Re: "Touching shuttle debris may cause bad spirits to invade your body!"

2003-02-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Last laugh: CNN is carrying (10:06 a.m. PST) an "information" slug at the bottom of a Wolf Blitzer interview: "Columbia was traveling 18 times faster than the speed of light." Yes, "speed of light." " Yo Choate! Want to take a crack at this? Please explain using your theories

Gullible Journalists

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
John Kelsey wrote... "For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source." Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-02-03 Thread Tyler Durden
ocking.) From: Ken Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana? Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:07:52 + Tyler Durden wrote: > And then there's the PERSISTENT rumors of him actually taking an accidental > DEA bust in a Florid

Re: Passenger rail is for adventurers and bums

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
"That's redundant in the modern US. Too bad; there needs to be a counterbalance to the right-wing control freaks, but the left just isn't up to it." Good comment. Indeed, the only thing the Democrats seem to stand for is that they aren't republicans. Meanwhile, the economics of the 'real' left le

Re: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Even t.v. commercials are spreading the meme that Big Brother is our friend." Funny he should mention this. This very morning was watching the news and a commerical came on for a local monitored Burglar alarm system. It featured a Customed Superhero "Alarmo" (I think), going

RE: The Statism Meme

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Don't count on EU, we're just as fucked, albeit with a slight delay. What about Italy? The Italians seem to be remarkably good at ignoring both the vatican as well as their government (which changes every few years and no wonder...do ANY Italians actually pay taxes?). And yet, Northern Italy

The I-talians and Statism

2003-02-04 Thread Tyler Durden
stress hanging from meat hooks very amusing: Once Fasicism fell out of fashion, they turned on their ex-dicatator like a pack of wild dogs (they supposedly dragged those bodies through the streets for days until there wasn't much left!). -TD From: André Esteves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Congressmen in need of composting: Manzanar fine with him

2003-02-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Holy sh*t is this guy stupid. Racist too. I guess anyone who doesn't look/sound/think like this MF is "they". Better round up those blacks while we're at it. -TD "And if I were to have him shot I'D be the one to go to jail!" (Paraphrase of Mr Burns...) From: "Major Variola (ret)" <[EMAIL

Re: Putting the "NSA Data Overwrite Standard" Legend to Death... (fwd)

2003-02-06 Thread Tyler Durden
I've got a question... If you actually care about the NSA or KGB doing a low-level magnetic scan to recover data from your disk drives, you need to be using an encrypted file system, period, no questions. OK...so I don't know a LOT about how PCs work, so here's a dumb question. Will this work

Re: Dr. Evil and Mr. Idiot

2003-02-07 Thread Tyler Durden
The implications of this thing are possibly more disturbing than anything I've been exposed to in the last few months. At least a simplistic analysis would suggest that Downing street whipped up something really fast in order to support the US War Machine. Did they not have any publically stata

Secure Government? Yeah!!!

2003-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
I've been wondering... One might be able to successfully sue a private company (or possibly the government) for NOT encrypting one's private data (ie credit records and so on)...does anyone know if this has been tried before? -TD _

Re: Forced Oaths to Pieces of Cloth

2003-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Bill Frantz wrote... "Except for the fact that one should not trust pledges that are made under coercion, I am reasonably comfortable with this edited version. It expresses the ideal nation that I wish the United States would become." Well, this is probably a lot better than nothing, particula

Re: DOJ quietly drafts USA Patriot II w/crypto-in-a-crime penalty

2003-02-09 Thread Tyler Durden
"I always thought that breathing during the commission of a crime should result in an extra five to ten years in prison." Or, failure to inform authorities of your specific plans to commit a crime should result in an additional 5 to 10. -TD From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gr

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-10 Thread Tyler Durden
"I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might break the robotic connections" Arguably, 9/11 was a bad trip, and now we're completely freaking out. -TD _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:11:43 -0600 On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:31:56PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > "I'm not so sure this emperor could handle psycedelics. Might > break the robotic con

