Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-10-31 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald writes: > > Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably > > Symbian. Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this > determined and achieved? There is no official definit

Re: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2005-10-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Since cryptography these days is routine and > > uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong > > reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to > > exist. John Kelsey > The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and > of

Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2005-10-28 Thread James A. Donald
hich are mere noise anyway. These problems, however, are no explicitly political, and tend to be addressed on lists that are not explicitly political, leaving cypherpunks with little of substance. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwv

Re: Any comments on BlueGem's LocalSSL?

2005-10-28 Thread James A. Donald
-- R.A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Intel doing their current crypto/DRM stuff, [...] You > know they're going to do evil, but at least the > *other* malware goes away. I am a reluctant convert to DRM. At least with DRM, we face a smaller number of threats.

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-10-26 Thread James A. Donald
valuable secrets, since DRM binds the data to the software, and provides a secure channel to the user. So secrets representing ID, and secrets representing value, can only be manipulated by the software that is supposed to be manipulating it. --digsig James

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-26 Thread James A. Donald
rorists, because they are just as likely to target you no matter what you do. Government regulators are a bigger problem, since they are apt to forbid any business model they do not understand, but they tend to be more predictable than courts. --digsig James A. Donald

On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-26 Thread James A. Donald
Date sent: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:38:36 +0200 To: cyphrpunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], cryptography@metzdowd.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia & Tor]

2005-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
n bet that > there are other "obvious" targets that have been > hammered through Tor. In the long run, reliable pseudonymity will prove more valuable than reliable anonymity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wE/La87xer

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-20 Thread James A. Donald
tors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the proletariat. :-) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ikKvUYkvyBE7ikT3WsIGcsxLztiI6VjO7F+lbUPi 43u1MspIR5iABmysKM+9wkz7R+H7AgDDsuhTSZJ4A

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread James A. Donald
t attractive heterosexual women from date rape. These various isms are not marxism, not exactly, but they bare a striking resemblance to their parent. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JTnG7EwKWGBKCLMjy9fEelUGWOaNVelhzQKnyKWj 4KYcVP6IOe2k/gw1LLqwMfH5ioyRfGUAvNrJFj/2o

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > : So when I buy coffee, that is political? Damian Gerow > Is it organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee? > Locally grown? Locally roasted? Purchased through > StarBucks or a local coffee shop? Do the growers use > their profits to help the growth of c

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-17 Thread James A. Donald
coffee, that is political? Surely the non state area of our lives is the non political area of our lives. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OHqLH7EFCEVGI5CkHzpWzDH3Iyd7w5T1TSE3dyUB 4HvAcBSrD8JQfPtYDs3hHfuCbQWprTcJhov+r6b1+

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-14 Thread James A. Donald
project is advanced by more boring stuff: standards, software, and business. Excessive mention of the ideological implications of certain standards and software would be counterproductive. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+p

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- From: Ulex Europae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay, I've been in a hole in the ground for a few > years. What happened to Tim May? Gone very quiet. At the expiration party, he failed to recommend gas chambers. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread James A. Donald
ably Thomas, who voted against this decision. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OATUYUUD6X16QdQnFd2ZgGItmw0TrkkNoR5SYYAZ 4HZTgkPgkgTwPSGrDGUeYo6QjGZU5psCanKPMN479

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-23 Thread James B. DiGriz
Tyler Durden wrote: Holy crap. Some shitty little township can now bulldoze your house because someone wants to convert the space into a Waffle House. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8331097/ Where's Tim May when you need him? Where's the RAGE? How do you take out a bulldozer? (Remember, bulldoze

Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

2005-05-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > While it doubtless would have been better to behead > > the Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi > > dictatorship, nonetheless American troops seem to be > > finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq. Major Variola (ret) > In what imaginary

Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A):

