Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-12 Thread Keith Addison

Hi MM

 There you go - a hacker in sheeple's clothing, LOL! You're certainly
 no slave, MM. I wonder if the real slaves aren't the people at the
 top of the ladder, the ones who think they're in control - such as
 Kenneth Lay, hopeless failures at life, what a waste.

thx, and an interesting take on Lay.

... et al. Are these people really to be considered successful human 
beings? It seems to me they'll just have to come back and try again. 
Perhaps as a cockroach. My friend Prema, a Tibetan Buddhist nun, once 
remarked rather conversationally: It's not often a person gets the 
chance to live a human life, it's quite rare, one shouldn't waste 
such an opportunity. :-)

 Hack:
 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html
 
 Hacker:
 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html

I see a problem here that I did not see before.  The term cracker,
which is what hackers are recommending we use when we wish to connote
hacker gone to the dark side or some such, has some slight built-in
vernacular ambiguities.  Is one talking about a safe cracker?  Is one
trying to connote drug use?  (Crack cocaine).  Is there some sort of
racist ambiguity?  (I'm not sure why but I seem to recall cracker
being some sort of racial epithet from one of the races to another).

White trash.

Maybe there could be a new term for a malicious hacker.  Or maybe just
get better at using cracker.  Yeah, that sounds ok now that I think it
through a little.  We'll see.

Should be, if it gets used enough. The wonderful Jargon Lexicon gets 
into the background as usual - only back to Shakespeare this time, 
LOL! Looks like what King John called a cracker one would call an AH 
these days.

cracker n.

One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in 
defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An 
earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981-82 on 
Usenet was largely a failure.

Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the 
theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. The neologism 
cracker in this sense may have been influenced not so much by the 
term safe-cracker as by the non-jargon term cracker, which in 
Middle English meant an obnoxious person (e.g., What cracker is 
this same that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous 
breath? - Shakespeare's King John, Act II, Scene I) and in modern 
colloquial American English survives as a barely gentler synonym for 
white trash.

While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some 
playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past 
larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except 
for immediate, benign, practical reasons (for example, if it's 
necessary to get around some security in order to get some work 
done).

Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom 
than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might 
expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive 
groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture 
this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe 
themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate 
and lower form of life.

Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't 
imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than 
breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing. Some other 
reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on 
cracking and phreaking. See also samurai, dark-side hacker, and 
hacker ethic. For a portrait of the typical teenage cracker, see 
warez d00dz

That's right, blame it all on the press. :-)

 Hacking's similar to fettling - all the old factories used to have a
 fettler, when the machines broke he'd come and do a quick-fix so
 they'd work and production could continue until the engineers could
 get around to doing a proper repair job. A good fettler was highly
 skilled and very ingenious.

I had some tailoring done this week, and it just reminded me of how
certain occupations are terribly useful and may well be with us even a
million years from now.  One thing is it reminded me that even on Star
Trek they have Tailors 300 years into the future (though no barbers
prominently featured that I saw anyway).

I knew some people in Hong Kong who'd fled the Communist victory in 
1949 with literally nothing. (Unlike the poor Shanghai industrialists 
who arrived destitute and penniless with nothing but a few 
container-loads of gold...) Two come to mind. One, the editor of a 
Chinese newspaper when I knew him, did bring something, a set of 
Chinese chessmen and a board - not bulky, Chinese chess is different, 
the pieces are more like checkers pieces, round, flat disks, and the 
board is a piece of printed paper, it all easily fits in a pocket. He 
made a good living playing chess to all comers in the parks, with 
onlookers taking bets and him getting 

Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-12 Thread Kim Garth Travis

see inserted comments

murdoch wrote:


 I see a problem here that I did not see before.  The term cracker,
 which is what hackers are recommending we use when we wish to connote
 hacker gone to the dark side or some such, has some slight built-in
 vernacular ambiguities.  

TLC had a  program on hackers, last night.  They called them white hats 
and black hats, or criminals and angels.  They had Captain Zap on the 
show, he loves getting paid to hack, nowadays.