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Harmon Seaver wrote... As far as actual LSD goes -- none. And I did a couple hundred, anyway. Towards the end (and after it was suggested on the Senate floor that "bad drugs" be created and distributed on the streets to freak out LSD users), many things were sold as "LSD" which were not. I r

RE: The Wimps of War

2003-02-12 Thread Tyler Durden
"why should the U.S. concern itself with making investments in Iraq not directly related to creating and maintaining oil extraction and transport facilities?" This is a continuation of the mythology that extrapolates post-WWII US presence in Germany and Japan ("you know, those Americans really he

Re: My favorite line from the DOJ's latest draft bill

2003-02-12 Thread Tyler Durden
By the time that people were mixing speed with it, actual dosages were much less (adding amphetamines to 250mic LSD is fairly pointless) and >today most, from what I hear, are around 75-100 mic. In the early 80s I remembering getting some of the famous Goofy blotter, rated around 125 ugm

Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Heretic? (fwd)

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Hawking writes about fairly established stuff, the usual black hole stuff. This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've skimm

Wheeler

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
nker as Hawking, perhaps even more so. Wheeler may be the "Tyler Durden" of physicists. (Or maybe Tyler Durden is the Tyler Durden of physicsts!) -TD From: Jim Choate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Scientist - Joao Magueijo - Hero or Hereti

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

2003-02-13 Thread Tyler Durden
Eric Cordian wrote... Continuous math is a dead end. So are strings. Yo! Superstring theory is only "continuous math" because the proper mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the nee

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

2003-02-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Eric Cordian wrote... Perhaps it is so "friggin' hard" because you are trying to do the equivalent of modular exponentiation with Roman numerals. Well, you're kind of missing my point. You said that 'M' was for Moron, and I was pointing out that the Morons working on this theory are in so

Re: Hacking the Bush War Machine

2003-02-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "Sure, the North Koreans are practicing extortion: send us more money and Hennesy cognac or we will rattle our sabers." Both Kim Il Sun (or was that his dad's name) and Saddam Hussein want one thing with "weapons of mass destruction": power. They know that by having some big,

State-sponsored terrorism (Chomsky)

2003-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Norman Nescio wrote... "Yes they are. By definition, intimidation and violence by governments is not terrorism. The fact that the recipient is feeling "terror" is irrelevant. Take back the language." By what definition? State-sponsored terrorism as well as plain old state-terrorism has been cove

Re: The Train Wreck is Proceeding Nicely

2003-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "NATO will unravel (which is good, as its mission ended when the Cold War ended). The U.N. may relocate its HQ to Wien or Geneve, which is appropriate...it is absurd that a world body be located in the heart of America. (This will be good for NYC, actually, though not economica

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

2003-02-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim Veil wrote... Because the money that is "given" to them through these unconstitutional federal gravy-train programs was stolen from me, and millions of other taxpayers at gunpoint. Again, I'm not sure why this results in rancor towards those receiving such funds. It's not like black folks

State-sponsored terrorism (Chomsky): Oh.

2003-02-19 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Nomen Nescio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: State-sponsored terrorism (Chomsky) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:30:04 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:12:23 -0500, you wrote: > > Norman Nescio wrote... > > "Yes they

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

2003-02-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... "It was clear to me at the time that the focus on "black pride" was destructive of _real_ pride." Against my better judgement, I find myself agreeing with this statement on one level. However, it should be noted that the "Black Pride" movement of the late 60s and early 70s wa

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

2003-02-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Shear and Tim May mention some interesting incidents. In Steve Shear's case, there's a mysterious absence of response: "No one asked me about him, I never saw him again and none of the students said a word." "Several days later three of his friends tried to jump me I never saw them a

School of the future

2003-02-19 Thread Tyler Durden
2003 21:23:04 -0500 On Tuesday 18 February 2003 20:16, Bill wrote: > At 5:53 PM -0800 2/17/03, Tyler Durden wrote: > >Any kid coming to school > >with a knife or gun gets thrown out, period. > > Gee, when I was in high school, I was on the high school rifle > team. I stil