2005-05-23 Thread James A. Donald
ican troops seem to be finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG UB064U/DafELO1g1L+J1elpcp4Rm0O4oDPOO5uH+ 4rzwuJwOGk4RYWsWPOFN78tEmJamA31vLTloe7Rnv

Re: hello

2005-04-27 Thread James Hawkes
This email address is no longer active. Please use the format <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alternately, please do not hesitate to call us on +44 (0) 20 8962 9860 Kind regards The Atacama Team

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-23 Thread James A. Donald
based on such transactions. The real obstacle is that 99% of customers cannot understand WebMoney's security, or use Pecunix's PGP based interface. If you try to sell them Chaumian blinded transactions, the average mobster is going to be seriously boggled. --digsig

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-20 Thread James A. Donald
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > Second, has anyone seen http://www.wmtransfer.com/ ? Ok, it's > > Russian, so not a lot of trust in there... on the other hand, it > > DOES mean it's unlikely to bow to US pressure. On 20 Apr 2005 at 19:23, Pawe Krawczyk wrote: >

Re: how email encryption should work

2005-04-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > In my blog http://blog.jim.com/ I post "how email > > encryption should work" On 8 Apr 2005 at 22:17, Bill Stewart wrote: > I see a couple of problems with your proposal. I'm not > sure I like your external trusted mail-server > a

Re: FEC requesting comments on Internet use

2005-04-04 Thread James A. Donald
itical races. The question then, is how will this prohibition against political speech on specific politicians and campaigns be applied to the internet. "A" list blogs claim to be the press, so the argument is that "A" list blogs should be exempt from this rule because

Re: How email encryption should work

2005-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
ils a certificate asserting that holder of that key can be reached at that email address." --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xvP3RO30rRc2fw0ArT3XUSEsygxK3zrL1Wu7jC7N 4tJfMev2Cd5X96wjDddtEB7mMPVaXk1ImGBnvo3fC

How email encryption should work

2005-03-28 Thread James A. Donald
, a warning comes up – an unobtrusive and easily ignored warning if he has never received a signed message from that source, a considerably stronger warning if he has previously received signed mail from that source. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwv

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
lent goods in exchange for our rather dubious and shaky dollars so abundantly printed by the Bush administration, is that the chinese banking system is even more dubious and shaky. Chinese prefer to stash their wealth in America, rather than in China. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
o unwilling to change the official price. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HsbCTO3R0hDvTi4O2HOi/0Y0UtIUZ/LWAkI3C0Wg 4aRr/HrQ9ZtcE0cqgSbp57xoZ1X3xpgldD4zNHi5M

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-10 Thread James A. Donald
tell us that the principle of rewarding uploaders and storers, and starving leachers, is pretty much central to the success of a protocol and its software. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG MHH97gJAm7xaefDsVkckpP3M1T3kFYcHHE4T6q

Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
word, and dictionary attacks should be sufficiently expensive that a strong password (not your ordinary password) is secure. Can anyone suggest a well reviewed, unpatented, protocol that has the desired properties? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3Y

SpookAir, redux: No Secrets -- Eyes on the CIA

2005-02-28 Thread James A. Donald
, the authorities received only selected excerpts, only what the owner of the records chose to reveal. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PS5fDA87MKS6uCbiF0gJ/R+39ekRuwLazrAsTyAa 4MxSlekoFzNrLXER1RoAItoikUPxKn3udKQokRxkB

Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
ing - needs to be fixed by implementing cryptographic procedures that are so old that they are in danger of being forgetten. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Dn3N69hcbr+mL/HUTw8OhGtKmD9rHYOMN4NTBkIY 47AOCXrb7e35xm5QBsHbFVr/jfm+XwTUvzdiytKpG

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-16 Thread James A. Donald
urpose of attacking private property rights. You want to steal something like land or women, you need a really big gang. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG of/pZSLkKATIjG0fWzPvEZnxIsBE/Q0Se80Gx178 4LGYWiIfc2+Us4l38hwPX8mK0CR7hBpVkJ952v8/D