 I had some tailoring done this week, and it just reminded me of how
 certain occupations are terribly useful and may well be with us even a
 million years from now.  One thing is it reminded me that even on Star
 Trek they have Tailors 300 years into the future (though no barbers
 prominently featured that I saw anyway).

You missed Mr. Mott?  A blue skinned alien who loves to explain how the 
Enterprise should be run.  Riker says: 'well yeah, he has a lot to say, 
but he can really cut hair.'

Bright Blessings,
Kim


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Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-12 Thread murdoch

I see a problem here that I did not see before.  The term cracker,
which is what hackers are recommending we use when we wish to connote
hacker gone to the dark side or some such, has some slight built-in
vernacular ambiguities.  Is one talking about a safe cracker?  Is one
trying to connote drug use?  (Crack cocaine).  Is there some sort of
racist ambiguity?  (I'm not sure why but I seem to recall cracker
being some sort of racial epithet from one of the races to another).

White trash.

Maybe there could be a new term for a malicious hacker.  Or maybe just
get better at using cracker.  Yeah, that sounds ok now that I think it
through a little.  We'll see.

Should be, if it gets used enough. The wonderful Jargon Lexicon gets 
into the background as usual - only back to Shakespeare this time, 
LOL! Looks like what King John called a cracker one would call an AH 
these days.

Yes, it's LOL, but it would help explain why so many of the supposedly
clueless (and many are not) are reluctant to use the word cracker
and distinguish between that and hacker.


cracker n.

One who breaks security on a system. Coined ca. 1985 by hackers in 
defense against journalistic misuse of hacker (q.v., sense 8). An 
earlier attempt to establish `worm' in this sense around 1981-82 on 
Usenet was largely a failure.

Use of both these neologisms reflects a strong revulsion against the 
theft and vandalism perpetrated by cracking rings. The neologism 
cracker in this sense may have been influenced not so much by the 
term safe-cracker as by the non-jargon term cracker, which in 
Middle English meant an obnoxious person (e.g., What cracker is 
this same that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous 
breath? - Shakespeare's King John, Act II, Scene I) and in modern 
colloquial American English survives as a barely gentler synonym for 
white trash.

While it is expected that any real hacker will have done some 
playful cracking and knows many of the basic techniques, anyone past 
larval stage is expected to have outgrown the desire to do so except 
for immediate, benign, practical reasons (for example, if it's 
necessary to get around some security in order to get some work 
done).

It is asking a lot of non-involved folks to make these laborious
distinctions if it's even *expected* that a real hacker *will have
done some benign cracking*.  This is not just a matter of
sensationalistic journalists at fault.  Hackers are going to have to
do better than that, if they wish the entire world to make these
laborious distinctions.

Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom 
than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might 
expect. Crackers tend to gather in small, tight-knit, very secretive 
groups that have little overlap with the huge, open poly-culture 
this lexicon describes; though crackers often like to describe 
themselves as hackers, most true hackers consider them a separate 
and lower form of life.

Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't 
imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than 
breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing. Some other 
reasons crackers are looked down on are discussed in the entries on 
cracking and phreaking. See also samurai, dark-side hacker, and 
hacker ethic. For a portrait of the typical teenage cracker, see 
warez d00dz

That's right, blame it all on the press. :-)

I understood pretty much all these distinctions before reading this,
and I still have not made up my mind as to which terms I will use
going forward.

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Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-11 Thread Keith Addison

 it isn't everyone, not by a very long way, nor ever will be. When
 you have a closer look, maybe it's not quite like that even with the
 slaves. Some people talk of sheeple. Fine critters, sheep, and
 not that dumb either (Judas goats notwithstanding). I always find
 that rather patronizing and arrogant. (No, I'm not accusing you of
 that at all.) I find myself asking, What makes you think you're so
 different?

