Re: cats

2003-09-10 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:40:57PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > >> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." > --David >

Re: cats

2003-09-10 Thread Morlock Elloi
Well, cats *do* have a quite strict hierarchy which is far from ad-hoc establishment of the pecking order. So the analogy dosn't hold with cat behavioral experts. However, if cats could perform anonymized hissing, biting and scratching, then I'm sure that cypherpunk maillist would

Re: cats

2003-09-09 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 08:12 AM 9/9/03 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: >On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: >> "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David >> Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 > > > Cats always have an alpha ca

cats

2003-09-09 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:15:31AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David > Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11 Cats always have an alpha cat. And they often have pissing contests to determine the pecking order.

alley cats (was Re: alpha cats)

2002-04-13 Thread Harmon Seaver
April 20, 10:00pm, New York, NY, Drug War Race and Party. "Alley cat" cycling competition sponsored by the New York Bike Messengers Association, with cyclists role-playing as mock drug runners, picking up money, delivering mock contraband and bailing friends out of jail, racing to checkpoints