Quoting Khoder bin Hakkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[faustine]
> More interestingly, s/he neglects to include this disqualifier from
> State Secrets:
>
> >>Allegiance to the United States
>
> Conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying
> include:
>
> d. Involvement
> Oh, and I can't believe I almost forgot--I'm sure you'll be
> tickled pink to learn that ever having had anything to do with
> you can be the kiss of death as far as getting clearance is
> concerned. From the adjudication guidelines:
>
> http://www.dss.mil/training/adr/adjguid/adjguidF.htm
>
> "
At 09:22 PM 4/6/02 -0800, John Young wrote:
>Kahn's right, and admirably so, for once you get access
>to classified material you are doomed to be distrusted
>outside the secret world.
Another reason: once you get a clearance, you can't speak
freely. The latest _Tech Review_ interviews an MIT Pr
>>To be blunt, no official can be trusted, period, nor can any of their
contractors who have agreed to abide the official rules. Which, as oft
stated here, includes all state-empowered and privilieged professionals,
from architects to lawyers to doctors to priests to acupuncturists, and not
l
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Faustine wrote:
> >I'm not an expert on this,
>
> Then why aren't you following your own advice?
By being not an expert on this I mean I haven't worked excessively with
HCN (I tried smelling it once), nor administered LD50 tests personally.
> If anyone is interested in le
Quoting John Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> To be blunt, no official can be trusted, period, nor can
> any of their contractors who have agreed to abide
> the official rules. Which, as oft stated here, includes
> all state-empowered and privilieged professionals,
> from architects to lawyers to doc
Disinfo is a complicated topic, and it's not easy to know
for sure when it is occurring; if it was easy to tell then
it wouldn't be very effective disinfo.
For all its admirable reputation RAND continues to
be a forum for disinformation of high quality. This
follows from its classified work and t
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Eugene wrote:
>I have not followed this thread closely,
So why bother to chime in with your two cents before spending the five
minutes it would take to learn what's been going on?
>but could clueless posters please shut up, for a change? Instead o
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Major Variola wrote:
>>Absolutely, these are often erroneous and badly written. Yes, you have
>>every right to expect to see disinformation in them. But in this case,
>>there's nothing lethal about adding sodium cyanide to a urea nitrate bomb--
>If
Faustine wrote:
> I have a hunch the DoD would like nothing better than to see
> leakees go totally
> apeshit on leakers as "disinformation spreaders." Do their dirty
> work, save
> them the trouble: sounds perfectly in line with Rumsfeld's doctrinal
> emphasis on "deterrence by denial" to me. Go
At 10:45 AM 4/5/02 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>Well, given how hot he was last month about the idea of someone who
seemed to
>be deliberately feeding him a line of disinformation, I just thought it
was
>important not to throw an accusation like that around which reflects
badly on
>the manual donor, es
At 09:15 PM 4/4/02 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>And as long as you don't recommend that John call out the Snackycake
Posse on
>the poor schmoe who sent him the manual thinking he was trying to help,
I
>honestly couldn't care less.
I don't think anyone has accused JY of intentional disinfo; he is
large
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One more time:
> > Either or, is it? Are you totally unfamiliar with the concept of coupling
> > high explosives with chemical agents? Good god, no wonder you're so
> > confused.
> 1. Ad hominem is a sign of weakness.
But you genuinely seem confuse
> Either or, is it? Are you totally unfamiliar with the concept of coupling
> high explosives with chemical agents? Good god, no wonder you're so confused.
1. Ad hominem is a sign of weakness.
2."Chemical agent" can mean anything. "coupling" can mean anything.
3. Your statements are empty and w
Faustine wrote:
> > [...] Darwinian justice.
>
> >>I don't know much about Darwin (nothing), but I am interested why there's
> >>Darwinian justice.
>
>Oh, it's just a kind of poetic shorthand. The way I see it, the American idea
>of justice as conceived by the Founding Fathers and made plain in th
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Morlock:
>I never mentioned that there are no chemical devices using H2SO4 and NaCN (and
>it's hardly a "bomb", H2SO4 + 2 NaCN = Na2SO4 + 2 HCN is not an explosive
>reaction, although it does generate some heat.) I said that these two are NOT
>compo
At 11:20 PM 4/3/02 -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote:
>> Bomb components, silly. "Everything" was in the "bomb", capiche?
Common
>> usage, as found on the web:
>
>The point of the exercise was to underline the disinformation content.
If you
>argue this, then you should provide an example of a bomb which
> >H2SO4 and NaCN are "components" of CO(NH2)2HNO3 less than Frank Zappa's piss
> >and Elvis' shit are part of Faustine (and she does contain several billion
> >atoms from those two components).
>
>
> Bomb components, silly. "Everything" was in the "bomb", capiche? Common
> usage, as found on th
>This is anarchists-cookbook-style disinfo.
While mighty US military think tanks prepare for Homeland defense against
total cretins, I wonder if it's time for citizenry to hire professionals
for the real defense. Not that I expect that talibanladens will be contracted
any time soon again (the eff
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Faustine wrote:
Morlock wrote:
> I think someone got careless: terrorists have used sodium cyanide in
> their "urea nitrate bombs"--the first WTC bombing, as a matter of fact.
> Look it up. The compound referred to as an "explosive used by terrorists
> I think someone got careless: terrorists have used sodium cyanide in
> their "urea nitrate bombs"--the first WTC bombing, as a matter of fact.
> Look it up. The compound referred to as an "explosive used by terrorists"
> was primarily urea nitrate based, and indeed contained all the components
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