Re: All these different addresses.

2000-12-14 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Gary Benson wrote: > How come this list has so many addresses: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is any of these the *real* address, or it is a personal choice? They are all *real*. If you would like

Re: what hell

2000-11-13 Thread Jim Choate
Hi Ernesto, You are subscribed (through some mechanism I suspect wasn't intentional on your part) to a mailing list about cryptography, economics, and civil liberties. More info at: http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr/index.html

Test - No Reply

2000-09-10 Thread Jim Choate
1 He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'/ ``::

toad Test

2000-08-11 Thread Jim Choate
He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'/ ``::>

Re: Metallica Sellouts

2000-05-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 3 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Metallica INC. > > I would like to address the issue that you are > having with Napster. When I first heard about your lawsuit, I was > astonished that you would be against your music being traded. You mean stolen.

Re: car hacker's lists?

2000-04-21 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Steve Schear wrote: > Sounds like a market opportunity to manufacture very low power jammers > which operate on the GPS frequency(s) Which were just announced about three days ago. The f

Re: URGENT!!! Need a list operator to serve my s_u_b_s_criers for 2 wks

2000-03-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > I am going to a vacation and I would like to have my s_u_b_s_cribers > TEMPORARILY s_u_b_s_cribed by another node. Please drop me a note and I > will send you a list of my s_u_b_s_cribers so that you would s_u_b_s_cribe them > at your place until

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Sunder wrote: > Erm, it is the same thing if you happen to be the worker/serf. You are > owned and anything you have in your possession isn't yours. It doesn't > matter much whether it's the Lord or the Party that owns it. What does > matter is that you don't. :) > > The

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jim Burnes wrote: > 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 19

Re: Re: Bullshit cable hack hoax...

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, David Honig wrote: > At 06:56 PM 3/6/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >> > lasers. Inject a few volt p-t-p 25-45 MHz CW signal (using > > Jim, let me be the first to flame incredulously at your > physics. Tim is probably in seizures right now. >

Pulling the rug ( was "Purpose of anti-laundering laws?" )

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 6:44 PM -0800 on 3/6/00, bram wrote: > > > Why aren't the banks lobbying heavily to get rid of those laws so they can > > save money? Or do they appreciate the increased barriers to entry to their > > industry? > > Yes, and yes. :-). > > Remem

INFO-RUSS: BILL OF NO RIGHTS (Fwd) (fwd)

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::;:

Bullshit cable hack hoax...

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 11:42:12PM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: > > > Fortunately one can put a little backbone into the ISP with a bit of > > monkeywrenching. Cable networks are very fragile, especially the upstream > > lasers. Inject a few volt p-t-p 25-45 MHz CW signal (using an inexpens

Re: Re: White House report says government wants to trace Net users

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote: > Congress cannot "remove privacy protections from journalists and > publishers" for obvious First Amendment reasons. > > (There is no "privacy right," qua privacy. There are various rights > involving protection from random searches and seizures, freedom to

Re: Let's change the name!, part 17

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 8:05 AM -0800 3/6/00, Trei, Peter wrote: > >As some will recall, about 3 years ago, I started a thread entitled > >"'Cypherpunks' considered harmful" suggesting we needed to find a > >new title for the mailing list. Tim objected quite vehemently, as > >I

Sigh...

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > Jim Choate wrote: > > > ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000 > > > in northern america, right? > > > > Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion. > > this is

Re: Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re:whyworry?)

2000-03-06 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > he also lived in italy. > > ca. 1500 in italy is certainly a lot closer to the source than ca. 2000 > in northern america, right? Ad hominims...so sad. You are of course welcome to your opinion. So what? We're only just over 200 years after our own count

Re: Political realities (was " damn commie hypocrite leech!")

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > anything WITHOUT context is meaningless. No, it just may not be true in all situations. Consider cosmology, nihilism, and pantheism for a contrary argument to this supposition. > this is exactly what I'm saying. in MATH, or if you want to refine it > furt

Re: Re: Not an unexpected verdict ...

