RE: "The Standard" discovers Regulatory Arbitrage

2000-08-10 Thread Lucky Green
Bob wrote: > Hughes used to say "regulatory arbitrage" a lot on cypherpunks, when I > showed up in spring of 1994, in reference to exactly the kinds of stuff > Vince does, and that's where *I* picked it up, certainly. Eric in turn got the term from a book he read. Unfortunately, I don't remember

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Re: OT: consequences for bad laws

2000-08-10 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michael Motyka wrote: >What the hell is that Latin phrase for "who will watch the watchers" ??? The famous phrase is "Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes?" It translates a little better as "who guards the guardians", and is in a very subtle way sarcastic, because it's tal

Re: OT: consequences for bad laws

2000-08-10 Thread Michael Motyka
I'm all for it. And who will administer the program? Anything set up to operate peacefully through informing the voting public would probably be shut down as libellous or for having run afoul of the campaign finance laws. Anything set up to deal directly with offenders would be branded a ter

Anticompromise Emergency Destruct

2000-08-10 Thread Anonymous
Anticompromise Emergency Destruct (ACED) 3) Until the ACED system is available, the M-610 incendiary file destroyers and thermite grenades, employed primarily to destroy crypto materials, will be used for all PRIORITY ONE emergency destruction within appropriate Army activities. Adequate quant

Re: OT: consequences for bad laws

2000-08-10 Thread Tim May
At 1:17 PM -0400 8/10/00, Steven Furlong wrote: > >My first impulse is to agree. However, the late Roman republic was >crushed under a morass of laws, and so it finally became the rule that >any Senator who proposed a law must appear with a noose around his >neck. If the law did not pass, he would

RE: "Zero tolerance on hate speech"

2000-08-10 Thread Trei, Peter
> -- > From: Tim May[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > At 11:12 AM -0400 8/10/00, David Honig wrote: > >At 05:58 AM 8/10/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > >> > >>So when I first read it I took 5 kegs to mean 250 or 500 litres of beer > >>(or just maybe 180 gallons). Which, although still a

Frogs dont want freedom

2000-08-10 Thread Anonymous
be exported to other democratic countries by Internet. excerpted from http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2810/wr/france_yahoo_dc_1.html

OT: consequences for bad laws

2000-08-10 Thread Steven Furlong
In a message entitled Re: Beer Escrow -- "There ought to be a _law_!!" Tim May wrote: > My radical view has become, over the past dozen or so years, that > anyone who passes a law which is overturned should face consequences > for the bad law. In many cases, death. In lesser cases, hard labor, > e

1st U.S. Online Gambling Conviction

2000-08-10 Thread Anonymous
Gambling is stupid but voluntary, criminalizing it is evil. The US needs to get slapped upside its head. Thursday August 10 2:49 AM ET Man Jailed in 1st U.S. Online Gambling Conviction By Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first person to b

"Zero tolerance on hate speech"

2000-08-10 Thread Tim May
At 11:12 AM -0400 8/10/00, David Honig wrote: >At 05:58 AM 8/10/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >> >>So when I first read it I took 5 kegs to mean 250 or 500 litres of beer >>(or just maybe 180 gallons). Which, although still an unjustified >>imposition on liberty is hardly likely to cause a problem t

yet another classified laptop gone... State this time

2000-08-10 Thread David Honig
Has anyone checked behind the photocopier? Aug 10, 2000 - 09:27 AM Reward offered for laptop The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The State Department announced yesterday a $25,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a m

RE: Keg waiting periods? Gag.

2000-08-10 Thread David Honig
At 05:58 AM 8/10/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > >So when I first read it I took 5 kegs to mean 250 or 500 litres of beer >(or just maybe 180 gallons). Which, although still an unjustified >imposition on liberty is hardly likely to cause a problem to many >people - When they came for the keg parti

Fw: Libel Found on Internet Message Board Postings

2000-08-10 Thread Marcel Popescu
> From: Marjorie Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This case has some interesting implications for site > cracks and defacings . . . > > ~ > > Libel Found on Internet Message Board Postings > American Lawyer Media > > Bio-medical firm Biomatrix won a

Re: RSA expiry commemorative version of PGP?

2000-08-10 Thread Tom Vogt
Lucky Green wrote: > Isn't GnuPG developed outside the US? In that case, why would they exclude > RSA support? Either way, RSA support presumably won't be missing for long. from http://www.gnupg.org: "It is a GNU policy not to use patented algorithms, since patents on algorithms are a contradict

Re: RSA expiry commemorative version of PGP?

2000-08-10 Thread Steve Mynott
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:43:34AM -0400, Lucky Green wrote: > Isn't GnuPG developed outside the US? In that case, why would they exclude > RSA support? Either way, RSA support presumably won't be missing for long. They exclude RSA support because the FSF are opposed to patented alogorithms on