Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-05 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 04:06 PM 5/4/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: When I've inadvertently offended people here, I've gone out of my way to show some basic common courtesy and apologize, In most cases I found your apologies at least as offensive as your original insults, and frequently more so. Since you're

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-04 Thread Faustine
Quoting James A. Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James Donald wrote: So all of us are full bore paranoids? Faustine Is that really what you got out of what I said? Yes. You are so persistently catty and insulting that you could not speak without a nasty meaning hidden in your words even

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-03 Thread Faustine
Faustine wrote: Too true. But if we want to actually reach people who *would* care if only they knew, it's important to talk about it without coming across like a full-bore paranoid. It seems like a bad idea to risk losing credibility with careless rhetoric and sloppy thinking. More than

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- At 03:00 PM 5/1/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote: The sheeple can be shown arguments they understand, like: if you were evil entity, wouldn't you be motivated to insert privacy affront here. This can alert them. Then they would promptly vote for a government commissar of privacy, to

Re: Undermining government power and authority

2001-05-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- 1. That's for saying I come across like a full-bore paranoid. At 07:22 PM 4/30/2001 -0400, Faustine wrote: I wasn't speaking about you in particular AT ALL. So all of us are full bore paranoids? Your catty insults, incessant put downs, and your patronizing flattery are equally

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 by