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jim Burnes wrote: > Apparently we have different definitions of 'protection' running > around here. Active vs. passive protection I suppose in your > world. I live in the same world you do. I make no distinction between active and passive. The reality is the SC said that i

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > Er... what part of "feudalism is a form of socialism" you don't understand? None of it since they're not the same thing at all Socialism is the ownership and management of all property by the state with the elimination of private property. Feud

Re: The price of bread in Romania (typo correction)

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
Me bad... On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > ONLY because the Allies who WON WWII set it up that way. Didn't manage to > keep it long did you That should be WWI, not WWII. Th

Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote: > The tragedy of communism in this century is that what had once been > thriving economies in Europe--Hungary, Poland, and to a lesser extent, > Romania, Bulgaria, etc.--became poor, command economy basket cases. Yeah, thriving economies that only a handful o

Re: Re: Proving truth & falisty, was A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > > Just a note - the conjecture is due to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and can be found on > his web page. My apologies if including it in my post caused any >

Untrusted users accessing sensitive resources (Was "A new PKC")

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps this solves a little problem we've been playing with: > > We have an untrusted user that needs a key to unlock a file for > processing. Is there anyway we can transmit a key to the program that > processes the file and allow the program t

Re: RE: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Black Unicorn wrote: > > Did you make it up? > > Not at all. All in (among other places) the Congressional Record. > Any other questions? Nope, thanks for the vector. The future is dow

algebra.com seems to be having problems...

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
FYI The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,:://

Re: RE: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Black Unicorn wrote: > This was and is rather expensive. Each CTR (currency transaction report) > costs a bank between $5 and $25 to process. From 1987-1996 U.S. banks filed > more than 77,000,000 million Currency Transaction Reports at a cost to > consumers of over 1.2 bi

Proving truth & falisty, was A new PKC, and some conjectures

2000-03-05 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > > Conjecture - For any axiomatic system, there exists a function which > > runs in a practical amount of time which takes as inputs a statement in > > that axiomatic system and a fixed length string, > > > such that given a proof of any statement in the ax

Re: Purpose of anti-laundering laws?

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, reject wrote: > Obviously, assorted FedGoons(tm) dislike untraceable money. Nasty > terrorists, child pornographers, drug dealers, and other horsemen could > hide their "profits" then... > > But is there a *legitimate* reason to have anti-money-laundering laws? I > can't

Re: (Possibly OT) Free speech through "pads"

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > Hi! David Madore had an interesting idea - you can read about it at > http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/misc/freespeech.html . Being a fan > of Delphi, I wrote a program that enables one to implement that idea. > Unfortunately, he doesn't have

Re: Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, dmolnar wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Jim Choate wrote: > > > Anonymous mailer operaters can most definitely be considered to be 'doing > > anything' if it is found they're in the loop of a criminal investigation. > > Yes. This is wh

Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Daniel J. Boone wrote: > Another design issue to take into account in building a payments mix system > is that, unlike a message mix system, there is (at least in the United > States) an obvious "legal" (as opposed to technical) attack against payment > mix machine operators

Suggested Reading

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, Tomorrow's Soldier: The Warriors, Weapons, and Tactics That Will Win America's Wars in the Twenty-first Century D. Alexander ISBN 0-380-79502-7 $6.50 US The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, David Honig wrote: > At 12:33 AM 3/4/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >ROTFL > > The other terms are (atomic) labels, jargon, which mean particular things > to practitioners. Not really that funny. No accounting for taste

Re: Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On 4 Mar 2000, Secret Squirrel wrote: > Good point. In fact if a fixed-order mix chain is used (everyone uses > the same order), then the aggregated amount is just passed as one chunk > from one remailer to the next. However, when it gets to the final > remailer it must then be broken up agai

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does > not "define" words, it just indicates the most common ones. No, normaly people use words within a reasonable range of commen expectations. It's one of the reasons people n

Re: Re: Use Nuclear Threats To Deter Chemical and Biological

2000-03-04 Thread Jim Choate
The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::;:

Re: Re: damn commie hypocrite leech! (was Re: Re: Re:whyworry?)