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

2003-02-20 Thread Tyler Durden
"Any idea of why the fucker started up with the punching?" As I remember, Schear described himself as 5'2" at the time. Those that feel powerless normally look for someone to have power over. -TD From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Veil) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The burn-off of twenty

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

2003-02-20 Thread Tyler Durden
After scanning hyperpoem.net, we've decided to blacklist you for your far left-wing, socialist views, the quote from Ayn Rand notwithstanding. -- Tom Veil Actually, a turning point in my thinking came a few years ago while watching Fidel Castro talk on CNN from Riverside church. Oddly, I found th

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-20 Thread Tyler Durden
"zmag.org and commiedreams.org gets you blacklisted, as it indicates that one is of the so-called "progressive, leftist" commie totalitarian persuasion." Blacklisted! Sniff sniff...I'm hurt! Does this mean I'm kicked out from the yearbook committee too? And do I have to tear up my "Cypherpunks"

RE: The burn-off of twenty million useless

2003-02-21 Thread Tyler Durden
"If I've been glowingly endorsed by other nyms in good standing (check graph for circlejerk caveat) my reputation is positive. People with really bad mana would tend to camouflage as players with no transaction, so being a new player will always suck. You'll get rewarded by sticking to your nym,

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-21 Thread Tyler Durden
"The reality is even more weird, I think. Suppose there's some struggling-to-make-it new family down the street, and I start helping out by bringing them dinner every night. If I do it for a few days, e.g., while the mom is in the hospital or something, it's a genuine act of kindness. If I d

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Capelli wrote... "Thats a pretty poor analogy. Perhaps a better one is where the robber was first *asked* to steal my watch, (as I could obviously afford another one) and then gave it to someone else. And in fact, if this recipient kept the watch, knowing full well that it had been taken

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-21 Thread Tyler Durden
What part of my above paragraph did you not understand? The rancor part. Let's take your line of reasoning another step. Imagine you get robbed at gunpoint by some masked caucasian. He steals your Ventura watch as well as all your $$$. As you cry and bawl like a little bitch you see the guy ta

Re: Ethnomathematics

2003-02-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Good lord, this sounds like it was practically designed to sabotage the prospects for minorities to excel in mathematics, by encouraging them to waste their efforts on nonsense and useless trivia. This was kind of the thrust of my recent posts on the "black" issue. There's almost the built-in

Re: The next time you see someone on TV in a "newsroom"

2003-02-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Waitisn't this a Philip K Dick book? The president's actually a simulacra made to convince workers to stay below ground because of the terrible war. But the truth is there is no war, and the underground folks are really just slave labor cranking out goods for the elite few up on the surface

Re: Deutsch Jackboots

2003-02-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Furlong wrote.. "Weapons that non-soldiers can't get licenses for" includes pepper spray in NYC." And nunchucks. I remember back in Washington Heights where I grew up, kids were knocking themselves out imitating Bruce Lee with home-made 'chucks (they'd cut a broom handle into sections an

Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-23 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Did you read my full paragraph? Quoting zmag was not the only criteria >I mentioned. Sorry, sir. Next time I'll try harder to decypher your dogmatic rantings. Noam Chomsky is no true anarchist. Chomsky is a commie pinko >totalitarian. Well, since you put it that way, it's GOT t

Deutsch Jackboots

2003-02-24 Thread Tyler Durden
Perhaps one of you crazies can shed some light on this. While grabbing some lunch I passed by the Deutch Bank tower further down on Wall Street. Standing in front is what is clearly no standard $6/hour security gaurd, though he has no uniform. The guy's wearing jackboots and a jumpsuit, and I c

Re: Say Bush is Nuts, Go to Jail

2003-02-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Damn. Some odd details there. Crap I'm getting paranoid. Wait, I may be paranoid but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. So the guy was known to belong to an Anti-Pallestinian group, and this was known to the SS folks prior to him being arrested. So apparently, they were watching this guy. Gulp. But

