Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A Donald wrote... > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? Tyler Durden > And the answer is: 9/11 sucked. > > Oh wait, I guess I have to explain that. After the Soviets > were pushed out of Afghanistan the place became a veritable > breeding gr

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? John Kelsey > At least three: > > a. The pottery barn theory of foreign affairs--we'd be > blamed for making things worse. And if we do nothing, we are also blamed for making things worse: Observ

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A Donald wrote... > > What made [Afghanistan] a breeding ground for terrorism was > > not civil war, but diminuition of civil war. The problem > > was that the Taliban was damn near victorious. If the US > > government had maintained the relationship

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > > And the problem with a civil war in Iraq is? On 24 Nov 2004 at 2:42, Bill Stewart wrote: > Well, once you get past the invalid and dishonest parts of > Bush's 57 reasons We Need to Invade Iraq Right Now (WMDs, > Al-Qaeda, Tried to kill Bus

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Seems to me that permanent civil war in Iraq provides > > Americans with the same benefits as democracy in Iraq, > > though considerably more reliably. Steve Thompson > You might be more accurate to say that a permanent [civil] > war in Iraq b

Re: geographically removed?

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG j/Q7ovPCBpocpAweY6EuWipd1SYuu09GuF0FDGs4 4F1phVigtAvUzPhC0QjPDP/3SKkY4KUtZc5hRUL9a

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-29 Thread James A. Donald
children, for example the shelling of Kabul. The relief that people expected to obtain by submitting to Taliban rule was not relief from fighting each other, but relief from indiscriminate Taliban attacks. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-12-01 Thread James A. Donald
ighting dying, and if it means destroying the village to save it, serves the goat fuckers right. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG QILwOoAZoZRoKhP5l5fyQXQ021Gs0UkjXIXPRZ3A 4zkLA6Uyu1rxD5xgNBbsjEbA+HajLJfiHBPRZEEK3

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-12-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Permanent holy war in Iraq would keep them busy and out of > > mischief WITHOUT permanent large involvement from American > > military. Steve Thompson > True, but there's a question of the waste of resources and > man-years that would

Re: geographically removed?

2004-12-01 Thread James A. Donald
-- Major Variola: > > > Internal resistance mediated by cypherpunkly tech can > > > always be defeated by cranking up the police state a > > > notch. > > > > > > This is eg why e-cash systems have anonymity problems. James A. Donald: > > Th

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
er third are > trivially "protected", and the remaining third have done the > best they can under the circumstances This may explain the lack of wardriving. Why bother to drive? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG GZxQHl5Ys94J

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > The reason that taliban caught in Afghanistan, and people > > with the wrong accent caught in Afghanistan, tend to wind > > up in Guantanamo Bay is not because Afghan warlords are > > taking orders from US overlords, it is because Afghan > >

RE: Blinky Rides Again: RCMP suspect al-Qaida messages

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
s that it conceals your threat model. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG aV25L9tGoz00uU3bzcY+rbFDV5nX9BCkK67CRwcd 4mBXnVakFBPiPRCdugeDolUdtnd8iueWgYFwR3Pch

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 9 Dec 2004 at 19:47, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > In short, except for those few people who have some use for > MixMaster, MixMaster was stillborn. As one of those few people who have had some use for Mixmaster, it does not seem stillborn to me. --digsig James A.