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > > As governments were created to smash property rights, > > > they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those > > > with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the > > > most property. Steve Thompson > &g

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-02-16 Thread James A. Donald
reak time of SHA256 from 2^128 to a mere 2^109 or so. So SHA256 should be OK. 2^69 is damn near unbreakable. 2^80 is really unbreakable. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IQqit8pqSokARYxy1xVLrTaVRSKMAGvz2MXbQqXi 4DAQZgw0sbP3OcD3kgO+x7f+VfsPD4E8EBsB96d/D

SHA-1 broken?

2005-02-15 Thread James Brim
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html damn chinese.

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-14 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > The state was created to attack private property rights - > > to steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but > > from the beginning, always at the expense of other rich > > people. On 14 Feb 2005 at 13:18, ken wrote: > More

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will > > attack you. > > > > That is the difference between private power and government > > power. ken wrote: > But in most places at most times the state is run at least >

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Corporate lawyers did not descend on Linux until there were > > enough wealthy linux users to see them in court, and send > > in their own high priced lawyers to give them the drubbing > > they deserved. Eugen Leitl > You're misinterpre

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > There is nothing stopping you from writing your own > > operating system, so Linus did. Eugen Leitl wrote > Yes. Corporate lawyers descending upon your ass, because you > -- allegedly -- are in violation of some IP somewhere. See > you

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-09 Thread James A. Donald
e suffering under that yoke > today. There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did. If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will attack you. That is the difference between private power and government power. --digsig Jame

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread James A. Donald
ghly equal. It is a potentially disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6B7i0tiB4vUHqQnAP6nXT2z+B+zLB8624+K6+ENU 47fFHg6cY0KInzxMe/l+L2c7LqmPZyrwOSZepYIR3

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, > > and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the > > CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they > > would have instantly leaked the information, the same

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-24 Thread James A. Donald
gt; definitely be expanded! Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they would have instantly leaked the information, the same way they have leaked so much other stuff.)

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > Oh wow, let us expand our current highly popular and > > successful Iraqi operation to embrace a quarter of the > > world. Wouldn't it be nice? No, come to think of it, it > > would not be nice. "J.A. Terranson" > Since

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss > > people off. They need a government that is strong enough to > > intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them. "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Since

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
tes. The problem is states like North Korea, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, which are not failing, but damn well should. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG KZbrHZ/MYP584OnYd7NsjZjmUpn8Srn0ydIoe269 4ATqczLXXya6Ei6jVdqfx7nHh1/Fdp6s6+VCLrdwO

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
worry which of those who received our arms are good guys and which are bad guys after the regime falls. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG lYYew1mXLqlqClNWre3iWNTQSdUjC3dM+wojwWKP 4ZzkUnYtfu/tX/c5VsLePUrbbJ15Ww5uBlRvLj+Ut

Re: Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

2005-01-02 Thread James A. Donald
The title of this post is misleading: The protest is anti government, and pro property rights. For example: > [...] "People can see how corrupt the government is while they > barely have enough to eat," said Mr. Yu, reflecting on the > uprising that made him an instant proletarian hero If he

Re: Finally, the Killer PKI Application

2004-12-24 Thread James A. Donald
to remain flexible > and not to specify a particular encryption/signing > technology. Or in other words, due to the fact that PKI sucks, they have left the door open for a replacement. > now the investment may finally be realized. I don't think so. --digsig James A.