Durdenian Analysis of Bush's radio address

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
Let me attempt some deconstruction here: > "It will be difficult to help freedom read: "the US" take hold read "take over" >in a country that has known > three decades of dictatorship, secret police, internal divisions, and war." read: in a country where cities are filled with snipers and booby

Re: Man decapitated while fleeing police

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
"This sure sounds like bullshit. How could a body be decapitated falling on a fence like that? The human body just ain't all that fragile." We're probably going to find out the guy's got a few dozen entries wounds in his back, in attempt to alter the man's course as he fell towards the fence. -

Re: Who Owns the News

2003-03-02 Thread Tyler Durden
"Funny. Some time ago I saw some Israelis murder a Palestinian kid on numerous stations, Fox among them." Well, the cynical part of me chalks this up to the fact that there's some vague pro-Palestinean sentiment brewing, and they don't want to get caught with their pants down. -TD From:

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
eting product literature. Nobody actually runs GbE outside their TSB (Tall Shiny Building) or campus...yet (and to date there's no strong indication they will). From: Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
over OC-48 or a single 10GbE (802.11 WAN). -TD From: Mike Rosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cavium Security Processor Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 07:53:13 -0800 (PST) On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Anyo

Re: CAPPS II protest - Vandalizing collaborating airlines

2003-03-03 Thread Tyler Durden
Just some out of the box thinking here about Delta... I wonder. Is there some form of petty vandalism that can be performed by a Delta passenger that would make his flight MUCH less than profitable for Delta? (I mean, one that probably won't get you arrested...) (Vandalism has always been one o

Re: GNUradio and optical TEMPEST

2003-03-06 Thread Tyler Durden
Using the software-DSP approach of GNUradio project and replacing the tuner part of the hardware with the photomultiplier, we can do all the image processing - filtering, integrating - in software, greatly reducing the cost of the equipment. I doubt it. Although I only scanned the article, in gen

Re: Trivial OTP generation method? (makernd.c)

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
On a slow day, Tim May wrote... "Next you'll be claiming that chips can be influenced by cosmic and background radiation!" When I used to characterize DWDM systems, we'd sometimes need to test down to a BER of 10(-14), with some vendors wanting 10(-16). (So we'd loop back a whole bunch of OC-4

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I can only speak about OTDRs. Maybe it could be possible to build a dedicated TDR system intended to be connected to installed cablings, periodically test the cables by sending pulses along them and watch what returns, compare the result with long-term average, and report differences. This

Re: CAPPS II protest - Vandalizing collaborating airlines

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Vandalism is wrong. Yeah, ain't that a shame? Sure is fun though! Education isn't. Well, some of the proposed ideas may be more efficient, but they don't exactly express my rage accurately... -TD Next time you fly, you could leave some flyers in the terminal. They'll get cleaned up, and wh

Re: Cavium Security Processor

2003-03-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Goody goody! Telecom geek talk! (Any chance you're female, curvy, and about 5'8"? What are wearing right now.) Anyway, Bill Stewart wrote... You'd be surprised - we're seeing tons of interest in it at AT&T, partly because of MAN vendors like Yipes and OnFiber (who bought Telseon) and partly b

Re: Anarchy, and confusion

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
"Anarchy doesn't mean "chaos, with people killing each other at will." No? But what about... "I read what some of you folks here write and all I can say is that I hope you are inside the fireballs when the freedom fighters take out the Great Satan." Ah. It's all so clear when you put it like t

Re: .sig

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
"Republicans are like "The Rock" and Democrats are like "Stone Cold Steve Austin", and elections are like "WWF Slap Down". It's fixed, get it? The contest is not between Dems and Repubs, it's between government and the governed." Nice! GOTTA steal that quote (if only there were another board that

Re: CAPSII protest...