Re: Mixmaster is dead, long live wardriving

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
I go down the street and steal some bandwidth just because I find it a change to work in the open air. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG hOnTAnMFC4mbjwvyxYfLSmvpUXtw2xutPOvdyU0k 4Jx3r8szirxwjD/2L68Q0/BDk3jSlebytG9a9+2IQ

Re: punkly current events

2004-12-13 Thread James A. Donald
rties in Iraq, at the same time he is busily subverting US enemies in Iran. He has his own agenda, which on some matters agrees with the US agenda, and others contradicts the US agenda. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2c9x3Egs

Re: Flaw with lava lamp entropy source

2004-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
fail, unless someone immerses the camera in liquid helium. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG YIh62RYRs2hLkj/bbMuhph73iWN9Kmjo6IJ27mBf 4RyyRBC0ayoxtSug4pB9k+d7sjGlnt3gsa6yVYFy5

Re: Finally, the Killer PKI Application

2004-12-27 Thread James A. Donald
to remain flexible > and not to specify a particular encryption/signing > technology. Or in other words, due to the fact that PKI sucks, they have left the door open for a replacement. > now the investment may finally be realized. I don't think so. --digsig James A.

Re: Talking Back to Power: China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

2005-01-03 Thread James A. Donald
The title of this post is misleading: The protest is anti government, and pro property rights. For example: > [...] "People can see how corrupt the government is while they > barely have enough to eat," said Mr. Yu, reflecting on the > uprising that made him an instant proletarian hero If he

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
tes. The problem is states like North Korea, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, which are not failing, but damn well should. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG KZbrHZ/MYP584OnYd7NsjZjmUpn8Srn0ydIoe269 4ATqczLXXya6Ei6jVdqfx7nHh1/Fdp6s6+VCLrdwO

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Terrorists, as we discovered in Afghanistan, tend to piss > > people off. They need a government that is strong enough to > > intimidate the locals to refrain from killing them. "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Since

Re: Feral Cities

2005-01-16 Thread James A. Donald
worry which of those who received our arms are good guys and which are bad guys after the regime falls. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG lYYew1mXLqlqClNWre3iWNTQSdUjC3dM+wojwWKP 4ZzkUnYtfu/tX/c5VsLePUrbbJ15Ww5uBlRvLj+Ut

Re: Spotting Trouble Identifying Faltering and Failing States (1997)

2005-01-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > Oh wow, let us expand our current highly popular and > > successful Iraqi operation to embrace a quarter of the > > world. Wouldn't it be nice? No, come to think of it, it > > would not be nice. "J.A. Terranson" > Since

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-26 Thread James A. Donald
gt; definitely be expanded! Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they would have instantly leaked the information, the same way they have leaked so much other stuff.)

RE: Ronald McDonald's SS

2005-01-26 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Note that the main enemy it is aimed against is the CIA, > > and it's existence was successfully kept secret from the > > CIA for this time. (For had the CIA detected it, they > > would have instantly leaked the information, the same

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-07 Thread James A. Donald
ghly equal. It is a potentially disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 6B7i0tiB4vUHqQnAP6nXT2z+B+zLB8624+K6+ENU 47fFHg6cY0KInzxMe/l+L2c7LqmPZyrwOSZepYIR3

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-09 Thread James A. Donald
e suffering under that yoke > today. There is nothing stopping you from writing your own operating system, so Linus did. If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will attack you. That is the difference between private power and government power. --digsig Jame

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-10 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > There is nothing stopping you from writing your own > > operating system, so Linus did. Eugen Leitl wrote > Yes. Corporate lawyers descending upon your ass, because you > -- allegedly -- are in violation of some IP somewhere. See > you

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > If, however, you decline to pay taxes, men with guns will > > attack you. > > > > That is the difference between private power and government > > power. ken wrote: > But in most places at most times the state is run at least >

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Corporate lawyers did not descend on Linux until there were > > enough wealthy linux users to see them in court, and send > > in their own high priced lawyers to give them the drubbing > > they deserved. Eugen Leitl > You're misinterpre

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-15 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald wrote: > > The state was created to attack private property rights - > > to steal stuff. Some rich people are beneficiaries, but > > from the beginning, always at the expense of other rich > > people. On 14 Feb 2005 at 13:18, ken wrote: > More

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > > As governments were created to smash property rights, > > > they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those > > > with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the > > > most property. Steve Thompson > &g

Re: SHA1 broken?