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2004-12-21 Thread James
Want a cheap Watch? http://imo.nepel.com

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2004-12-20 Thread James
Want a cheap Watch? http://crt.nepel.com

Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

2004-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
fail, unless someone immerses the camera in liquid helium. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YIh62RYRs2hLkj/bbMuhph73iWN9Kmjo6IJ27mBf 4RyyRBC0ayoxtSug4pB9k+d7sjGlnt3gsa6yVYFy5

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2004-12-13 Thread James
Do you want a Watch? http://ftj.hensi.com

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
er third are > trivially "protected", and the remaining third have done the > best they can under the circumstances This may explain the lack of wardriving. Why bother to drive? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG GZxQHl5Ys94J

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
I go down the street and steal some bandwidth just because I find it a change to work in the open air. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG hOnTAnMFC4mbjwvyxYfLSmvpUXtw2xutPOvdyU0k 4Jx3r8szirxwjD/2L68Q0/BDk3jSlebytG9a9+2IQ

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
s that it conceals your threat model. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG aV25L9tGoz00uU3bzcY+rbFDV5nX9BCkK67CRwcd 4mBXnVakFBPiPRCdugeDolUdtnd8iueWgYFwR3Pch

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2004 at 19:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > In short, except for those few people who have some use for > MixMaster, MixMaster was stillborn. As one of those few people who have had some use for Mixmaster, it does not seem stillborn to me. --digsig James A.

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people > > with the wrong accent caught in Afghanistan, tend to wind > > up in Guantanamo Bay is not because Afghan warlords are > > taking orders from US overlords, it is because Afghan > >

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
rties in Iraq, at the same time he is busily subverting US enemies in Iran. He has his own agenda, which on some matters agrees with the US agenda, and others contradicts the US agenda. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2c9x3Egs

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2004-12-04 Thread James
Do you want a cheap Watch? http://uxd.hensi.com

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- Major Variola: > > > Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can > > > always be defeated by cranking up the police state a > > > notch. > > > > > > This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. James A. Donald: > > Th

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Permanent holy war in Iraq would keep them busy and out of > > mischief WITHOUT permanent large involvement from American > > military. Steve Thompson > True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and > man-years that would

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
ighting dying, and if it means destroying the village to save it, serves the goat fuckers right. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG QILwOoAZoZRoKhP5l5fyQXQ021Gs0UkjXIXPRZ3A 4zkLA6Uyu1rxD5xgNBbsjEbA+HajLJfiHBPRZEEK3

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-28 Thread James A. Donald
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG j/Q7ovPCBpocpAweY6EuWipd1SYuu09GuF0FDGs4 4F1phVigtAvUzPhC0QjPDP/3SKkY4KUtZc5hRUL9a

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
children, for example the shelling of Kabul. The relief that people expected to obtain by submitting to Taliban rule was not relief from fighting each other, but relief from indiscriminate Taliban attacks. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A Donald wrote... > > What made [Afghanistan] a breeding ground for terrorism was > > not civil war, but diminuition of civil war. The problem > > was that the Taliban was damn near victorious. If the US > > government had maintained the relationship

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Seems to me that permanent civil war in Iraq provides > > Americans with the same benefits as democracy in Iraq, > > though considerably more reliably. Steve Thompson > You might be more accurate to say that a permanent [civil] > war in Iraq b

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? On 24 Nov 2004 at 2:42, Bill Stewart wrote: > Well, once you get past the invalid and dishonest parts of > Bush's 57 reasons We Need to Invade Iraq Right Now (WMDs, > Al-Qaeda, Tried to kill Bus

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? John Kelsey > At least three: > > a. The pottery barn theory of foreign affairs--we'd be > blamed for making things worse. And if we do nothing, we are also blamed for making things worse: Observ

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A Donald wrote... > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? Tyler Durden > And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. > > Oh wait, I guess I have to explain that. After the Soviets > were pushed out of Afghanistan the place became a veritable > breeding gr

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-23 Thread James A. Donald
ay, or we'd have wound up setting off > a civil war. And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG x5H8AGNAFwoPy8fyvCAHj64dIL55pbnwnQFgENLL 4PH/mFu1yrhhrF9zduNJT5lUkHHJFlT99/IhXMPeT

