At 12:03 PM 11/28/2003, Michael Moore wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34163.html
I don't believe either ICANN or the ITU should run the Internet. The
goal should be to make centralized management irrelevant. Although some
sort of centralized IP control is required, OR the
At 12:08 PM 10/17/2003 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.apple.com i-Tunes for MSFT users at last.
(Some genius would make a PROXY where you could spend e-gold and pay
the iTunes with that. At a stroke this would at last complete JimR's
desire to be able to pay for music you buy with
At 07:25 PM 10/13/2003 -0400, Hannibal Smith wrote:
One can prefer to pay the 10% voluntarily, but then the disadvantage is
thatsome people may cheat.
You stated previously that 10% inflation (or whatever number the state
planners decide is best for the general welfare) is great for economic
At 05:44 AM 10/14/2003 -0700, Katz Global Media wrote:
Although its a longer route, you could transfer the e-gold into ALTA/DMT,
trade it for dollars, Euros, etc. and then have it wired.
steve
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The rallying cry of the American Colonists was No Taxation Without
Representation. Its ironic that the same cry would apply today. Taxation
Without Representation is the way politics in our nation are conducted.
Unlike in many/most parliamentary systems, the U.S. state and federal
At 04:26 PM 10/10/2003 +, SnowDog wrote:
Did anyone actually try to cut a deal with PayPal, explaining the kind
of business you were trying to do?
Yes, but the problem is that PayPal allows fraudulent money into their
system by giving their buying customers access to credit cards. There are
At 12:01 PM 10/6/2003 +0300, FileMatrix wrote:
Yes Steve, I agree with what you just said, but what you don't accept to
understand is that USA is the only country that can afford to inflate its
currency because the USD circulates in the entire world. So, for the other
countries of the world it
At 06:14 PM 10/5/2003 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
We do not need 'bad money' to motivate people to invest. Regardless of
what money they use, people will invest their savings if they see a
prospect for gain. Problem is, bad money constantly erodes the value of
those savings and therefore
At 01:10 AM 10/4/2003 +0300, FileMatrix wrote:
So, you're the big chief of a country. I am the big chief of another. We
have economies that we equally value to 1 ton of gold (which we have in our
vaults).
The thing is, I put the gold aside and print money. Our economies
develop, at the same
is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored
by judges and demagogue statesmen.
- Steve Schear
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At 10:51 PM 9/22/2003 -0500, Jim Davidson wrote:
The other thing about dollars is that they could *all* come
home to roost. If political or economic reasons indicated
that the dollar should be replaced with the euro for, say,
oil trading, a lot of dollars would come to the USA all at
once. Same
At 06:58 PM 9/18/2003 +0300, FileMatrix wrote:
As Graham said, it will only be a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of
the worlds economies! Gold simply can't back the world's economy! There
isn't enough! Paper money can exactly because it can be printed (and
destroyed)!
Gold and Economic
At 08:30 PM 9/18/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, with regards to Jim's comments about synthetic diamonds: They are
grossly over-rated. What most of the media articles and snake oil
salesmen pushing synths do not tell you is that the technology has already
been around for years, it does
At 10:30 AM 9/14/2003 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From a link that I saw on Slashdot:
http://shirky.com/writings/fame_vs_fortune.html
I've always though micropayments were an evil concept !! I can hardly
say the word! :)
Not evil but foolish. There was a cypherpunk meeting two summers back
Just a small clarification. I'm looking for orders placed with Amazon.com
(U.S.) not their U.K. or German subsidiaries.
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Some friends ;-) are close to launching an innovative Amazon Associate
web site. To perfect their automation processes they need as many samples
of recent order confirmations and shipper email PAIRS as they can
get. They require all of the header information. (This is undoubtedly
reliably cache about 2 weeks of content.
steve
A foolish Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored
by judges and demagogue statesmen.
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Constitutional inconsistency is the hobgoblin of freedom, adored
by judges and demagogue statesmen.
- Steve Schear
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Some 54 nations, mostly in Europe and the Caribbean, have legalized
regulated online gambling, according to the Interactive Gaming Council.
