Re: Tasers for Cops Not You

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 01:20 PM 1/8/05 -0800, John Young wrote:
>However, Taser claims the civilian version is effective
>only to 15 feet while the LE version will explose a heart
>at 20 feet. And, Taser says "accidental deaths caused
>by the shock would have happened to those sick persons
>anyway."
>
>Well, yes, homicidal cops say the perps were begging for it,
>learning such talk from the president and up to the one who
>has fun with joy toy tsunamis.

John: A taser is > 50 KV and microamps.  Not fun but it
doesn't cause fibrillation.  (Incoherent cardiac muscle
contraction -> no pulse.)  I now work for a company that
makes defibrillators.  It takes a few 10s of Joules through
the heart to fibrillate, typically 100-200 J for an adult,
during a certain critical window during the sinus rhythm.
Our gizmos discharge ~200 uF at up to 2 KV to defibrillate
a fibrillating heart, which will also fibrillate if administered to a
healthy heart
at the wrong time, as I said.  That's up to 40 amps.  (Through the pads
a chest is 20-200 ohms, typically 50.)  Without
a defibrillator the person is dead, CPR or not.

That's the science.  As far as pigs wanting slaves/peasants/citizens
to be unarmed, well, agree.  As far as choke holds on negroes,
excessive force on cocaine-stimulated citizens, etc goes, I have
nothing to bear on this.  As far as banning lethal and nonlethal
weapons for use by all but state minions, we agree.

When tasers, mace, body armor, .50 cal or lesser rifles are outlawed,
well, you know
the rest.  (Of course mace is best applied with q-tips to the eyes of
sitting protesters.  And the mercenaries in Iraq do fine with
pillowcases and
12V batteries.)

Though heavens fall, let justice be done.

Re: [IP] The DNA round-up on Cape Cod (fwd from dave@farber.net

[Major Variola (ret)]

The Beast doesn't know who licked the stamp.  A fiducial sample is what
they want.

In Calif, they could merely arrest you for a bogus charge to have the
"right"
to sample your families DNA as carried by you.

Schwarzenegger is not Austrian accidentally.

GATTACA was optimistic.




At 06:02 PM 1/10/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>I live in the town of Truro on Cape Cod about 4 or 5 months out of the
year.
>This past week, the Truro has been on the national news because the
local
>police are attempting to obtain DNA samples of all men of the town in
order
>to solve a three-year old murder case.  Here are a couple of the
articles
>that give the details of what is going on in this DNA round-up:
>
>   To Try to Net Killer, Police Ask a Small Town's Men for DNA
>   http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/national/10cape.html
>
>   Truro abuzz over 'swab' DNA testing
>   http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/truroabuzz7.htm
>
>I am headed back to my Truro house later this week.  If I am approached
by
>the police to provide a DNA sample for their round-up of Truro males, I
am
>planning to refuse.  However, I just realized that I already gave a DNA

>sample to the Town of Truro recently.  I paid my property tax bill to
the
>Truro tax collectors office two weeks ago.  My DNA is on the tax
payment
>envelope that I licked.
>
>Envelopes are apparently a good source of DNA material according to
this
>article:
>
>   DNA on Envelope Reopens Decades-old Murder Case
>   http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_052103_dnaarrest.html
>
>Richard M. Smith
>http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
>
>
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expectation of privacy

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 09:01 PM 1/12/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>It's time to blow the lid off this "no expectation of privacy in
>public places" argument that judges and law enforcement now spout out
>like demented parrots in so many situations.

A court refused to hear the case of a man accused of owning unlicensed
pharmaceuticals when a pig entered a locked loo.  The loo was part
of a gas station; the attendant called the pigs.  A prostitute was
in there too, with him, and the area rife with folks of that profession,
FWIW,
which is nothing.  But the court held reduced expectation of privacy in
a public loo.

One imagines much fun with anonymous calls when state employees
are in such places, but this does not temper our disgust, or desire for
karma
with extreme prejudice.

Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote:

>I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as

>if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of "terrorist web
sites",
being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I couldn't read the language.

But government and its presses know best.

To Tyler Durden

[Major Variola (ret)]

TD,
I just watched _Fight Club_ so I finally get your nym.  (Here in
low-earth geosynchronous orbit, content is delayed).  Cool.
I had thought it was your real name.

Maj. Variola (ret)

RE: To Tyler Durden

[Tyler Durden]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT! THIS IS MY REAL NAME GODDAMMIT!!!
Wait, I'm getting sleepy...gotta take a nap...
-TD


From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: To Tyler Durden
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:02:14 -0800
TD,
I just watched _Fight Club_ so I finally get your nym.  (Here in
low-earth geosynchronous orbit, content is delayed).  Cool.
I had thought it was your real name.
Maj. Variola (ret)

Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

[John Kelsey]

>From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Jan 10, 2005 7:35 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Ready, Aim, ID Check: In Wrong Hands, Gun Won't Fire

..
>Some gun "accidents" are suicides reported as such to avoid
>embarrassment to the family.  

I've heard this from other people, too--some in reasonably good positions to 
know how such things were reported.  And there's surely some ambiguity between 
fatal accidents caused by doing something really stupid and intentional 
suicides.  

..

--John

Re: Ridge Wants Fingerprints in Passports

[Bill Stewart]

He's smearing his sticky fingerprints all over everything else,
and now he wants them in our passports?
Oughtta learn to keep his hands to himself.


Bill Stewart  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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Re: Florida man faces bioweapon charge

[Eric Cordian]

RAH pastes:

..

> Steven Michael Ekberg, 22, had at least 83 castor beans and other
> byproducts consistent with the manufacture of ricin in his possession, the
> FBI said.

..

> They said they also found, in a cardboard box in Ekberg's room, glass vials
> containing white granules suspected of being husk-less, chopped castor
> beans, a byproduct of the manufacture of ricin.

I'm confused here.  Is possession of castor beans possession of ricin?  
Is possession of chopped castor beans possession of ricin?

> He then picked up another container and stated words to the effect, "This
> would make you really sick," the source allegedly told authorities.

I could pick up a container of Drano, and make the same commment.  Big 
deal.

> The source told police that Ekberg had two books containing information on
> how to make poisons from household chemicals and plants, according to the
> affidavit.

Still legal to own, as far as I know.

> His mother, Theresa Ekberg, told the FBI that he has been treated for
> depression, according to the affidavit.

> His mother also told authorities that in the past her son had possessed
> some "chemicals."

> She said that on at least one occasion he showed her something he had
> purchased via the Internet and expressed concern that if their cat
> inadvertently ate enough of it, the cat would die, according to the
> affidavit.

Obviously this news story is the grand prize winner in an innuendo 
contest.

> The FBI is still investigating who sent two letters that contained ricin in
> 2003 through the U.S. postal system. Those letters contained threats and
> complaints about labor regulations in the trucking industry.

> In 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian writer and journalist in London, died
> after a man attacked him with an umbrella that had been rigged to inject a
> ricin pellet under his skin.

And WTF does this have to do with the guy with the castor beans?

Looks like "Ricin Theatre" has joined "Anthrax Theatre" in the armory of 
Weapons of Mass Deception.

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