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
OOOH! One wonders if a bad enough "air sickness" on a crowded flight could turn a plane back...(And if I say "airline sickness" I don't need the quotes.) Hummif it happened a dozen times within the span of a month do you think they'd notice a pattern? -(the

Re: Give peace a chance?

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
Someone should go into that same mall with "Support the War in Iraq" T-shirts to see if they also get thrown out. What pisses me off is that its probably just some powerless little pion enforcing what they feel is the current "accepted, noncontroversial stance". It could be that 90% of the peop

NYT on CAPPS II protest

2003-03-06 Thread Tyler Durden
This is from today's New York Times. Apparently, either 9/11 is starting to recede in people's memories, or there's a collective sense of distrust growing wrt what this adminstration's been trying to do. -TD The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply objecting to government p

Re: CAPSII protest... or, speakers must not be actors

2003-03-05 Thread Tyler Durden
"and continue to provoke conspiracy to fuck with interstate trade/travel" Yeah...was a little drunk when I wrote that. That should clear up right after I convert to Islam! -TD _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 mo

Someone explain...Give cheese to france?

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... "These fuckards really need to learn what private property is." ('Fuckards'. I like that. GIMMEE.) Alright. There's something I'm not getting here, so the Libertarians on the board are free to enlighten me. Let's take one of my famous extreme examples. Let's say a section of

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
"I'm ashamed to be on the same list with you statists and fascists." Lot's I don't get here. First of all, stating one perhaps should have the right to wear whatever T-shirt you want in a mall isn't necessarily "statist". There are, possibly, non-state-originating arguments in favor of such a n

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm sure I read about a way to do fiber, or that someone had developed a device, that only involved removing a bit of the covering, not cutting into the fiber at all. Yes, there is such a device, and I've used one. The only problem with them is that the amount of attenuation that results fro

Re: AmeriKKKa Tortures Detainees to Death

2003-03-07 Thread Tyler Durden
The kid was 22. When I was 22 I didn't know shit and I had a colege education. This kid probably had a 4th grade education if he was lucky. At 16 he probably joined the local "army" just to make sure he had a hunk of bread every now and then. Some time after that he hears that something bad hap

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-08 Thread Tyler Durden
"Read some of the sources. Few of you social democrats here have done so." Poo-poo on such "sources". I can't believe that someone supposedly trined in physics really believes such sources to be of a huge amount of value. I know I'll take heat for the following statement (deservedly--I admit it'

Re: Using time-domain reflectometry to detect tamper attempts on telecom cables

2003-03-09 Thread Tyler Durden
Well, I know that NSA has its own undersea network, but I can only take a fairly crude guess as to what it might look like. SInce it was several years ago, I guess I won't be getting into too much trouble mentioning some NSA work I participated in. It was not classified (though they probably wa

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-13 Thread Tyler Durden
"If I build the mugger's little helper, a PDA attachement that scans for real prada bags, then perhaps the RFID tag will be removed at the counter after the first lawsuit." Nice! Possibly, it might not even be necessary for the "Little Helper" to read the tag, only detect its presence. Counterfe

Bennetton & Blacknet Credit Cards?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
Peter Trei wrote... "The tag cost is already down to under a dime. When it's under a nickle, these things will be in everything. Think about them in books." Yikes. Makes me wish I had some kind of untraceable credit card. What the heck does that 'RA Hettinga' character do, anyway? Can we get a "

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-12 Thread Tyler Durden
Nice post. I guess it's just a matter of time before someone is charged with disabling the RF signature of one of these tags. I'd guess that here in the US, the rule will be "if you bought it you can disable it, but prior to that you're not allowed to jam it." Humm...one wonders if there's alr

Re: Social democrats on our list

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
>Your oxygen is tresspassing on my private property. Any oxygen that does >so becomes mine to do with as I please. Actually, I'm imagining Tim sitting at his window with a shotgun and some high-tech oxygen detector... _ The new MS

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

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Tom Veil wrote... Otherwise, if the company really wanted such a dickheaded policy, then >yes, it would be their right. Of course, it would also be your right >to organize a boycott, take an alternate route, or build your own spur >route. This is the general gist of the arguments and so far I'm

Sell inverse floaters to france

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Kevin Horne wrote... By the way, one piece of evidence that economics is maturing into a real science is that it is becoming usable by "engineers"; in particular, it has been applied to investment analysis and portfolio theory, resulting in significant improvements in investment performance.

