicorn wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Subcommander Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Re: Rallies on Monday
  What exactly peaceful banner-carrying demonstrators on the public
  grounds should be afraid of ?

Quite a lot actually.

This is why I like most cypherpunks.  They have the most charming naiveti
about the real world.  It's quaint.  I see it most often in their
propensity to argue to most obscure technical-legal points with the full
expectation that a judge isn't just going to say that's specious
counselor, have any real arguments?  I love hearing things like: Well if
I just have the micromint transfer all its money to itself first then
that's legally a transaction, right? or I'm not transferring the e-gold
to the user, I'm transferring it to his key, so there are no taxes! or
Sorry your honor, I used key splitting to put the key in 4 jurisdictions
so I can't recover the critical financial data under subpoena.  Now you
have to send me home.  Hee hee!

The second most frequent expression of this kind of sheltered thinking is
in the political-societal belief that there is no such thing as street
justice in the United States and that officers aren't prone to poke the
odd protestor with a nightstick in any country except Mexico or India or
the Middle East or some other far away and out of sight place.  But this
is AMERICA! or But I'm an AMERICAN!  Good morning.  How was your sleep?

I would be amused to see one of these cloistered techies in a real
encounter with police, who recognize that the best legal argument they have
on the street is a good whack to opposing counsel's head and that about the
most serious ramifications of this might be that the protestor gets off
scott free after 48 hours in holding with the gang bangers.

It's pretty easy to get arrested in a protest situation.  Life is
manifestly unfair to arrestees.  You decide what you want to do about it.

A lesson not lost of The Founders, many who paid with their lives and their 
fortunes even if they did keep their sacred honor.  Even if you are 
non-violently demonstrating BU is correct that you still may pay a heavy 
price.  You need to decide before you demonstrate: how important this issue 
you're protesting is, how far you're willing to take your protests and what 
you may be risking in doing so.  Then make preparations accordingly.

All Western countries fear losing the support of their middle class, tax 
paying, citizens. To the extent that the Vietnam demonstrations succeeded 
it was because they were able to elicit police riots in response to what 
many felt were mostly non-violent (if not legal) demonstrations and swing 
public opinion.  Of course, the release of the Pentagon Papers, which 
credibly confirmed \what many of the demonstrators had been saying of U.S. 
goals and involvement in S.E. Asia, didn't hurt either.

steve




Rallies on Monday

2001-07-20 Thread Len Sassaman

http://www.boycottadobe.com/pages/rallies.html

is now the home for the rally announcements. If you're planning on
attending one, please visit this page for info. If you're holding one,
please let us know so we can add it to the page.

Thanks!

--

Len Sassaman

Security Architect|
Technology Consultant |  Let be be finale of seem.
  |
http://sion.quickie.net   |   --Wallace Stevens













Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-20 Thread Black Unicorn

Note:

Adobe- owing to the kidnapping of its big wig some time ago- is very
paranoid.

Please be aware and be cautious as they may be prone to overreact to
taunting.

(Do not taunt happy-fun-acrobat).

- Original Message -
From: Len Sassaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:39 PM
Subject: Rallies on Monday


 http://www.boycottadobe.com/pages/rallies.html

 is now the home for the rally announcements. If you're planning on
 attending one, please visit this page for info. If you're holding one,
 please let us know so we can add it to the page.

 Thanks!

 --

 Len Sassaman

 Security Architect|
 Technology Consultant |  Let be be finale of seem.
   |
 http://sion.quickie.net   |   --Wallace Stevens





Rallies on Monday

2001-07-20 Thread Len Sassaman

http://www.boycottadobe.com/pages/rallies.html

is now the home for the rally announcements. If you're planning on
attending one, please visit this page for info. If you're holding one,
please let us know so we can add it to the page.

Thanks!

--

Len Sassaman

Security Architect|
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Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-20 Thread Jim Choate


On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, GeEk wrote:
 
 Just wondering (because maybe you don't live in the US). But why are you
 all gonna protest because some Russian got arrested for breaking the law??

An unconstitutional law. A law which limits freedom in a country which is
ultimately governed by Congress shall make no law...

If you can't catch that clue, there is no hope.

 Don't you have anything better to do with you're time???

It isn't 'my time' in the above situation, I've gotta go ask my master
before I can answer your question. It is however a nicely gilded cage.

 (this isn't a flame but if that's how you want to take it be my guest,
 just wondering why we are soo concerned about some russian.. the
 principle?? If you want to protest something why not put you're effort
 into blowing open the Gary Condit fuck up... )

No accounting for taste.

 I mean this ass hole fucked some Intern and then killed her... maybe I'm a
 little crazy here (which I have been told oftern that I am) but that seems
 a hell of a lot more important then some fucking Commie.

If you got proof, run with it...nobody else seems to have any proof.

 Just my 2 cents (after about 12 beers...)

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Re: Rallies on Monday

2001-07-20 Thread GeEk


Reese,

I know there are things about the U.S govt that you can't or aren't
willing to understand. And if you really have such a small Brain that you
can't see Condit is part of the murder then I really have nothing more to
say to you.. once day you will learn more about the Media their filters,
politics and Money... untill then continue to flame people for your
ignorance.

I won't respond to any more of you're flames.. I know the truth and if you
really belelive that me calling into the D.C police or anyone for that
matter is really going to mean anything you might want to reevaluate
your understanding of how the System works... it is't as it seems not
even close..




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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Reese wrote:

 At 02:23 PM 7/20/01, dumbGeEk wrote:

  into blowing open the Gary Condit fuck up... )
  
  I mean this ass hole fucked some Intern and then killed her...

 Your proof that he killed her?  You've shared it with the D.C. police
 I take it?  Condit is in custody now?  Or should we downgrade this
 fantastically strong assertion to just your wild assed guess, and send
 the nice young men in clean white coats after you, to check you out?

  maybe I'm a
  little crazy here (which I have been told oftern that I am) but that seems
  a hell of a lot more important then some fucking Commie.

 Anyone who cannot distinguish between Russian citizens who were victims
 under communism and Communists deserves to be treated like a Communist.
 You need more than two clue pills.

  Just my 2 cents (after about 12 beers...)

 A little crazy?  No.  A lot drunk.  Take two aspirin with the handful of
 clue pills, you'll need them.

 Oh, this is the last time I'm going to leave your To: and Cc: includes
 intact.  If you don't have the style, grace or courtesy to send separate
 emails to different lists, you deserve the hangover you should wake up
 with and 10,000 more all at once too.  Fuckhead.

 Reese