Already, there are signs that other countries may take sides against the
United States. Several nations, including Taiwan, Mexico, Canada and the EU
The WTO (World Trade Organisation) this week granted Antigua and Barbuda
the right to a hearing over its long-standing complaint against the United
States, which has restricted the right of US citizens to gamble online - a
major lifeline for the Caribbean jurisdiction's economy.
White-label out-sourcing takes off in forex sector
Reuters, 07.21.03, 3:14 PM ET
By Gertrude Chavez
NEW YORK, July 21 (Reuters) - White label is not a brand of whiskey or a
record company, but a rapidly expanding segment of the huge global foreign
exchange business.
Faced with thinner margins
At 12:12 2003-07-18 +, Frank Mottley wrote:
An Article by H.A. Scott Trask
from Mises.org
most of article deleted.
Because the notes were redeemable in specie only at the Philadelphia bank,
they depreciated everywhere else. In addition, the new Superintendent of
Finance, Robert Morris,
At 16:59 2003-07-14 +, Frank Mottley wrote:
A very interesting address, which some of you may have already read, as it
was made last year. Ferdinand Lips, addressing the Austrian congress,
presented a speech entitled Why Gold-Backed Currencies Help Prevent
Wars. The entire thing is a bit
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A federal prosecutor has alleged eBay Inc.
(Nasdaq:EBAY - news) unit PayPal violated a 2001 anti-terror law aimed at
fighting money laundering when it provided payment services to online
gambling companies, the Web auctioneer said in its annual report filed on
At 10:12 PM 3/20/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DON'T LET A SCRATCH RUIN YOUR DVD INVESTMENT
Your DVD collection is important. Despite error correction features
it only takes a single scratch in a critical area to make a disk unplayable.
Now you can insure your investment with
At 01:07 AM 3/22/2003 -0500, Robert S.Z. wrote:
It seems they are trying to slide in under the DMCA by using the fair use
provision. Interestingly, the way I read the law is it doesn't preclude
fair use only breaking the DRM of the DVD.
One of our hgosting clients tried something similar and
At 06:19 PM 3/22/2003 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thank you for the run down!
Say I have some Lucrative, value 1550 units.
So its like one certificate for 1550 units.
Say I want to give you say 20.50 units (say I've just bought a car from
you, for example)
Do I sort of gve you the 1550
At 11:40 AM 3/2/2003 -0600, SnowDog wrote:
But it doesn't matter because merchants aren't allowed to offer discounts
for cash or other payment methods, when they accept credit cards. So there's
still a 2% - 5% additional fee when purchasing something with e-gold.
Actually, that's not strictly
Sorry George but I've got to oppose your statist views in this case and
side with the others. Despite the propaganda of altruism, I find more of
the activities of the Nation States against my short- and long-term
interests than those who seek to keep their personal interests private. I
value
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED
: HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL
FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH
DEAR SIR / MADAM,
I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT
At 07:34 PM 12/11/2002 +1100, Goldtoday wrote:
A landmark decision for the publishing industry.
Be careful what you say on the 'net.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5653567%255E2862,00.html
From the article:
The court dismissed suggestions the Internet was
At 10:26 AM 12/7/2002 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The situation still exists wherein e-gold spends work sometimes
and don't work sometimes. How long has this been going on?
Somewhere between 24 and 48 hours, I think.
It's absolutely insane.
It's completely ludicrous -- ridiculous. And
At 06:45 PM 12/3/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
I suppose that if it's not blinded, or at least functionally anonymous,
like you'd get with statistically-tested streaming cash, it's not *that*
bearer, but, hey, that's just *my* opinion, right?
Since it has no payee or associated holder
At 04:41 AM 12/2/2002 +, Colonel Bosco wrote:
No-one said anything about Security.
If you wish to use YOUR Company to be a front for illegal activity then
feel free to do so.
Those who do could not even hope to hold a candle to similar activities by
those in government. Those who chose
At 05:48 PM 11/29/2002 +1100, Graham Kelly wrote:
Ben,
Thank you for the testimony... yes, we do deal privately with folks, but
we ALSO need to verify customers name, address, and phone numbers, as we
never want to be accused of money laundering, or dealing with NON
entities etc etc. Also, we
At 06:07 PM 11/28/2002 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm of mixed emotions about pgp signing list messages. It's
a good way to solve the security problems of email, ..
