Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 8:11 PM -0700 9/20/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:57 PM 9/19/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: But the Saudi Arabian elite, of among which Bin Laden was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, are not getting screwed over. 1. you don't get religion 2. UBL's mom was a low-caste yemeni,

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
t 11:38 PM 9/20/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 8:11 PM -0700 9/20/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 2. UBL's mom was a low-caste yemeni, dig? Actually, UBL's *dad* was a low-caste Yemeni, too. And your point is? That you can be wealthy and still find something of the underdog in you, which you

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:57 PM 9/19/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: But the Saudi Arabian elite, of among which Bin Laden was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, are not getting screwed over. 1. you don't get religion 2. UBL's mom was a low-caste yemeni, dig?

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:07 PM 9/19/04 -0700, James A. Donald wrote: I don't recall the American revolutionaries herding children before them to clear minefields, nor surrounding themselves with children as human shields. The yank minutemen were not above taking children as soldiers, any more than Dan'l Boone was

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:42 AM 9/20/04 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: (Remember the Hiroshima bomb was *not* tested, so sure were the scientists. Trinity My understanding (and I am *positive* someone will correct me if I'm wrong) was that there was a shortage of both

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:46 PM 9/19/04 -0700, John Young wrote: Today, even the US uses children in war, 17 being the minimum age to enlist. Others sneak in by lying about their age, some as young as 14. Recruiters look the other way when the kids and their parents lie. Been there, done that. Enlisted in the army at

But they were using 3DES!

2004-09-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
September 20, 2004 ATM Stolen in Third Such Theft in a Month An automated teller machine was stolen from a gas station early Sunday, the third such theft in Orange County since mid-August, police said. The machine was stolen from an Arco just before 4 a.m., using the same method as in the

Project help (redux, with public key)

2004-09-21 Thread auto479809
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My (new, specific for this) public key doesn’t seem to have made its way around to the various keyservers yet, so some of you may have been put off from replying to my last e-mail. Here’s a link: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/[EMAIL

AOL to Sell Secure ID Tags to Fight Hackers

2004-09-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNewsstoryID=6284760 Reuters AOL to Sell Secure ID Tags to Fight Hackers Mon Sep 20, 2004 06:18 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online will begin offering to sell members a security device and service that has been used to safeguard

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:19:30PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: fission rate, ie fewer spare neutrons to spoil the fun. Even pure Pu-239, the result of short irradiation, has a problem with premature ejaculation. So use a tritium-boosted fission nuke. Not as hard to do a true fusion

Re: Geopolitical Darwin Awards

2004-09-21 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 8:12 PM -0700 9/20/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The yank minutemen were not above taking children as soldiers, any more than Dan'l Boone was above taking a 14 year old as a wife. That's more a definition of adult, than anything else. If they're old enough to blee-... Oh, forget it...