2005-02-17 Thread James A. Donald
reak time of SHA256 from 2^128 to a mere 2^109 or so. So SHA256 should be OK. 2^69 is damn near unbreakable. 2^80 is really unbreakable. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG IQqit8pqSokARYxy1xVLrTaVRSKMAGvz2MXbQqXi 4DAQZgw0sbP3OcD3kgO+x7f+VfsPD4E8EBsB96d/D

Re: What is a cypherpunk?

2005-02-17 Thread James A. Donald
urpose of attacking private property rights. You want to steal something like land or women, you need a really big gang. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG of/pZSLkKATIjG0fWzPvEZnxIsBE/Q0Se80Gx178 4LGYWiIfc2+Us4l38hwPX8mK0CR7hBpVkJ952v8/D

Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
ing - needs to be fixed by implementing cryptographic procedures that are so old that they are in danger of being forgetten. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Dn3N69hcbr+mL/HUTw8OhGtKmD9rHYOMN4NTBkIY 47AOCXrb7e35xm5QBsHbFVr/jfm+XwTUvzdiytKpG

SpookAir, redux: No Secrets -- Eyes on the CIA

2005-02-28 Thread James A. Donald
, the authorities received only selected excerpts, only what the owner of the records chose to reveal. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG PS5fDA87MKS6uCbiF0gJ/R+39ekRuwLazrAsTyAa 4MxSlekoFzNrLXER1RoAItoikUPxKn3udKQokRxkB

Re: I'll show you mine if you show me, er, mine

2005-03-09 Thread James A. Donald
word, and dictionary attacks should be sufficiently expensive that a strong password (not your ordinary password) is secure. Can anyone suggest a well reviewed, unpatented, protocol that has the desired properties? --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3Y

Re: [p2p-hackers] good-bye, Mnet, and good luck. I'm going commercial! plus my last design doc (fwd from zooko@zooko.com)

2005-03-13 Thread James A. Donald
tell us that the principle of rewarding uploaders and storers, and starving leachers, is pretty much central to the success of a protocol and its software. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG MHH97gJAm7xaefDsVkckpP3M1T3kFYcHHE4T6q

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
o unwilling to change the official price. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG HsbCTO3R0hDvTi4O2HOi/0Y0UtIUZ/LWAkI3C0Wg 4aRr/HrQ9ZtcE0cqgSbp57xoZ1X3xpgldD4zNHi5M

Re: Golden Triangle Drug Traffic Arbitrage?

2005-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
lent goods in exchange for our rather dubious and shaky dollars so abundantly printed by the Bush administration, is that the chinese banking system is even more dubious and shaky. Chinese prefer to stash their wealth in America, rather than in China. --digsig James A. Donald

How email encryption should work

2005-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
, a warning comes up – an unobtrusive and easily ignored warning if he has never received a signed message from that source, a considerably stronger warning if he has previously received signed mail from that source. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwv

Re: How email encryption should work

2005-03-30 Thread James A. Donald
ils a certificate asserting that holder of that key can be reached at that email address." --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG xvP3RO30rRc2fw0ArT3XUSEsygxK3zrL1Wu7jC7N 4tJfMev2Cd5X96wjDddtEB7mMPVaXk1ImGBnvo3fC

Re: FEC requesting comments on Internet use

2005-04-05 Thread James A. Donald
itical races. The question then, is how will this prohibition against political speech on specific politicians and campaigns be applied to the internet. "A" list blogs claim to be the press, so the argument is that "A" list blogs should be exempt from this rule because

Re: how email encryption should work

2005-04-12 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > In my blog http://blog.jim.com/ I post "how email > > encryption should work" On 8 Apr 2005 at 22:17, Bill Stewart wrote: > I see a couple of problems with your proposal. I'm not > sure I like your external trusted mail-server > a

