Keith Henson Needs Help

you like Keith. Maybe you just like to mess with the California government. Whatever, Keith Henson is asking for help and he quite probably actually needs it. Full discussion: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/9/14/32340/5809 -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporatio

Re: Framing the issues: how conservatives use language to dominate politics

At 1:53 PM -0500 2/6/04, roya.jakoby wrote: >UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how >conservatives use language to dominate politics They learned from masters. They were called "Marxists". Sheesh... Cheers, RAH -- --------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bea

Networking Nation-States

different Network Commonwealths, rather than as proto-commonwealths in themselves. nafta's true vocation may be to link the communities of Shakespeare and Cervantes rather than merely serve as a means of allowing the sale of cheaper tomatoes in American supermarkets. Rather than problematic sch

Aliens Cause Global Warming

an attack him in the most vicious personal terms. He's a heretic. Of course, any scientist can be charged as Galileo was charged. I just never thought I'd see the Scientific American in the role of mother church. Is this what science has become? I hope not. But it is what it will become

Come on over the water's lovely

along with me. Back in Jordan, I drove the long stretch of empty road through the dark towards Ruweished. Judging from the spectacular sodium blaze in the distance, the town was evidently a lot bigger than I remembered it. By night, it looked the size of Birmingham. But it wasn't the tow

Creation Myths: Does innovation require intellectual propertyrights?

half an idea. That might be a problem. More studies like Quah's will be needed to poke, prod, refine, refute, and extend Boldrin and Levine's theory. And empirical work will be needed to see whether it is indeed a more apt description of innovation. The theory is part of an intellectual thicket, an

Open Source Digital Bearer Certificate Mint/Walletware Released (was re: a lucrative enterprise)

Money is also gratefully accepted, and if you donate some gold, your suggestions will be prioritized. Screenshots of the client, CashBox, and the latest downloads, readmes, and online Javadoc are available right now at the newly designed website: http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/. Patrick --- end

'Kill Kurds, Not Mumia'

all wrong. This is all so stupid." "Where do you get your signs printed up? I want to make a sign that reads 'Kill Kurds, not Mumia.' How much do you think that would cost?" I'm not sure if he ended up thinking that I was an actual protester or not, but nonetheles

Gilder: The Confidence Game

aborators; their own profits stem from the dignity of voluntary personal choices, rather than coercive appropriations. Their entire enterprise is ultimately founded on trust. That is ultimately why I trust them. They trust me. -- - R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwri

David Kahn Speech at NSA 50th Anniversary

#x27;t know or control everything, as shown by public-key cryptography and the beating NSA took on key escrow and the fact that U.S. Navy submarines use Microsoft windows. But though traditional cryptanalysis may be dead, and may have been mostly a corpse for half a century, other opportunities, p