Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:12:16PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:44:50AM -0800, Tim May wrote: I don't know if this is your reason for expecting not to fly commercially again, but for anyone who thinks trains will somehow be exempted from the national

Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Harmon Seaver
Interesting event, eh? Pretty well timed. They're already saying it wasn't a missle, which may be. Could have been a bomb tho -- pretty weird that it's the first problem they've ever had with a landing, and just happens to have the Israeli onboard. Over Texas too. If it weren't terrs, then it

NASA doesn't check astronauts' ID

2003-02-01 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 10:50 AM 2/1/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: Interesting event, eh? Pretty well timed. They're already saying it wasn't a missle, which may be. Could have been a bomb tho -- pretty weird that it's the Its possible that NASA doesn't check astronauts' ID. So maybe one was a terrorist. [Heh:

Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-01 Thread Tim May
Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have probably already flagged any transactions which mention space shuttle and Columbia to be illegal thoughtcrime sales.) Many tons of debris, scattered over at

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:44:50AM -0800, Tim May wrote: I don't know if this is your reason for expecting not to fly commercially again, but for anyone who thinks trains will somehow be exempted from the national security police state, think again. Right. One Democratic anti-terror

ICBM's and space programs

2003-02-01 Thread Sarad AV
hi, Would countries with an advanced space program and with capilities of launching satellites have ICBM capabilities.if yes can they be sucessfully launched with the knowledge that they can successfully launch medium range missiles (2000 to 3000 km range). Regards Sarath.

Shuttle Humor

2003-02-01 Thread Eric Cordian
PRICELESS - Zionist Entity air force training: $750,000 Unprovoked attack on another country's nuclear installation: $350,000 Bribes to US Congressmen to promote Zionist in Space program: $1,250,000 The look on your

Re: Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-01 Thread John Bethencourt
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:31:16PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have probably already flagged any transactions which mention space shuttle and Columbia to be

Re: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Joseph Ashwood
- Original Message - From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: CDR: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy [snip conspiracy theory] Especially in this case, I'd bet my shoes on Murphy; Columbia was

Encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139

2003-02-01 Thread Declan McCullagh
http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331 http://www.del trontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm Interesting, but I'm confused about the Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard) Encryption/ Decryption with throughput of 712Mbit/ sec Does anyone know about a

Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Interesting event, eh? Pretty well timed. They're already saying it wasn't a missle, which may be. Or they want us to think so, playing double-bluff. (It isn't possible to get a missile up there quickly enough and accurately enough to hit so high and fast target. (Though one can never rule

Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread André Esteves
On Sunday, 2 de February de 2003 01:45, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Thomas Shaddack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Harmon Seaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy [snip conspiracy theory]

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Great how bush's daughter, the cocaine addict, isn't in jail, but this man, who was deputized by the city of oakland to grow this marijuana, is going to be in jail for 20 years. Bush himself was arrested for DUI, I wish he was rotting in jail instead of ed. Hold it...Bush's relationship with

Re: punk and free markets

2003-02-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Silliness. The name cypherpunks was a pun on cyberpunks, a pun suggested by Jude Milhon, a woman writer for Mondo 2000 at the time. Being that there is no body which decides what our group is called, or even that it _is_ a group, saying that someone's pun on top of someone

RE: Encrypted hard drive enclosure for $139

2003-02-01 Thread Lucky Green
Declan wrote: http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=331 http://www.del trontech.com/Enclosure/E3S/E3S.htm Interesting, but I'm confused about the Real-time 64-bit/ 40-bit DES (Data Encryption Standard) Encryption/ Decryption with throughput of 712Mbit/ sec Does

Re: Re: Shuttle Diplomacy

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Shaddack
One of the current theories floating around has to do with a piece of debris that flew off the booster rocket during take-off and collided with the left wing (where the problems began). The video of the take-off was reviewed in great detail and it was determined that it was innocent,

Re: Who owns stuff that falls onto someone's property?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Schear
At 06:01 PM 2/1/2003 -0600, John Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:31:16PM -0800, Tim May wrote: Expect the first EBay auctions of debris from the Columbia to be a constitutional issue soon. (Actually, the censors at fascist EBay have probably already flagged any