FWIW: I fit not completely distant from Curtis's definition of a
slave, financially, (with a couple of twists) and I also view myself
as a hacker, by a broad definition insofar as hacking can, in some
slang, mean more than hacking via programming or via computer, and it
can mean more than trying to mess with some one person or company's
private affairs and-or more than doing anything illegal.  It's not
something I'd expect others to agree with, I just see myself that way
sometimes.

There you go - a hacker in sheeple's clothing, LOL! You're certainly 
no slave, MM. I wonder if the real slaves aren't the people at the 
top of the ladder, the ones who think they're in control - such as 
Kenneth Lay, hopeless failures at life, what a waste.

Hack:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html

Hacker:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html

And much more. Interesting that it says: hacker: originally, someone 
who makes furniture with an axe. That's about the same as a bodger, 
quite a skill, and a very useful forest occupation. Now bodge means 
to screw it up. Swedes still make furniture with an axe, and there's 
nothing rough-and-ready about it, it's fine work.

Hacking's similar to fettling - all the old factories used to have a 
fettler, when the machines broke he'd come and do a quick-fix so 
they'd work and production could continue until the engineers could 
get around to doing a proper repair job. A good fettler was highly 
skilled and very ingenious.

Fettle: as a verb, means to repair; to smoothe; as an adjective, it 
means well-knit, all right and tight. It is connected with our word 
feat, the French faire, the Latin facere.

No use I suppose, nobody knows what it means anymore.

 that the opposite works even better - appealing to the best in people
 very often brings it out, and you don't go broke doing it either, not
 necessarily.

I do agree with this, it's just tough to get to and find the spot to
do it, and to figure out what it is to appeal to and how to do it.

Well, how do you deal with your friends?

When I first went to Hong Kong the newspapers were obsequeous. 
Reporters would be summonsed to a press conference where some 
overblown tycoon would announce his latest depradation. Their places 
at the tables would be marked with a card with the name of the 
newspaper and a little red packet containing a $100 bill, which 
they'd pocket. At the end of the tycoon's speech they'd all stand up 
and applaud. Their salaries were quite low, because of the little red 
packets, and because their social status was not very high.

I used to train young journalists at newspapers there (and 
elsewhere), and I'd train them for that purpose basically, of writing 
for people, since that's what we're supposed to be for. The Fourth 
Estate and so on, defending the community against injustice and 
exploitation, especially by the rich and powerful (doesn't help a lot 
when the rich and powerful just happen to own the newspaper).

It was always interesting to see how they handled it when confronted 
with a breaking story late at night that needed a comment from 
someone on high, like the Chief Secretary for instance. The Chief 
Mandarin. Very difficult for Confucians, or not even thinkable. They 
had to be forced. Why can't you call him? You think he's more 
important than you are? You represent the public, right? He works for 
the public, he's a public servant. He's your servant. So call him. 
They really struggled with it the first time, but not the second time.

I once sent two girl reporters to find one of the poor old women who 
scrape a living out of recycling, often to be found pushing a heavy 
trolley laden high with folded cartons up a steep hill, in rich Hong 
Kong where Confucians are supposed to honour the old. They should 
make friends with her and then push her trolley up the hill for her. 
Great reluctance. And take a photographer. Furious resistance. But 
they did it, and wrote a great story about the old woman, recycling, 
poverty in Hong Kong. Great pics of the two strong young woman 
sweating at the trolley and the old woman strolling behind looking 
quite happy with the way her day was turning out. I loved the last 
line: She's more useful than we are. It had a lot of repercussions, 
that story, on the two reporters not least of all.

I was asked to rescue an ailing newspaper, it didn't matter how I did 
it (though I doubted that). I started attacking the British colonial 
government and the establishment, always on issues of social justice, 
corruption, 

Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-11 Thread murdoch

There you go - a hacker in sheeple's clothing, LOL! You're certainly 
no slave, MM. I wonder if the real slaves aren't the people at the 
top of the ladder, the ones who think they're in control - such as 
Kenneth Lay, hopeless failures at life, what a waste.

thx, and an interesting take on Lay.


