On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:02:12AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
There is another side to the MPAA's super-DMCA state
legislation. In addition to its impact on use of encryption, vpns,
firewalls and so forth it also sets forth new non-federal restrictions
on possession and used of radio
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On 30 Mar 2003 at 23:29, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Don't know where you got this idea from, the First Papal
Inquisition in 1232 was specifically for witches and
sorcerers. And a bit later, in the Burning Times (1450-1700
roughly) the church burned and hanged hundreds of thousands
of
At 06:34 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, stuart wrote:
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this...
You give too much credit to the Romans. Catholicism worked so well
because it is a virus, and conversion was often forced upon heathens by
their fellow countrymen.
Interestingly though,
As for the how, one wonders some form of fake-stego can't be
incorporated somehow into non-stego programs, such as zip/compression
utilities, file-sharing and so on.
For very-low-bandwidth data transfers hidden in wideband streams, we could
maybe use timing of packets. Wouldn't work with more
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On 30 Mar 2003 at 16:40, Harmon Seaver wrote:
The number of women, in particular, who were murdered by
the church is pretty
high, not just during the initial conversion but also
during the following Inquistion.
You are deluded.
The church murdered perhjaps a thousand or so women
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:34:08PM -0500, stuart wrote:
First of all, 'wicca' is some bullshit thought up by a delusional old
man less than 75 years ago, the only persecution of wiccans the world
has seen is when they get made fun of in high school.
Don't know where you got this idea
At 11:39 PM 3/30/2003 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Very, very few religions, other than the judeo/christer/islamic, are
interested in forced conversions, or even do any proselytizing at all. Nor do
they usually persecute women. The entire christer theology makes persecution
inevitable. Any
Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote:
[..]
Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland.
No, I do.
No you don't.
But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to when the
christer Romans came and killed off
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:15:46AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote:
[..]
Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland.
No, I do.
No you don't.
But of course, the problems really
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ever heard of caltrops? I hear it's a new growth cottage industry.
Likewise the cheap EMP devices just talked about here. I've been thinking of
There are no cheap EMP devices. You'll need a high voltage capacitor bank
at the very least (I would not
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?
Well, it looks at this point that it would have been a reasonable trade-off, given the millions who have been tortured and murdered in Europe and the Americas since the Council of Nicea in 425 by the offspring of
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:55:46PM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote:
Harmon Seaver wrote:
Encouraging the imperial persecution of a religious minority?
Well, it looks at this point that it would have been a reasonable
trade-off, given the millions who have been tortured and murdered in
At 01:34 PM 3/30/03 -0500, stuart wrote:
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this...
HS Too bad the Romans didn't finish the job of feeding that lot to
the lions
HS a couple of milleniums ago.
A similarly open-minded friend once commented (far too loudly
in a cafe) that
Of course there are limits in regards to freedom of speech. They are as
follows:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble,
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On 31 Mar 2003 at 10:19, Lucky Green wrote:
I am currently in Europe and while I had very little time to
watch TV, I indulged myself last night for a few hours. The
UK stations are as worthless at the US stations: all fluffy
propaganda all the time.
BBC says the west is losing -- on
At 5:44 AM -0800 3/31/03, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:15:46AM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
3. Wicca is a modern invention.
Hardly.
WEIK- [2]. In words connectid with magic and religious notions (in
Germanic and Latin). 1. Germanic suffixed form *WIH-L- in Old
At 01:59 PM 3/30/03 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
Any group of Pranksters willing to buy a bunch of orange traffic cones
and some sawhorses and a few dozen credible-looking street construction
signs
could do almost as well without even a large group support group,
if they got out early in the
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 02:50 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Ever heard of caltrops? I hear it's a new growth cottage industry.
Likewise the cheap EMP devices just talked about here. I've been
thinking of
There are no cheap EMP devices. You'll need a
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote:
I still think the best solution is just huge tanker planes full of LSD
spraying combative groups/areas once a week.
Actually, LSD was considered as an incapacitating chemical weapon. Another
psychedelic, 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, aka BZ, was even
James A. Donald wrote:
Indeed, this He said, she said approach, which treats US reports and
Iraqi reports as equally credible, seems to me like
Baathist propaganda, like anti western bias.
Lying is as natural to governments as breathing is to normal, healthy
people. What makes you think the
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