J, I'm guessing what the poster meant (possibly) was that the egold list
software would somehow check that the emails were
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
At 09:40 AM 11/28/2002 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two things,
1) It doesn't take a genius to see that the two messages from Graham weren't
actually from him. I wonder if it wouldn't have been appropriate to catch
the messages and delete them
At 09:40 AM 11/28/2002 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two things,
1) It doesn't take a genius to see that the two messages from Graham weren't
actually from him. I wonder if it wouldn't have been appropriate to catch
the messages and delete them before a war starts.
How the hell do we know
At 11:11 PM 11/24/2002 +1100, Graham Kelly wrote:
Next time we have a US office, it'll be based in St Kitts or similar...
what an indictment to the US business system! No wonder long established
US companies are RAPIDLY moving offshore! For just simple protection!
Or have the U.S. office
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/11/11/4183/2039
Yodel Bank: Anonymous Digital Cash
By Anonymous Hero, Section New Releases
Posted on Mon Nov 11th, 2002 at 04:18:03 AM GMT
Thanks to developments in anonymous communication, such as Freenet and
the invisible irc project, anonymous digital
At 01:44 AM 11/7/2002 -0600, Jim Davidson wrote:
E-gold lets me spend a millionth of a dollar's worth of
gold. Wow.
True, but watch out for the spend fees. When the size is moderate spend
fees are small in comparison with the transaction. However, when the
transaction size is a small
At 10:57 AM 11/4/2002 -0500, Chad Z. Hower wrote:
:: Clause. Of those of know about these matters most have decided that
:: illegal or not its now deemed the law of the land and nothing
:: can be done
:: to roll back the clock when so much time has passed and so much
Try it for yourself. And
At 03:57 AM 11/2/2002 +, Graham Kelly wrote:
I LIKE the present US constitution... IMHO, I think that the US govmint
folks feel it needs to be updated, but it appears that most US citizens
are happy with it.
That's because most citizens today are as dumb as a doorknob when it comes
to the
At 09:49 PM 10/31/2002 -0600, Jim Davidson wrote:
Imagine your delight
when you subpoena the several past IRS commissioners who
have stated that compliance is voluntary and Americans
who don't live in US territories such as Puerto Rico owe
no taxes. Imagine your delight when you present the tax
At 04:20 PM 10/30/2002 +1100, you wrote:
So paying tax is voluntary? I thought they would audit you if you don't
pay taxes and fine you etc?
Maybe I'm missing something?
Filing of tax forms is mandatory if the sources or amounts of your income
require it under IRS provisions (many of those
At 11:20 AM 10/9/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:44 AM 10/9/2002 -0400, James M. Ray wrote:
... Over $80 million was spent by Napster not-getting this idea
before they died, so it's definitely yet-another pile of money on the
ground, waiting for somebody to pick it up, IMO. ...
Yes,
John Kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
At 06:27 PM 10/9/2002 -0700, Craig Spencer wrote:
John,
If I spend the next 6 months in my attic writing a sequel to
Atlas Shrugged, and the moment I begin to sell them someone posts
the entire thing to the internet and everyone downloads it for
free,
At 08:24 PM 10/8/2002 -0400, George Matyjewicz wrote:
At 11:06 AM 10/8/2002 -0400, Digibuck Inc. wrote:
ALL FUNDS FDIC INSURED
FDIC insurance is only available to US financial institutions. Hence are
we to assume this is a US-based card?
Not entirely true. Its possible for non-financial
At 11:59 PM 10/6/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been doing this same task with file attachments to drafts
for some time but hush has now made it easier. Hush accepts e-gold.
As for backups, I have never gotten Hush to confirm that they back
up their systems. If anyone has that
At 12:01 AM 9/28/2002 -0500, Jim Davidson wrote:
I have just one question for Steve. If pubic key crypto
is strong, where are we expected to store our key rings?