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-21 Thread James A. Donald
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:20:46PM +0300, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > Second, has anyone seen http://www.wmtransfer.com/ ? Ok, it's > > Russian, so not a lot of trust in there... on the other hand, it > > DOES mean it's unlikely to bow to US pressure. On 20 Apr 2005 at 19:23, Pawe Krawczyk wrote: >

Re: WebMoney

2005-04-25 Thread James A. Donald
based on such transactions. The real obstacle is that 99% of customers cannot understand WebMoney's security, or use Pecunix's PGP based interface. If you try to sell them Chaumian blinded transactions, the average mobster is going to be seriously boggled. --digsig

Re: Len Adleman (of R,S, and A):

2005-05-23 Thread James A. Donald
ican troops seem to be finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG UB064U/DafELO1g1L+J1elpcp4Rm0O4oDPOO5uH+ 4rzwuJwOGk4RYWsWPOFN78tEmJamA31vLTloe7Rnv

Re: Lions and tigers and iraqi minutemen

2005-05-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > While it doubtless would have been better to behead > > the Saudi monarchy rather than the Iraqi > > dictatorship, nonetheless American troops seem to be > > finding an ample supply of Saudis in Iraq. Major Variola (ret) > In what imaginary

Re: Private Homes may be taken for public good

2005-06-28 Thread James A. Donald
ably Thomas, who voted against this decision. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OATUYUUD6X16QdQnFd2ZgGItmw0TrkkNoR5SYYAZ 4HZTgkPgkgTwPSGrDGUeYo6QjGZU5psCanKPMN479

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [IP] Internet phone wiretapping ("Psst! The FBI is Having

2005-09-09 Thread James A. Donald
-- From: Ulex Europae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay, I've been in a hole in the ground for a few > years. What happened to Tim May? Gone very quiet. At the expiration party, he failed to recommend gas chambers. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-14 Thread James A. Donald
project is advanced by more boring stuff: standards, software, and business. Excessive mention of the ideological implications of certain standards and software would be counterproductive. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+p

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-19 Thread James A. Donald
coffee, that is political? Surely the non state area of our lives is the non political area of our lives. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG OHqLH7EFCEVGI5CkHzpWzDH3Iyd7w5T1TSE3dyUB 4HvAcBSrD8JQfPtYDs3hHfuCbQWprTcJhov+r6b1+

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-20 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > : So when I buy coffee, that is political? Damian Gerow > Is it organic, fair-trade, shade-grown coffee? > Locally grown? Locally roasted? Purchased through > StarBucks or a local coffee shop? Do the growers use > their profits to help the growth of c

Re: The ghost of Cypherpunks

2005-09-20 Thread James A. Donald
t attractive heterosexual women from date rape. These various isms are not marxism, not exactly, but they bare a striking resemblance to their parent. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG JTnG7EwKWGBKCLMjy9fEelUGWOaNVelhzQKnyKWj 4KYcVP6IOe2k/gw1LLqwMfH5ioyRfGUAvNrJFj/2o

Re: Fwd: Re: MIT talk: Special-Purpose Hardware for Integer Factoring

2005-09-22 Thread James A. Donald
tors does in its well known slave labor camps, and the liquidation of the kulaks was self defense against a vicious attempt by the peasants to starve the proletariat. :-) --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ikKvUYkvyBE7ikT3WsIGcsxLztiI6VjO7F+lbUPi 43u1MspIR5iABmysKM+9wkz7R+H7AgDDsuhTSZJ4A

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wikipedia & Tor]

2005-09-28 Thread James A. Donald
n bet that > there are other "obvious" targets that have been > hammered through Tor. In the long run, reliable pseudonymity will prove more valuable than reliable anonymity. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG wE/La87xer

Re: [fc-discuss] Financial Cryptography Update: On Digital Cash-like Payment Systems

2005-10-26 Thread James A. Donald
rorists, because they are just as likely to target you no matter what you do. Government regulators are a bigger problem, since they are apt to forbid any business model they do not understand, but they tend to be more predictable than courts. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-10-26 Thread James A. Donald
valuable secrets, since DRM binds the data to the software, and provides a secure channel to the user. So secrets representing ID, and secrets representing value, can only be manipulated by the software that is supposed to be manipulating it. --digsig James

Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2005-10-28 Thread James A. Donald
hich are mere noise anyway. These problems, however, are no explicitly political, and tend to be addressed on lists that are not explicitly political, leaving cypherpunks with little of substance. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwv

Re: Any comments on BlueGem's LocalSSL?

