Re: signal to noise proposal

2002-03-24 Thread vznuri
ahem, yes I am aware any simple system is easily circumvented & defeated, but that doesnt imply that it will be. Ive noticed many objections to any new proposal often take the form, "but that would be different than what we have now!!!" wow, amazing, no kidding!!! I can come up with all kinds of

signal to noise proposal

2002-03-23 Thread vznuri
hi all. Ive been fascinated with the problem of signal to noise for as long as Ive been dinking around in internet-cyberspace (now over a decade). oldtimers may recall that Ive had many various proposals over the past on the list. it does seem that cypherpunks has succumbed to significant entro

Re: fractional reserve banking as economic parasitism

2002-03-19 Thread vznuri
Mr nescio, I think you have gotten off to a bad start by commenting and (apparently) not reading the paper at all. if you would care to point out which section you have a problem with, it would help me. I am well aware that nobody has any problem with fractional reserve banking in classical econ

Re: fractional reserve banking as economic parasitism

2002-03-18 Thread vznuri
hi mr syreeni if you take a look at the paper, I cover the situations you refer to, namely free market competition of banks & why it is not very workable. its true I am taking the parasite analogy quite far & few are likely to take it very seriously. I dont really expect anyone to pay much attn t

levy's "crypto"

2002-03-11 Thread vznuri
steven levy's "crypto" is finally out in paperback, I just picked up a copy. from a skim, the account is sanitized and a bit overdramatized I would say (in much the way that TCM has stated repeatedly that he hates), but nonetheless outstanding reading. I would like to congratulate TCM, EH, JG, P

"the cancer stage of capitalism"

2002-02-16 Thread vznuri
capitalism as a cancerous growth... would be interested to hear any reactions... maybe this is the wrong crowd :p http://www.gaialounge.com/cancerstage.html

ftc vs spam

2002-02-15 Thread vznuri
sorry guys, I made an error, indeed that other article did not mention the ftc regulating anonymous email. I think I got it mixed up with this one where it says the ftc is fighting spam. http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=640185 maybe I made the action-reaction-solution leap ahead of time.. prepare fo

ftc making noises against anon email

2002-02-14 Thread vznuri
uh oh. ftc making noises against anonymous email as a way to fight spam.. hm http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/02/13/anonymous.email.idg/index.html

"raisethefist" website crackdown

2002-02-03 Thread vznuri
hi all. I heard of another web site shut down in texas or somewhere around the time of the 9-11... what would be good is a public documentation/exposure of all these cases, does anyone know of one??? sort of a cyberspatial ACLU or EFF also I wonder what exactly was on the site below --- Forw

fbi raid anarchists house & web site/raisethefist

2002-02-03 Thread vznuri
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