Re: Gettin' Our Scots-Irish Up

2004-11-16 Thread James A. Donald
ay be putting on country-boy airs, but they're still > elitists... Perhaps, but it is characteristic of american conservatives to claim to be rednecks or hillbillies - and characteristic of american leftists to condemn their opponents as trailer park trash, rednecks, hillbillies, and sist

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-14 Thread James A. Donald
but the fact that everything has to be cleared with the top, the fact that low level people are forbidden to think. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 56D0bYHQzFhVoqs5hSQzS0qvgik5OwJHVAMVGSfz 4FvsMZXY2Yed7To20MoGIPJ3rszxf79ZaE6XvYlpG

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-14 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Qin had a cult of personality, in which every single person > > subject to his control had to participate. A subject of > > Qin, like a subject of Mao, was more aware of Qin, than he > > was of his mother and father. Tyler Durden: >

Re: Iraq II, Come to think of it (was...China's wealthy)

2004-11-13 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Pol Pot's Cambodia was, like Ch'in dynasty china, > > decentralized in that they had twenty thousand separate > > killing fields, but was, like Ch'in dynasty china, highly > > centralized in that the man digging a ditch dug it a

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
until the Soviet Union reacted, and it took the Soviet Union near a year to react. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG /wF4zwpFvF9ac/DnBvXxdZOBgq+OgBH5WtuPImjY 4mzi4xYS1k3UR5wq20+FtKNGU4wV3pYRcCYMs0tjT

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
hly centralized in that the man digging a ditch dug it along a line drawn by a man far away who had never seen the ground that was being dug. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG kIKFSkaq39tHojTf6+FAu2WFT3X6iHJMyTUNi7kx 4kLyg7PvSEfnbAOwjYFVGCmxNpP52VH6X9inrj6cM

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
ition was not against foreigners sailing, but chinese sailing, so the intent was not fear of foreigners, but as with the iron curtain, fear of chinese wandering outside government control and being contaminated with unauthorized foreign thoughts. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- ken wrote: > > And when was this stagnation? R.A. Hettinga wrote: > Two words: Ming Navy For those who need more words, the Qing Dynasty forbade ownership or building of ocean going vessels, on pain of death - the early equivalent of the iron curtain. --digsig

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
s merely a bunch of teenagers obeying orders, merely the simulation of a mass movement, with mass compliance instead of mass initiative. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG A3r+IPhnwM5iwqn01H7AuV9g1K9PgqLsYSmZVb6P 4ewsr2ejzouasJCmgOSl3a3j3FucBkMACrPcAsosX

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald. > > China stagnated because no thought other than official > > thought occurred. On 12 Nov 2004 at 15:40, ken wrote: > And when was this stagnation? Started soon after the Qing dynasty > And what were the reasons China did not "stagnate"

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
centralized totalitarian terror state, which doubtless appears quite enlightened to the likes of Tyler Durden. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG k9Dumf7XMAhNCRDuxNd2aKQtrN2PqD2p2l3TDcjw 4SMVqw0LGnr3oZKU5v0WQpooJ4tKHdZvNiokzj2e9

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- James Donald: > > However Confucianism vs Daoism/Taoism is rather different > > from what you would get in the west. Confucianism is > > somewhat similar to what you would get if western cultural > > conservatives allied themselves with nazi/commies, in the &

Re: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-12 Thread James A. Donald
of issued by Pol Pot's regime. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG w8wf5p0VKgycj9Ld3q9wBJikPRDq7/6mG2fem3Oi 481l46Enne+sD9gu1SutixMgpaZcYscUEn7FHAJPG

Re: The Full Chomsky

2004-11-11 Thread James A. Donald
om/chomsdis.htm, but the same story could be written, and indeed has been written, of everything he writes. If you complain that his lies in support of the Khmer Rouge are old news, I will do a similar number on his more recent lies about the Afghan famine. --digsig James A.

