Re: A secure voting protocol

2000-11-10 Thread Jim Burnes
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote: At 2:46 PM -0800 11/10/00, Ray Dillinger wrote: Physical ballot voting has its problems, but at least people _understand_ the concept of marking a ballot, as opposed to "blinding the exponent of their elliptic curve function and then solving the discrete

Re: California bars free speech of those cutting deals on votes

2000-11-01 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000, you wrote: Tim May wrote: (In that I'll feel better in coming years being able to think to myself: "I didn't vote for that Bush clown...I voted my principles!") However, as any vote is of marginal importance, as with the amelioration issue you mention, I'm still

Re: Ralph Nader sends privacy survey to Bush and Gore campaigns

2000-10-10 Thread Jim Burnes
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote: At 23:38 10/9/2000 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: I seem to remember Etzioni being tied into the Communitarian movement as well. Right. In fact, that's an understatement. He's essentially the anti-cypherpunk: Regulate corporations' data collection

Re: Treatment of subjugated people (and bagpipes)

2000-09-05 Thread Jim Burnes
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Jim Dixon wrote: an invasion and the way the Saxons were treated; but the Normans were just copying the Romans, and the Romans were just copying the Greeks. It's easy to look at history in this way, seeing some people as villians and other as victims. But do remember

Re: Internet Driver's License: Et tu, Brutus?

2000-08-31 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote: Frankly, this guy has been spouting this kind of stuff for way too long. And probably gets press just because his views are so thoroughly fascist. I say anyone with this infantile level of philosophical development should be prevented from using the

Re: Fwd: SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON CHOKE CHAINS

2000-07-24 Thread Jim Burnes
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote: ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:41:11 -0700 From: American Patriot Friends Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: American Patriot Friends Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SHERIFFS PUT FEDS ON

test -- ignore

2000-07-20 Thread Jim Burnes
this is a test Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural

The Christian Mythos (was something else)

2000-07-18 Thread Jim Burnes
For the person who asked about Easter: Easter is the Roman Catholic hijacked holiday that was the Pagan festival of Oestre, which is obviously cognate for Easter. Oestre is a Germanic goddess which is the same as (and cognate with) the Mesopotamian godess Ishtar. In their Mythos Ishtar was the

MONTEREY'S COAST

2000-07-12 Thread Jim Burnes
my seaside friend on monterey's coast: how is robin hood and maid marion? please give me a call (or email) your phone number is no longer valid the chocolate computer was tasty, btw thx

Antiwar.com Attacked by CERT?

2000-06-02 Thread Jim Burnes
Now for something truly different. It may be that CERT or elements that work for CERT are attacking the mostly libertarian non-military-interventionist news site 'antiwar.com'. Antiwar.com is a great alternate source of news when you want to know what our government is really blowing up today

Re: its a mistake

2000-06-02 Thread Jim Burnes
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Eric Murray wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:44:04PM +0800, cypherstar wrote: spam is bad, lots of spam is still just bad. censorship is a huge and frightening mistake. this list has real power precisely because it is completely uncensored. so, we get

More Antiwar ACERT info

2000-06-02 Thread Jim Burnes
Apparently the probing is coming from Fort Belvoir in Maryland. Home of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command. Probably someone gave a lecture out there on propaganda and disinfo and all the army geek wannabees had to go and visit antiwar themselves. (this is assuming that its not a

Re: censorship of the unpopular

2000-05-17 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 17 May 2000, John Young wrote: What about net vigilantism reported today in a US national newspaper, about the volunteers who are helping the fuzz track down miscreants? One gang goes after kiddie peds, another virii, another after "unethical" hackers. In the name of keeping the

Re: ! STOCKS CRUMBLE; AMERICA DIES

2000-05-11 Thread Jim Burnes
George Ortega wrote: Americans had over twenty years to feed the starving children of our world that die at a rate of 24,000 every day, but we chose to be greedy and selfish, and evil. Now we will be punished for our sins. God will take away our money, and our health. He will destroy

Ob Crypto Gonzalez

2000-04-24 Thread Jim Burnes
At the risk of entering the Cuban American inferno Lets the facts be presented to a candid world. 1. Elian's father left he and his mother in Cuba. 2. Elian's mother decided to risk her life and her child's life escaping something horrible in a rickety boat. By default this would be

Re: Cybersecurity Czar???? Sheesh... (was Re: [ILN] INTERNET LAWNEWS - MARCH 10, 2000 (RESEND))

2000-03-13 Thread Jim Burnes
"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: At 11:03 AM -0500 on 3/10/00, Michael Geist wrote: CALLS FOR A CYBERSECURITY CZAR Congressional hearings into Internet security issues yielded a call for the creation of a cybersecurity czar by Congressman Horn from California.

Reno Tired of First Amend Protect. of Publishers

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Burnes
People: I usually don't publish links to misc stuff on the web, but this looked interesting.. "Janet Reno would curb press freedom on line Constitutional protections of the press are getting in the way of cyber-crime prosecutions and may have to be reconsidered, a White House committee

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Burnes
Jim Choate wrote: A century ago? You dipshit the Ottoman Empire fell apart in the late 1800's while the first Communist theories formed in the late 1800's and the first communist state formed in 1917. Actually the first formal Communist theories were formed in the late 1700's (about 1792 if

Re: Not an unexpected verdict ...

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Burnes
Jim Choate wrote: On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrong. The police are here to enforce laws and arrest people. They have no legal obligation to protect. It'd be nice if it really were that way, but it isn't. Wrong, police are here to serve and protect. They protect

Re:

2000-02-28 Thread Jim Burnes
"James A. Donald" wrote: -- At 09:16 PM 2/26/00 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: Are there any cypherpunk developed anonymous digitial cash systems in use at the present time ? Did a search and came up with "Magic Money" but I don't hear much disscussion about it on the group.

Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re: why worry?)

2000-02-28 Thread Jim Burnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Irrelevent. No one is arguing that existence under communist rule is a holiday -- or even better than existence in the U.S. The statement is simply that the average american knows dick about the conditions that exist in other nations, and as an aside, is oblivious

Scientific Study Shows Communism a Failure (was: damn commie)

2000-02-25 Thread Jim Burnes
Aaron wrote: Then go start a commie commune and leave us cypherpunks alone. We like money and stuff. Please. You're just another petty-bourgeois wanna-be. I don't care about your money because the corporations are going to own your ass long before communists take control.