Hack:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hack.html

Hacker:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/hacker.html

I see a problem here that I did not see before.  The term cracker,
which is what hackers are recommending we use when we wish to connote
hacker gone to the dark side or some such, has some slight built-in
vernacular ambiguities.  Is one talking about a safe cracker?  Is one
trying to connote drug use?  (Crack cocaine).  Is there some sort of
racist ambiguity?  (I'm not sure why but I seem to recall cracker
being some sort of racial epithet from one of the races to another).
Maybe there could be a new term for a malicious hacker.  Or maybe just
get better at using cracker.  Yeah, that sounds ok now that I think it
through a little.  We'll see.

Hacking's similar to fettling - all the old factories used to have a 
fettler, when the machines broke he'd come and do a quick-fix so 
they'd work and production could continue until the engineers could 
get around to doing a proper repair job. A good fettler was highly 
skilled and very ingenious.

I had some tailoring done this week, and it just reminded me of how
certain occupations are terribly useful and may well be with us even a
million years from now.  One thing is it reminded me that even on Star
Trek they have Tailors 300 years into the future (though no barbers
prominently featured that I saw anyway).

When I first went to Hong Kong the newspapers were obsequeous. 
Reporters would be summonsed to a press conference where some 
overblown tycoon would announce his latest depradation. 

I've never verified with you that your background might be British,
but it is interesting how a twist toward describing going to Honk Kong
results in a sentence with some strikingly British-seeming ways of
discussing things (including spelling choices).  

I once sent two girl reporters to find one of the poor old women who 
scrape a living out of recycling, often to be found pushing a heavy 
trolley laden high with folded cartons up a steep hill, in rich Hong 
Kong where Confucians are supposed to honour the old. 

I heard an old-time news guy here comment recently, on the topic of
what has changed in reporting over the last 50 years or so, that when
they started out and were young, their basic attitude had something to
do with being angry and taking it for granted that they were sort of
there to change things.  Now, if I recall, he thinks there's somewhat
less willingness to take this unfettered go-get-em
go-up-against-the-establishment attitude, particularly as the
establishment has more control over paying their salaries.


Spin of the day - a must-read:
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=254

Thx, that was awesome.

When he tried to converse with some of the farmers about their pro-GM
T-shirts, They smiled shyly; none of them could speak or read
English. 

I love it.

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Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-10 Thread murdoch

it isn't everyone, not by a very long way, nor ever will be. When 
you have a closer look, maybe it's not quite like that even with the 
slaves. Some people talk of sheeple. Fine critters, sheep, and 
not that dumb either (Judas goats notwithstanding). I always find 
that rather patronizing and arrogant. (No, I'm not accusing you of 
that at all.) I find myself asking, What makes you think you're so 
different? 

FWIW: I fit not completely distant from Curtis's definition of a
slave, financially, (with a couple of twists) and I also view myself
as a hacker, by a broad definition insofar as hacking can, in some
slang, mean more than hacking via programming or via computer, and it
can mean more than trying to mess with some one person or company's
private affairs and-or more than doing anything illegal.  It's not
something I'd expect others to agree with, I just see myself that way
sometimes.

that the opposite works even better - appealing to the best in people 
very often brings it out, and you don't go broke doing it either, not 
necessarily. 

I do agree with this, it's just tough to get to and find the spot to
do it, and to figure out what it is to appeal to and how to do it.



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[biofuel] The big picture Was: Hackers - Virus protection

2002-12-09 Thread csakima

hm 

I'm getting a bit annoyed about all this talk about hacker.   Reason??
Cause I'm a hacker!!  well sorta.   I'm the original type of hacker.
The kind that finds out by accident that the Captain Crunch whistle happens
to be the right tones that  .And it is very upsetting that this
whole society's talk about hackers has like ... really gotten out of
hand!!

When is everyone gonna realize ... what this stupid game is all about??
The world at large ... is nothing more than a big board game.  Run by some
big people.. Call them whatever the heck you'd like .. I don't care.
Global government-ers  NWO'er Corporatizer's . Big Oil-ers ...
whatevers.  It doesn't matter what ya call them ... what's important is the
world they see.  Or rather the world they want to see..