2005-10-28 Thread James A. Donald
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ctySJF5hgF1q9fil61pohBVLfj/aT4jWZ/KUf29x 4GuXiNXRF+nY3+3LFo8YpvV4w1S5dwf+LcuAsZWWe

Re: Return of the death of cypherpunks.

2005-10-31 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Since cryptography these days is routine and > > uncontroversial, there is no longer any strong > > reason for the cypherpunks list to continue to > > exist. John Kelsey > The ratio of political wanking to technical posts and > of

Re: On the orthogonality of anonymity to current market demand

2005-11-01 Thread James A. Donald
James A. Donald writes: > > Further, genuinely secure systems are now becoming available, notably > > Symbian. Chris Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What does it mean for Symbian to be genuinely secure? How was this > determined and achieved? There is no official definit

RE: The Wimps of War

2003-02-12 Thread James A. Donald
om clear that the US has the necessary will and virtue to apply it in Iraq. The Germans and the French are not very keen on doing it at all, but realizing that position is unpopular, instead say they doubt the US will to do it. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR

Re: M Stands for Moron? You gotta be kidding...

2003-02-14 Thread James A. Donald
ision trillions of trillions of times larger than we can now control. Then we could remake a small region of space time to have physical laws that we might find more convenient for some purposes. All of this, however, seems hard. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZ

Re: Crypto anarchy now more than ever

2003-02-15 Thread James A. Donald
is more likely to use them on Hollywood and New York, which he sees as Jew central, than on Washington. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG uiZiEjO95FxTeiMKMVdRJWhz4aA8aiyXg5robB1O 4hSIDs1M/EEsg1tg9XPSN672+2gUYMy1JvcaEymHs

A prediction

2003-02-19 Thread James A. Donald
prediction that will stay around forever, and that anyone can access. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3rT39X0tK/achxadga6VroywQS4zOG2gO3dRqVMR 4CYbiDrubd6eY/xSd0CfSlyyJD9PAqYEqRlxKFMjS

Re: Blood for Oil (was The Pig Boy was really squealing today

2003-02-20 Thread James A. Donald
> So the US killed a lot of people there, so as to > spread respect for freedom and democracy, and installed another > dictator without elections, or any plan for elections The current leader was elected, not in accordance with western democratic norms that some people want to impose of Afghans

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minoritie s"

2003-02-21 Thread James A. Donald
too much communism. Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG LS0PPszrbHPaadDyv9OpkI1d4Tym+mjxMyowVUMa 4dEsfuHBg8G0mXDn/U8FBak0jzB4WFSXGPt/n1Lt9

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-22 Thread James A. Donald
illustrated in France. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG U48sX6NjfrRrL9phB4/+EDmv+60I2TdKVSEEAb4a 4+X/X9IOWyzrFjI3Sd2AdJhWeQ1dYpT72RgMVDgm4

Re: The burn-off of twenty million useless eaters and "minoritie s"

2003-02-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald > > Highly capitalist nations do not murder millions. On 21 Feb 2003 at 17:09, David Howe wrote: > but their highly capitalist companies sometimes do. Don't be silly. You have been reading too much Lenin. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-24 Thread James A. Donald
7;re doing in the Middle East. Originally, Chomsky claimed that the Khmer Rouge were rebuilding Cambodia, that they were comparable to the french resistance, that the stories of massacres had been repeatedly discovered to be false, and so on and so forth. --digsig James A.