That's been the subject of much debate and industry. I usually store my on
my HD with diskette backup. I've experimented with USB
At 07:56 AM 9/28/2002 +1000, you wrote:
[SNIP] Have these cards encrypted at about 128 bits,
where the government would really need to work to get into any of them
Now that is funny. 128 bit encryption is about as strong as
those paper cups you get at grimy MLM conventions (not
that I've
At 12:27 PM 9/23/2002 -0400, David Beroff wrote:
In the future, this could actually
be expanded to the postage-based email system
that many have envisioned, where a person could
configure that they would not read unsolicited
commercial emails unless they were getting paid
at least X mg.
Such a
Jack,
Regarding your Sept 3 piece Passing the Buck,
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/03/opinion/03KRUG.html?ex=1032080085ei=1en=b203a467ac43dfef,
Mr. Greenspan is indeed trying to avoid blame or criticism for our economic
woes, but to be fair the Fed no longer has the arrows in its quiver it
At 02:16 PM 8/15/2002 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
History shows that powerful governments almost always attempt to crush
independence movements with brutal force. They do not want us slaves to
escape their plantation.
Let me phrase my question more optimistically. Why will the future of
At 07:40 PM 8/10/2002 -0400, Kenneth C. Griffith wrote:
Stated more succinctly: information technology + financial cryptography +
weapons of mass destruction = the state is definitively obsolete, but no one
has realized it yet.
Yes, this follows directly from The Sovereign Individual
Instead of
At 10:29 AM 8/12/2002 +1000, Ian Green wrote:
PS: Has anyone considered that a well designed, voluntary, constitutional
direct democracy system would logically result in a reduction of
legislation much greater than 10dB? Professional legislators justify their
existence by bombarding us with
At 09:01 PM 7/9/2002 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
I now summarize what I think are the core required properties of anything
that purports to be a medium of exchange with a stable value:
1. Durability
2. Divisibility
3. Recognizability
4. Guaranteed slow growth (approx 2%)
This puts aside
At 11:22 AM 7/10/2002 -0400, James M. Ray wrote:
(Like Mojo and some other ideas that get tossed around) I doubt it
will ever catch on without convertability into something that can be
spent.
There no technical reason why those minting hashcash could not sell the
stamps for
[This is an excellent example of providing both an auditing means and a
known reputation behind a password protection utility. Open source is one
of the best ways to prove your code has no intentional backdoors. An audit
from a known software security consulting firm should also be
At 08:31 AM 6/16/2002 -0400, Bob wrote:
Basically it's the 100 largest stocks on the NASDAQ. It recently went
below it's Sept. '01 lows. This is big big news that I doubt the mass
media has said anything about. But I don't know. I don't pay too much
attention to them. When I do, I find it
with unsavory when it suits him.
Steve Schear
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http://www.goupstate.com/docs/Opinion/Editorials/5878.asp
Published: February 21, 2002
State of mistrust
South Carolina agencies continue to violate citizens'
privacy. This time the state is distributing our
children's DNA. Lawmakers need to institute firmer rules
on the collection and
CNET News.com reports a class-action law suit was filed Wednesday in
California Superior Court in Santa Clara County. The suit charges PayPal
with illegitimately restricting customers' access to their money. The suit
asks for an unspecified amount of damages. Have you been ripped off or
At 10:08 PM 2/19/2002 +, Billet and Acrylic UK Gold Services wrote:
That makes interesting reading John
It makes you wonder if the war on Terrorism is winnable (if there is such a
word)
There is no War on Terrorism any more than there is a War on Drugs. There
are only wars on people who
The use of RFID to track currency a bad idea. Getting the chip technology
compatible with currency handling requirements will be
difficult. Protecting it against hackers with cheap and effective
electro-magentic pulse equipment will be next to impossible.
A cheaper and more robust solution
At 09:05 AM 12/6/2001 -0500, James M. Ray wrote:
Gotta love Pud's dot.com deathpool -- Severity: 100 - new hall of
fame inductee! ;^) And Bob Hettinga's right, this is absolutely a
severe case of deja-vu (or is that, they'll never learn?).