For those of you who can't picture this world .. I'll help you.   It's the
world where EVERYONE  and I mean EVERYONE ... is a slave.  A world where
EVERYONE .. globally .. puts out their $55.00/hr labor into society.  The
Mr. CEO takes his lazy-man's $50.00/hr out of it.   The worker is left with
his $5.00/hr minimum wage applied to his name.  But he can't take his money
out yet ... no sir.  The Government then takes THEIR share.  Rent's,
utilities, food expenses and so on take their's.   Only THEN is the worker
allowed to enjoy his share.   A big fat 50 cents worth of paper with a big
fat $0.00 written on it.



When is everyone gonna realize  that everything that goes on in this
world  gets basically JUDGED . by that above scenario??   If some
young kid discovers some invention that furthers this slavery cause 
GREAT .. he's heralded as the inventor of telephone or  the inventor of
the transistor ... or whatever.   If this same young kid discovers a way to
upset this picture  such as an interesting experiment which shows how
we can go around forcing people to getting the least possible food for the
maximum input of labor  oh ... ahh. ohh  suddenly
he's DEMONIZED.   As malicious ... dangerous  a whacko.  When in
reality, me ... and most other so-called hacker ... we're just kids.
Who have no evil intent in mind.   Just fascinated by how things works.
Why??  Cause  ahem  it's cool.. how it works!!

So please  keep your focus away from us hackers.   Refocus yourselves
on the big boys.  Figure out their motives.  Why the Positive  or
negative news attention.   I think you'll find it all comes down to how
much money they stand to gain (or lose)  or what percentage of the
global population they stand to gain (or lose)  as potential slaves.

Otherwise, if you don't you'll (to use Keith's words ... I hope I use it in
the right context) ..you'll swallow the party lines, hook line and
sinker

Sorry, just couldn't sit in the sidelines while all this was flying around,.

Curtis
Grew up as (original meaning) hacker

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It's a sub-culture, and it goes back at least 30 years. So do I! LOL!  At
least! If none of this had happened you wouldn't have a PC. Even worse, I
wouldn't have a Mac.

What does Captain Crunch mean to you? Breakfast cereal. Long long ago it
came with a little plastic whistle in the box. Some phreaks discovered that
if you blew the whistle into a phone it had the exact tone required to hack
your way into Ma Bell's innards - free. So the man named by Newsweek as one
of the Top Twenty hackers of all time became known as Captain Crunch.

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Re: [biofuel] The big picture Was: Hackers - Virus protection

2002-12-09 Thread Keith Addison

Hey Curtis

:-)

I was hoping to prise you out of the woodwork, I just didn't realize 
it'd be you. I'm not too surprised. You're a fone phreak?

Anyway, cheer up. A bit better than slaves, a bit worse too - but by 
any definition there are probably only a few hundred million of them, 
it isn't everyone, not by a very long way, nor ever will be. When 
you have a closer look, maybe it's not quite like that even with the 
slaves. Some people talk of sheeple. Fine critters, sheep, and 
not that dumb either (Judas goats notwithstanding). I always find 
that rather patronizing and arrogant. (No, I'm not accusing you of 
that at all.) I find myself asking, What makes you think you're so 
different? In a previous era they were called the salt of the 
earth, perhaps just as patronizingly but with a lot more truth. Ad 
agencies and so on do their profilings and become convinced by them, 
especially as they work; the media often appeal to the lowest 
common denominator, and that works too. But it's quite easy to show 
that the opposite works even better - appealing to the best in people 
very often brings it out, and you don't go broke doing it either, not 
necessarily. (I've done that a few times with newspapers, and it 
really worked - up went the circulation, and the advertising with it. 
And no, they didn't like it. The readers did though.) People live 
their lives as best they can and do what they have to do, but there's 
nearly always more to them than you might think, they're not just 
numbers. There's hope. The powers-that-be aren't nearly as 
all-powerful as they try to tell us. Plenty of spreading cracks in 
their concrete.