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > on the other side, scholars with seemingly much more direct knowledge > disagree heavily with you. read any machiavelli lately? Let's see Rome was pretty much destroyed by roughly 568 AD by the Lombards. Machiavelli lived 1469 - 1527, yet. That's certainl

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 2:44 PM -0500 on 3/2/00, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > > > Capitalism: free trade (no interference in a > > transaction by those not involved). > > Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning "economics". Economics - the study o

Re: Re: The price of bread in Romania

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > I'm using other definitions. What a fucking putz. Invent your own language and you expect others to go along with it? Fat chance. Ever hear of Esperanto? The futu

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

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 12:29 PM 3/1/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > > >Capitalism is not equivalent to freedom in any manner. If anything the > >pursuit of capitalist goals has driven more abuse than help by many > >orders of magnitude. >

[alg] driver for hardware RNG. (fwd)

2000-03-02 Thread Jim Choate
- Forwarded message from Paul Elliott - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 2 11:51:39 2000 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from austinlug.org ([206.64.12.48]) by einstein.ssz.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01216 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:51

Re: Re: Anonymous e-cash server built on e-gold -- NOT!

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tim May wrote: > Perhaps you are right. I am asking you, then, to not do it. Not because I > "own" my words here, but because readers on other lists lack context. (Few > of our articles are self-contained articles in the way magazine articles > are meant to be.) Whine, whin

Re: Re: Not an unexpected verdict ...

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jim Burnes wrote: > 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

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

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Honig wrote: > At 08:15 AM 3/1/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > dressed under > >our present system to get it working well again. Those changes won't > >happen easily because our culture is wearing the blinders of false > >profits. > &g

Re: Not an unexpected verdict ...

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
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 by enforcing laws. They

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

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sunder wrote: > Amen brother! Sing it again! Ain't nothing sweeter than freedom. And that's > as capitalist as you can get. Capitalism is not equivalent to freedom in any manner. If anything the pursuit of capitalist goals has driven more abuse than help by many orders o

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

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Sunder wrote: > > > So then, what's the answer? Capitalism or Crapunism under anarchy? :) > > Dunno .. but I sort of suspect that if we could pull off a true anarchy > that it wouldn't matter much. > > Individuals could clump

Re: Political realities (was " damn commie hypocrite leech!")

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > Jim Choate wrote: > > > in our time, if it exists, it's probably patented. > > > > I'd say there is never any truth, only observations and opinions. > > Everything else is mental masturbation. > > that depend

Re: Political realities (was " damn commie hypocrite leech!")

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > Jim Choate wrote: > > > two different explanations. how can we find out which one is closer to > > > the truth? > > > > What truth? > > in our time, if it exists, it's probably patented. I'd say there i

Re: Political realities (was " damn commie hypocrite leech!")

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > two different explanations. how can we find out which one is closer to > the truth? What truth? What makes you think there couldn't be even more factors like religous, economic, or raw resource issues as well. Quit looking for easy answers. > and again

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

2000-03-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any government needs appropriate leadership, especially in its > infancy.. and those leaders need to be dedicated to that government > deep in their bones. What do you mean by leadership? An elite? That is a historical falacy based in the belief

Political realities (was " damn commie hypocrite leech!")

2000-02-29 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > say, isn't the fact that there hasn't been a communist state despite > several attempts to create one a good proof that the concept is not > implementable? No, it simply means that there were political and economic factors sufficient to hijack the process

Re: Not an unexpected verdict ...

2000-02-28 Thread Jim Choate
On 28 Feb 2000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > The verdict in this trial was not by "our government", but by a jury of > average Americans who were presented with all the evidence. The decision > was unanimous, and the jury was racially mixed. The evidence of which was presented by 'our gove

What Dialo's next of kin should do...

2000-02-25 Thread Jim Choate
Since it has been found that the police were within procedure in their actions with respect to firing 41 rounds to stop a single man (armed or not) then the family should bring a wrongful death suite against the city for allowing bad procedures to be implimented. The police claim to be trained

BOUNCE cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com: Header field too long (>1024) (fwd)

2000-02-18 Thread Jim Choate
The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::;:

Re: Re: why worry?

2000-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Aaron wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:21:10 -0600 (CST), Jim Choate wrote: > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Reese wrote: > > > >> Then you have a very limited view of the world, corporations, and the > >> distinctions between the various forms of

Re: Re: why worry?

