RE: Amtrak & The War On Drugs (gray travel)

2001-04-26 Thread Aimee Farr
Alan Olsen wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > I wrote, and to curb offlist replies, flames and comparisons to > John Young, > > I write again: > > > > > BTW, I need a gray travel consultant. Lemme know if anybody > knows of one. > > > Will accept salt-and-pepper gray. > > > > =

Re: The Well-Read Cypherpunk

2001-04-26 Thread Steve Mynott
Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not about central planning at all. Making any policy without using > rigorous data-based research to get a sense of the way things really are > (through analysis and measurement) rather than the way your theory tells you > they OUGHT to be, is a dang

Re: [Fwd: YOU ARE INVITED: "Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?" -- Next Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)]

2001-04-26 Thread James A. Donald
-- Faustine demonstrating his cheerful ignorance of economics, and who is who in economics: > > > [David Friedman has published . . .] Nothing good enough to get > > > mentioned at NBER, the veritable gold standard William Vogt > > AER is usually considered the top economics journal. JPE is

Review? Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?

2001-04-26 Thread aluger
Did anyone attend the event: Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete? If so, would you be willing to post a summary? Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com

Re: [Fwd: YOU ARE INVITED: "Will Encryption Protect Privacy and Make Government Obsolete?" -- Next Independent Policy Forum (4/24/01)]

2001-04-26 Thread Faustine
Quoting "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Faustine demonstrating his (SIC) cheerful ignorance of economics, and who is > who in economics: No need to get personal. I know how well-regarded Friedman is in Libertarian circles. Ignorant in many respects, certainly; about economics in genera

BSE

2001-04-26 Thread mmotyka
Here's a question for you Tim, I'm sure you've read about BSE, scrapie, kuru, Creutzfeld-Jakob et al. Generally they seem to be species-specific but there is some crossover. Let's assume that feeding ground up livestock to livestock is a risky behavior. It goes on here in the U.S. How, in an un

FT editorial: "When Theft is Justified"

2001-04-26 Thread Faustine
When theft is justified The limited abuse of copyright is a spur to scholarship, innovation and democracy Published: April 25 2001 19:36GMT | Last Updated: April 25 2001 19:48GMT Financial Times http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3RFUPBZLC 'We live in a ce

Re: FT editorial: "When Theft is Justified"

2001-04-26 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Faustine wrote: >When theft is justified >The limited abuse of copyright is a spur to scholarship, innovation and >democracy >Published: April 25 2001 19:36GMT | Last Updated: April 25 2001 19:48GMT >Financial Times > > >http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Arti

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-04-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:11 PM 4/25/01 -0400, John Young wrote: > >Podesta noted that the 125th anniversary of the gummed-envelope >was approaching. That that technology is trusted for privacy because >of custom and law backing the custom. He stated that any privacy >technology is going to be workable only if backed

RE: BSE

2001-04-26 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Mike wrote: > Here's a question for you Tim, I'd like to take a crack at it too. :-D > Let's assume that feeding ground up > livestock to livestock is a risky > behavior. It goes on here in the U.S. > > How, in an unregulated system, do you > get people to follow immediately > practices that a