Anyway, long live Captain Crunch, and plastic whistles and viruses 
are good for you. Happy hacking!

Regards

Keith



hm 

I'm getting a bit annoyed about all this talk about hacker.   Reason??
Cause I'm a hacker!!  well sorta.   I'm the original type of hacker.
The kind that finds out by accident that the Captain Crunch whistle happens
to be the right tones that  .And it is very upsetting that this
whole society's talk about hackers has like ... really gotten out of
hand!!

When is everyone gonna realize ... what this stupid game is all about??
The world at large ... is nothing more than a big board game.  Run by some
big people.. Call them whatever the heck you'd like .. I don't care.
Global government-ers  NWO'er Corporatizer's . Big Oil-ers ...
whatevers.  It doesn't matter what ya call them ... what's important is the
world they see.  Or rather the world they want to see..

For those of you who can't picture this world .. I'll help you.   It's the
world where EVERYONE  and I mean EVERYONE ... is a slave.  A world where
EVERYONE .. globally .. puts out their $55.00/hr labor into society.  The
Mr. CEO takes his lazy-man's $50.00/hr out of it.   The worker is left with
his $5.00/hr minimum wage applied to his name.  But he can't take his money
out yet ... no sir.  The Government then takes THEIR share.  Rent's,
utilities, food expenses and so on take their's.   Only THEN is the worker
allowed to enjoy his share.   A big fat 50 cents worth of paper with a big
fat $0.00 written on it.



When is everyone gonna realize  that everything that goes on in this
world  gets basically JUDGED . by that above scenario??   If some
young kid discovers some invention that furthers this slavery cause 
GREAT .. he's heralded as the inventor of telephone or  the inventor of
the transistor ... or whatever.   If this same young kid discovers a way to
upset this picture  such as an interesting experiment which shows how
we can go around forcing people to getting the least possible food for the
maximum input of labor  oh ... ahh. ohh  suddenly
he's DEMONIZED.   As malicious ... dangerous  a whacko.  When in
reality, me ... and most other so-called hacker ... we're just kids.
Who have no evil intent in mind.   Just fascinated by how things works.
Why??  Cause  ahem  it's cool.. how it works!!

So please  keep your focus away from us hackers.   Refocus yourselves
on the big boys.  Figure out their motives.  Why the Positive  or
negative news attention.   I think you'll find it all comes down to how
much money they stand to gain (or lose)  or what percentage of the
global population they stand to gain (or lose)  as potential slaves.

Otherwise, if you don't you'll (to use Keith's words ... I hope I use it in
the right context) ..you'll swallow the party lines, hook line and
sinker

Sorry, just couldn't sit in the sidelines while all this was flying around,.

Curtis
Grew up as (original meaning) hacker

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It's a sub-culture, and it goes back at least 30 years. So do I! LOL!  At
least! If none of this had happened you wouldn't 

Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-09 Thread Ken Provost


On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 11:41  AM, Keith Addison wrote:

 The powers-that-be aren't nearly as all-powerful as they try to tell
 us. Plenty of spreading cracks in their concrete.

Their single greatest weakness is extreme short-sightedness.
It's bad for everyone else too, of course, but it's always ultimately
fatal to the current oligarchy. They never see their demise coming,
even though everyone else did.   -K


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Re: [biofuel] The big picture

2002-12-09 Thread Keith Addison

On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 11:41  AM, Keith Addison wrote:

  The powers-that-be aren't nearly as all-powerful as they try to tell
  us. Plenty of spreading cracks in their concrete.

Their single greatest weakness is extreme short-sightedness.
It's bad for everyone else too, of course, but it's always ultimately
fatal to the current oligarchy. They never see their demise coming,
even though everyone else did.   -K

Yes. Part of the short-sightedness is a lack of connection. They're 
blinkered by their pollings and profilings and averagings, and 
prejudices, and haven't a clue what people are about or what they're 
really up to. I think we recently saw a lesser example of that here 
in Big Biodiesel's hopelessly flawed view of homebrewers.

Keith


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