Blacknet Delta CAPPS II Boycott?

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
Just wondering... Would there be an easy "blacknet" way to offer those t-shirts that would be un-shutdownable? Also, as an added (perhaps necessary) benefit, the ability to protect (through anonymity) those that ran the site? Plus, another thought occurs to me. Is it possible, perhaps, via "Bl

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-11 Thread Tyler Durden
"Does it mean that such observations are invalid just because Marx predicted them?" Good point. And also, just because someone points out that it looks like Marx's predictions may be coming true, it doesn't mean that that person believes this is desirable. -TD From: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL

Re: Brinwear at Benetton.

2003-03-13 Thread Tyler Durden
"1972-73 doing Josephson junction experiments with superconducting quantum-interferometric devices, aka SQUIDs" Isn't that a little early for SQUIDs? -TD _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.

Re: Switzerland: Another hit for phone privacy

2003-03-13 Thread Tyler Durden
"Anybody with a brain, being a de-facto criminal or only a de-jure one, will find some of the ridiculously easy ways to acquire one without giving out a name, ..." Well, what they should do is obvious. Post a big sign at the point of sale saying "Use of phone cards for terrorist activities is ille

Re: Give cheese to france?

2003-03-14 Thread Tyler Durden
James Donald wrote... On 11 Mar 2003 at 9:35, Tyler Durden wrote: > "Does it mean that such observations are invalid just because > Marx predicted them?" Actually, I didn't write that, though I quoted it. Marx was both untruthful, and spectacularly in error. Marx was primar

Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
he case of someone who really doesn't want to be tracked taking the subways. -TD From: Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags! Date

Re: Fatherland Security measures more important than Bennetton tags!

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
This ain't Singapore, now...it's NYC. You can (and always will) be able to buy a Metrocard with cash at the remaining token booths. And while I'd bet many have cameras (for anti-token booth-type crime, including setting the booth on fire), I really doubt they'd be able to accurately track an in

Re: [1st amend] NYT: MTV refuses antiwar commercial

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Yeah, despite the probable issues, I want to see big-breasted, bikini-clad springbreak chics on MTV while smokin' a doobie, not be all harshed-out by "reality". I WANT MY MT-V! -TD From: Sunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [1st amend] NYT: MT

Re: Pneumonia versus face recognition

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Thomas Shaddack wrote... "Once wearing a face mask becomes common, the efficiency of face-recognition based surveillance/identification systems will get qutie reduced. Opinions, comments?" What wavelengths do face recognition systems use, and are face masks still opaque at those frequencies? -T

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Schear wrote... I haven't checked but assume they should be relatively cheap. For example, I'm assuming this device isn't too expensive and the sensor itself should be available for a few $10s. http://www.ame-corp.com/UVB.htm Perhaps I misunderstand what you would want to use this device

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-17 Thread Tyler Durden
Steve Schear wrote... "A detector that is only sensitive to this spectral region has the capability to operate in the daylight, even while pointing at the sun, and pick up little background radiation" How much are UV receivers (note, not the same thing as a mere UV detector)? Gotta be kinda ex

I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
can be no hope for you: you are basically helping the enemy. Let us as responsible citizens of this free and peaceful nation pledge ourselves in the fight against evil. May God help us in our fight. -Tyler Durden _ Add photos

Re: Idea: Sidestepping low-power broadcast regulations with infrared

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
the FEC, but it might be possible for that to look just like good old Ethernet shared-bandwidth-based conjestion (but I'm no IP guy so I could be talkin' out my arse here). -TD From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [E

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
Patriot Keith Ray wrote... The US is also the world's foremost provider of economic aid. Whether >the US is a bully or a peacekeeper really depends on your perspective. Yes, and the fact that the majority of this aid is in the form of munitions credits is proof of the fact that we Americans are

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-18 Thread Tyler Durden
trial and due process at the hands of the International Community, of course. Stop. You must not speak like this anymore, as you are attacking our freedom. I insist that those that run this list edit your posts for reckless talk such as this, and before our Partners in Freedom find you

Re: I for one am glad that...