Re: China's wealthy bypass the banks

2004-11-10 Thread James A. Donald
egotiation. So in the west, we have ordinary people forbidden from doing banking stuff, but a pile of loopholes in that law, and we do not have the death penalty for unauthorized banking, whereas in China, they do have the death penalty, and despite the death penalty, massive defiance of the law.

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2004-11-10 Thread James
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Re: In a Sky Dark With Arrows, Death Rained Down

2004-11-07 Thread James A. Donald
with it. It did not matter who took you prisoner. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG QwzmnNSSaHhQhQItWATHwnWB7cLchcXDK+wV1pDP 4p0FRureqYrveRbFxz5h7VDonlv9au7JlTFdp/2BL

Re: The Values-Vote Myth

2004-11-07 Thread James A. Donald
re effectually. You vote for Kerry because you think he is a liar? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG EDbRclDc5acD10EGJi0ScHZfE2IslIbsawTQvj54 4jjneZ53XniQe2NYlNlFO5PGLTN5vTyDLI5okTjKv

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-06 Thread James A. Donald
-- James Donald: > > I routinely call people like you nazi-commies. Eugen Leitl wrote: > How novel and interesting. > > Cut the rhetoric, get on with the program. Cypherpunks write code. I also write code, unlike people like you. See for example www.echeque.com/Kong --digsig

Re: In a Sky Dark With Arrows, Death Rained Down

2004-11-06 Thread James A. Donald
dreds. Presumably the armor improved (and became heavier and more expensive) in response to the battle of Agincourt. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wY4Gt1+GdEkqgNLQxKrMduPJSg/k6DEUpWEGeADc 48Orz+xAb/+RsojnqG7H/GLzb+Ll5QWvCCvF9MkuG

Re: In a Sky Dark With Arrows, Death Rained Down

2004-11-06 Thread James A. Donald
bles and having them ransomed back, rather than hacking them to > pieces on the spot. Wrong French nobles were taken prisoner in the usual fashion, but executed because the English King commanded them executed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YY

Re: Why Americans Hate Democrats-A Dialogue

2004-11-06 Thread James Donald
routinely call people like you nazi-commies. As George Orwell observed, anyone who thinks there is a significant difference between nazis and commies is in favor of one or the other. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG tcPPLhn9aMTaLb/hq3C0

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-04 Thread James A. Donald
still at it, even though the masters no longer even pretend to be acting to defend the poor and oppressed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG QeJ5sNOExxqx0Vq7NTG0bDDnwEip8vKbsX9+9d8i 4IDiep3tuDmwKA77n4H3u9nHRV2g6oqOWQkRYfFcW

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread James A. Donald
medy this problem, Bush should confiscate the Middle Eastern oil reserves. You are using stale old communist rhetoric - but today's terrorists no longer not even pretend to fight on behalf of the poor and oppressed. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3Tdzcl

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- Peter Gutmann wrote: > Fighting an unwinnable war always seems to produce the same type of > rhetoric, It is a little premature to call this war unwinnable. The kill ratio so far is comparable with Britain's zulu war. --digsig James A. Donald 6Y

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread James A. Donald
ces muddy. The enemies are the one's that have heroic fantasies of holding out against hopeless odds, as for example Fallujah. The question is not whether the terrorists keep Falljah, but merely whether Pentagon gets a city or a pile of rubble. --digsig James A. Donal

Re: This Memorable Day

2004-11-03 Thread James A. Donald
status on Muslims they did not agree with in Afghanistan. An anarchic America would not be able to occupy Iraq, nor would it be capable of "building democracy" in Afghanistan, but it would be able to do the equivalent of sending special forces to assist the Northern Alliance.

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Re: Winning still matters, etc...

2004-10-31 Thread James A. Donald
s bullet ridden sons or honest soul searching. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG nVs3V7urdcH8GOjfhlNYzb0/JWqCDKupA3RE8WE3 4YdwLgC/LWPMsXcHeSFlqJW/NrcK/eDjuprNNcJok

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