JMR
Subject: eCash reported morbidly wounded
From: R.
At 07:31 PM 11/25/2001 -0800, Ragnar wrote:
Most of all, think about why so many efforts to sort of deploy
digital cash or untraceability tools have essentially failed
due to a failure of nerve, a failure to go for the brass ring.
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Very good analysis, Mr. Schear. Very
At 10:15 PM 11/25/2001 -0500, Andrew McMeikan wrote:
For sweetspot applications that are considered immoral in *any* place in
the world then you get at least a potential problem for those that
promote/encourage/use depending on the reach and proportional power of
those offended
Agreed. But then
Golden Oldie
Bernard Condon, Forbes Magazine, 12.10.01
Having called the top of the gold market 22 years ago, a goldbug thinks he
has found the bottom.
In 1977 James Sinclair boldly predicted that gold would rise from $150 per
troy ounce to $900.
Gold never reached that mark, but it came
At 03:21 PM 11/25/2001 -0500, David Brooks wrote:
How is e-gold useful? Transaction fees are orders of magnitude
larger than the transaction amount.
Steve,
With respect, I believe you do not understand the
transaction fee structure of e-Gold. This is quoted
from the e-Gold webpage:
At 04:35 AM 11/16/2001 -0700, Metanoic wrote:
is sacked (means fired from
place of employment), that always gives me a laugh!
Whomever;
I have heard this term all my life in America and around the world. I have
worked in international consulting, hired and fired many people. It is a
common
A very funny, well produced, musical piece.
www.gotlaughs.com/funpages/bin2.cfm
steve
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At 12:07 AM 9/24/2001 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
The money-making operation, thought to have earned millions for terrorist
coffers, follows to the word a 1998 exhortation by one of bin Laden's
Islamist front groups to kill the Americans and plunder their money.
Predictably inscrutable.
stve
What wireless access options to e-gold and its MM are available for U.S.
transactors?
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Did you know that you can spend e-gold to help the victims of terror at:
At 07:54 AM 9/14/2001 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Market makers in the US - is postal service even working? I assume FedEx
is totally shut down?
I spoke with one of their employees yesterday. They are essentially on
furlough until their ground fleet is flying again.
Can I still have a
At 11:06 AM 9/11/2001 -0700, eCurrencyCrawler wrote:
Yes, I am sorry for the close minded message... I isolated the problem, my
mistake. I am sorry this isn't simply an attack on this country... this
is an attack on continent... a civilization... my GOD, the people... the
families...
And
At 03:39 PM 9/10/2001 -0400, eCurrencyCrawler wrote:
...I am totally uninterested in online gambling, and I suspect that goes
for more people...
There are also a LOT of other people who ARE interested in gambling.
Both opinions are valid, heh, in my opinion. Although, here's the REAL
At 03:21 PM 8/24/2001 -0600, Mike McNamara wrote:
I'd have to agree that it's generally not practical for market makers to
accept soft currencies in exchange for harder currencies like
e-gold! Particularly on an instant basis -- which of course is what
appeals to Joe Blow Consumer.
This may
At 12:34 AM 7/30/2001 -0500, SnowDog wrote:
There are two other primary functions of e-gold that are being overlooked:
2) E-Gold allows individuals to buy large amounts of gold at a very low
price, and store it without having to rent a safety deposit box, with the
convenience of being able
with the tower, to reset the CMOS -- I'll have to get specs from HP
before I go taking this baby apart. In short it's going to take quite a
bit of time and effort to figure out if there is any data intact for me
to recover on either of these machines. This kind of destructive
data-mining was
At 12:45 AM 7/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Michael Moore wrote:
this has been an ongoing problem in commerce and banking and part of
the answer (not the right one perhaps) has been to introduce the 'know
your customer' policy. Unfortunately this also tends to cut across the
rights of the
At 10:36 AM 7/6/2001 -0400, Craig Spencer wrote:
Julian Morrison wrote:
a) If you do business with unidentified people, you can be dragged into
their crimes, you can be swindled, and you can help crime in general
prosper.
Strictly speaking the problem is not that they are unidentified.
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