2000-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Reese wrote: > At 03:37 PM 2/16/00 -0800, in response to someone whose comments I snipped > out, Aaron wrote: > > >In the world as I perceive it, socialists control very little; corporations > >control most. > > Then you have a very limited view of the world, corporation

Re: Crypto victory is at hand - what next?

2000-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On 17 Feb 2000, lcs Mixmaster Remailer wrote: > Wired reports at > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34376,00.html: > > This should be an excellent antidote to the ravings of paranoids and > conspiracy freaks. The United States is now leading the world towards > ELIMINATING restrictio

Re: your mail

2000-02-15 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Andrew Rogers wrote: > Stop the List! I wanna get off! > > :) Instructions at http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact?

The power of cryptography

2000-02-13 Thread Jim Choate
> At 03:52 PM 2/12/00 -0500, Matthew Gream wrote: > > I make the assertion that 1 years ago, locks and ciphers were not needed > because at that time, society was not sufficiently constructed to need them. Um, actualy codes were used and probably much farther back than 10,000 years. Trailc

[texas-hpr] ATF lawsuit filed (fwd)

2000-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::;:

Austin Cypherpunks: Meeting on Sat. Feb. 26 at 7pm

2000-02-12 Thread Jim Choate
Saturday, February 26, 2000 7-9 PM Central Market HEB 38th & N. Lamar email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (via [EMAIL PROTECTED]) homepage: http://www.ssz.com/cdr (instructions) Look for the group with a red covered "Applied Cryptography" book on the table. We normaly sit outside unless the weather is ba

Austin 2600 & Austin Cypherpunks Mail List is back

2000-02-10 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, The Austin Cypherpunks mailing list is back. It is a majordomo managed list and specific directions are located at http://einstein.ssz.com/cdr Then just follow directions. Don't forget to save those directions for later... Also, Can I put a small para describing the 2600 group and a URL

Test - Expect 2 copies - Adding ds.pro-ns.net - possible mail loop

2000-02-10 Thread Jim Choate
TSIA The future is downloading. Can you hear the impact? O[rphan] D[rift>] Cyber Positive The Armadillo Group ,::/

Re: Re: Cypherpunks@algebra.com to be CLOSED next week

2000-02-09 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Petro wrote: > I appreciate it, and I think having as many nodes as possible > is of value. > > Where can one get the source code to run a node? I know it's > a modified version of majordomo, but do each of the node admins have > to hack their own, or is ther

Re: Re: Cypherpunks@algebra.com to be CLOSED next week

2000-02-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Igor Chudov @ home wrote: > I have not been paying much attention to this list lately. I am very > busy with a couple of projects of my own. > > If the readers feel like me closing [EMAIL PROTECTED] is going to be > a big inconvenience, I will not close it down, for the tim

Re: Re: Cypherpunks@algebra.com to be CLOSED next week

2000-02-08 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tim May wrote: > print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> > )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0 -:-:-:-:-:-:-: > Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, >

Re: Re: Cypherpunks@algebra.com to be CLOSED next week

2000-02-08 Thread Jim Choate
What a loser. On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tim May wrote: > Looks like the paint is being laid down and we are being chased into a corner. > > Cyberpass.net vanished a few weeks ago, with no explanation. Algebra.com is > about to vanish. Toad.com is of course unacceptable because of past > censorship

Update 469 (fwd)

2000-02-04 Thread Jim Choate
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:40:38 -0500 (EST) From: AIP listserver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Update 469 PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 469 February 2, 2000 by Phillip F. Sc

Re: Re: lead vs. invisibility: china

2000-02-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 5:53 AM -0800 2/1/00, Jim Choate wrote: > >On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Mixmaster wrote: > > > >> At 09:13 PM 1/27/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >> >Desert Eagle Action Express .50 > >> > >> (too unreliable

Re: lead vs. invisibility: china

2000-02-01 Thread Jim Choate
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Mixmaster wrote: > At 09:13 PM 1/27/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: > >Desert Eagle Action Express .50 > > (too unreliable; get a casull .454 if you like big bores) I've yet to hear of a problem with a mis-fire and the long-range accuracy of the Dese