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-28 Thread James A. Donald
", however, it is > important to recognize that often something we think of as > universal is merely universal to those who share our cultural > and historical perspectives. Doubtless among Margaret Mead's happy fun loving socialist free love practicing Samoans, three plus t

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
get the feeling that they would put me in the gulag if they could, along with most of their audience. Similarly recall the debate between Chagnon and his various opponents. The joke so often made about feminists is also very much applicable to those than in the America call themselves liberal

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > You are making all this crap up. Eric Cordian > Each of the stories I cited was reported by multiple news > outlets. Multiple pinko liars. > The Donahue story alone had 12 hits on Google News. Donahue's abysmal ratings disprove the story that Do

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread James A. Donald
r daily lives, depicting the distressing effect on the Palestinians of various Israeli collective punishments. Not sure what station it was on. Terribly earnest public good stuff. Sure the press is biased, but there is plenty of stuff that is very far from pro Israel, even on channels that are open

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
100%" assumption presupposes that "the capitalists" are like the state, a single entity with a single will, in which case it is obvious that simply replacing the will of "the capitalists" with the will of "the people" would be a vast improvement, rather than

Re: Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread James A. Donald
like the internet, where paths tend to ramble in not very direct fashion, the kind of road system an anarchic society, where roads were not made according to any central plan, would produce. Then, there would be no problem with one particular turnpike operator turning away blacks, or turning away whites

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > The difference between private property owners doing this, > > and the governemnt doing this is that 100% of private > > property owners are NOT going to agree on anything. On 9 Mar 2003 at 8:36, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > This presumes the exi

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-14 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > Comie fantasy. That theory is Marx's "monopoly capitalism". > > Commies have been loudly announcing Marx's prophecies to be > > coming true, even though after 1910 they no longer took the > > prophecies seriously themselv

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-14 Thread James A. Donald
to the prayer of the charismatics, where the congregation prays in tongues, rolls on the floor and has fits. The Trotskyists demand greater personal involvement and investment in lying, whereas the Stalinists merely expect the faithful to display solemn credulity. --digsig

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread James A. Donald
y you are telling is part of a big commie lie -- that the US aided the bigoted Taliban against the elightened communists who created a constitutional democracy where every man and every women have a vote, and universal education and health care were guaranteed, etc. --digsig Jame

Re: CDR: Re: Spammers Would Be Made To Pay Under IBM Research Proposal

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
list would be accompanied by payment, which would be something considerably less than a cent, which would yield a profit to the mailing list operators. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Y6FMx3kifAEols9uNP5y5vg8sKYvXPMDutZc4nWU 4vxTg06gsQlG1PONar3AxatOVjnthx9NfjJGIDu6C

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
e war it became apparent that they had far fewer, probably only the twelve that Hekmatyar gave them. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pxk0mbAvt7SxFwMxwrkSN3mDpHDczpZ/IKSVwwwl 4cZ+JYzhHn8RflEW05yx4Hv0MWgjjo0Ywhp9imV1O

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
belongs to a sect that has never had a large following in Afghanistan, which is part of the reason why they drove out much of the Afghan population. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 53Wyhn5mvmbLsfCa8xeusjGGTFC0Ynkauohr4Uov 4nszIWnEYzkvcoHX0K/dqcsoCOCdvV1NwFasx3H/G

Re: When is iraq expected to fall.