2003-03-19 Thread Tyler Durden
The fact that the count was "very close" is not legal or constitutional grounds for a "do over." In the wise words of a modern American sage, "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos." -TD _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-19 Thread Tyler Durden
I'm convinced that if the U.S. were libertarian, even libertine, that many Muslims would think of us as corrupt...but I don't think much organized effort would be directed against us. Exactly. You don't stress about the weirdos living at the end of the street if you can tune them out. Maybe it ev

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
"It was held back because of one of the terrorist events which that other actor, Tyler Durden, tells us don't happen here in America." Well, I wasn't EXACTLY trying to claim there's actually no terrorism here in the US (aside from our exportation of it, that is). BUT,

Re: terror alert black

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
I've heard that for terror alert black we're all supposed to down a few 100 milligrams of valium, and stay in our beds, butts-up. For hidden weapons inspections, of course. -TD From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: terror alert red Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 08

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-20 Thread Tyler Durden
Good work, Shaddack. Gold star and smiley face. My father has mentioned the Texas City incident a few times while growing up (he grew up in Galveston). He remembers that it basically dissappeared in a giant fireball, and there was never an explanation. So of course I'l send him these links. -T

Re: Spending a billion dollars an hour produces a hell of a light show!

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
"As the Iraqis themselves said, and I paraphrase (because the quote is not handy): "If the U.S. says they know the locations of secret weapons projects, of underground bunkers, etc., why don't they simply give the locations to the U.N. weapons inspectors who can then go to those sites?" Com

Re: Fwd: Informer alert: War begins in Iraq

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
I've been thinking about this post, and though I agreed with the general gist of it, there were some points I thought worth mentioning... May thousands of AmeriKKKan troops die painfully, along with their handlers on the East Coast, as a deterrent to future illegal wars of aggression. This

Re: The Mechanics of Skyscraper Collapse

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
And of course, we captured a set of skyscraper collapses towards the end of our documentary "Fight Club". What suprised us was that the documentary continued to show on cable even several months after September 11th. -TD _ Tired of

Re: terror alert black

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Thomas Shaddack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: terror alert black Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:26:15 +0100 (CET) > I've heard that for terror alert black we&#x

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-19 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... (And this kind of chaos need not be a decapitation attack on the Seat of Government. A disabling attack on agriculture--such as contaminating the meat supply with hoof and mouth or mad cow--or a psychological attack on consumerism--such as 5 suicide bombers hitting crowded shop

Tragedy and Evolution: Revenge of the Nerds?

2003-03-21 Thread Tyler Durden
Variola wrote... "It would be a pain for their families and worse for their insurers, certainly, but think of the evolutionary benefits to mankind. You remove folks who *voluntarily* gave up moral control of their bodies to an unjust, cruel regime. Such eagerness to be externally programmed fo

Re: Journalists, Diplomats, Others Urged to Evacuate City

2003-03-22 Thread Tyler Durden
James D wrote... -- On 21 Mar 2003 at 12:55, Ken Brown wrote: > US originally helped the kind of people who later became the > "Northern Alliance" - a rather odd mixture of unreconstructed > Stalinists, "liberals" in the European sense of the word, > separationists, local bandit chiefs, drug g

Re: Libertarian Party expresses "concern" over war -- but does not

2003-03-22 Thread Tyler Durden
From: Tom Veil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Libertarians are people who think the only legitimate use of state force > is to protect them from their slaves. Or, Libertarians are people who think that the only legitimate use of state force is to protect factories from the angr

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