2003-03-21 Thread James A. Donald
y will be a defeat. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG pXZ8V7ZVSnZEJTIAOWVcd7RvKnGDxic8agd6TY6o 453h7nDyLl5QIvUPrVvYm1kEJJ/vJpfXSwkzd8wbm

Re: CDR: Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
like me". "Commie" is an explanation for the fact that hostile lies about US allies who fought communists are usually accompanied by favorable lies about the Soviet Union and its servants. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
rom events so far, Iraqi resistance wil not be one of the problems that results. Of course the war is far from over yet, but once it is over, it will indeed be over -- as the war in Afghanistan, against people far tougher and more determined, is over. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
hall see. Rome was not burnt in a day. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG CEot0/Fv5upkisp2OkrlJ7HOSs54PKAvATPS9MMh 4yzGvQnbJbVyDJ/tpJS7TGIrVyZ/9wVT0lt6W2p9a

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-23 Thread James A. Donald
-- Ken Brown: > > > But there certainly was some assistance from the US to > > > the Taliban. US They didn't buy those 500 Stingers in > > > Kmart James A. Donald: > >Commie lies. > > At the beginning of the recent Afghan war the US estimate

Re:Liberation party express concern over war

2003-03-22 Thread James A. Donald
ts is because they have been kissing US ass while simultaneously kissing terrorist ass. It is embarrassing to attack someone who loudly proclaims "I am on your side", even if one is inclined to doubt the sincerity of these loud proclamations. --digsig James A. Donald

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-24 Thread James A. Donald
-- Harmon Seaver: > > > Not inside the cities they can't, not without tons of > > > collateral damage, which will crucify Dubbya and Blair. James A. Donald: > > No one (except the US military which hopes to rule an > > intact Iraq) least of all the prote

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > If the US trys to avoid civilian casualties, this is not > > out of fear and weakness. Indeed, when we observe the > > recent past, it seems that it is failure to commit > > sufficient murder that provokes these attacks. On 24 Mar 2003 at

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
--digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG SKftD3iO5jEjgK/DD7/KHtmYPRg6AxRM6VoCCMVd 4EwomPyztP4ywyl/PXmpq8ssvNutxjj3lMHHPmEb2

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
in the finest universities, amongst the very best people, and the most prestigious publications, with glowing praise. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3ugzZZGkxDJMCzgCZSym0TNHDvLJtovGA0GdGNLC 4eZu4NvyASZJK56sH1lBkFMLUv6ARCl1r7M/m6epB

Re: Things are looking better all the time

2003-03-25 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > The more Iraqi children the US napalms, the safer every US > > resident who works in a tall building will be, and less our > > cities will be troubled with protests. Declan McCullagh > I assume you're joking. I am stating a fact. It

Re: The Highway of Death II

2003-03-26 Thread James A. Donald
ected, nor can Iraqi forces destroy US forces as they expected. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FtNSFBPae6z59xAyY2exgmtSHovSXjkTMnfI4IMO 4558v5+aYMDuew4RXyfpUVz6CiEXUkoxp2eWVN5JB

Re: Quote of the Day, Re: Usenet as solution to Al-Jazeera jamming problem

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
been cancelled by most servers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zGNjNM42e2hEu8yIJrhenqbS0TkNf/6rzBfGJfBN 4YqqQnCTGeWDS3yBqZCEFGENvlML/3pgy37qawJDa

Re: COWed news networks not showing Baghdad market dead

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
ng to obscure the fact -- Baathism is a western ideology -- a mixture of communism and Nazism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG cDyROq05eXVdXrQ/HStZ1tAb4kwCRb+ckvJgOZY0 4wVxnr4we+T1Xk1zbF5T4Ml44xzV8Gn2T1/GmudO/

Re: Practice to Deceive Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan.

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
at program by aggressive imperial war, and the practical effect so far has been to make America less free, rather than Iraq more free, Perhaps a more subtle means would be more likely to succeed, but exporting that program by some means is a sound plan --digsig James A. Donald 6Ye

Re: You just gotta love nepotism

2003-03-29 Thread James A. Donald
e statements featured in Al Jazeera should be taken with a grain of salt. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG BdAiMHKn6ZIesYKMrVBaP5g3BwTahTI2ASoV7Pzy 4oW6DUKSH5GKQvTFbZ+aqxsZmx4RH90QvoFf95BHv

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