robable--crazy, even--but when did that ever stop a mathematician:
"All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we
shall control." --John von Neumann.
This is what's ultimately at stake. Fascinating, terrifying.
The only way to counter math is with better math.
Oh
ell as it might is a testament to
just how strong our ape legacy is: the weak and stupid are at the mercy of the
strong and cunning and always will be. Here there and everywhere, from anarchy
to democracy to totalitarian state, like it or not. Read some Schopenhauer...
~Faustine.
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He t
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Tim wrote:
Faustine wrote:
> If, when I came here, I had made the deliberate choice to make an
> effort at "getting along" by emphasizing our similarities instead of
> differences, I dare say the motivation to dissect-and
u, fine-- but
there certainly wasn't any criticism of anything related to you somehow hidden
in it.
>I stand by my comment that shielding a thread in a $100 bill, for
>example, is vastly easier than detecting it. Your cites about WiFi
>frequencies and 3 meter ranges and suchlike
using ID
systems. It suggests innovative solutions, the improvement of existing
applications, describing trends and future possibilities.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will rea
ck to your chemistry 101 books and advice from Uncle Fester, that's
perfectly fine by me. Just watch out throwing the word "disinformation"
around, that's all.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he
gen cyanide gas.) The heat and dispersal issues in this kind of chemical
submunition have already been fully addressed in more serious CW
literature, but I'm really not the person to ask. I'm completely and perfectly
happy to leave the "Ask Uncle Fester" gig entirely to you.
~Faus
ts as well as blast effects, I think it more likely
this was a simple error made in haste ("Urea Nitrate" used generically
(erroneously) in place of the more precise "urea nitrate bomb" than deliberate
disinformation. For you to split hairs and demand an example of sodium cyanide
used
expert opinion to everyone here that adding
sodium cyanide to urea nitrate bombs is a bad idea, though.
And as long as you don't recommend that John call out the Snackycake Posse on
the poor schmoe who sent him the manual thinking he was trying to help, I
honestly couldn't care less.
~F
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Faustine wrote:
Morlock wrote:
> I think someone got careless: terrorists have used sodium cyanide in
> their "urea nitrate bombs"--the first WTC bombing, as a matter of fact.
> Look it up. The compound referred to as an
in on
some graduate classes in the sorts of areas you're interested in at Berkeley,
just for the sake of generating more discussion with people in the field?
Ill bet bouncing everything in your post off people there would generate a lot
a lot of return for a small investment of your time. None
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> > Aimee wrote:
> > Faustine wrote:
> > Jeez, don't be so polite, it makes me nervous. This is Cypherpunks:
> > vent a little, it'll do you good. ;)
> >
> > ~Faustine.
>I _WAS_ "venting."
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Aimee wrote:
Faustine wrote:
> > http://www.metatempo.com/IWARThreatModel.pdf
>
> Seems awfully dated and rudimentary. Current online books which go a lot
> deeper and put crypto its due place, dead center:
>Well, it says it&#
think the
trust issues need a little more resolution before I start anonymously
turning over my assets online. Actually, a lot more, in light of the recent
news. Oh well, any links or pointers that deal specifically with the trust
question would be welcome.
~Faustine.
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He that would m
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Gil wrote:
Faustine writes:
>best is write code, write code. The main thing is to DO something, whatever
>your skills and talents are. Spare everyone the hot air and just do it.
>>What *you* say is hot air; what *I* say is "policy
able to know I did my part to save the taxpayer literally
billions of dollars than know I cost the police department a couple of
bandaids and a couple of man-hours to write up my criminal record.
To each his own.
~Faustine.
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Faustine:
> Aimee wrote:
> >Well, I doan' kno' nuttin' 'bout no agents. That fact has been
> >established.
> Careful parsing is the spice of life... :P
>>So sayeth the academic-researcher-grad student p
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Jim wrote:
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Faustine wrote:
> Bah. I say it depends entirely on what the lie is, who's being lied to, and
> how confident and artistic the confidence artists are.
> If they were good enough (and their targets comf
March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.
;)
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself.
original? Are you fixated on anybody? boring the
shit out of people? What can you honestly say you bring to the forum?
A little more self-examination wouldn't hurt any of us.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he vio
ly the way it is.
As if the people practicing it-- government patriots, spies, traitors, double
agents, merceanries, freedom fighters, and assorted shitheels of all
persuasions-- care about illegality one way or the other. For good or bad, for
all of them it really does come back to the l
u always try to make a personal grudge seem objective with your
Madame Mao-like denouncements and repudiations. I don't think it's fooling
anybody.
(snip)
4) spammers, Choate, Agent Farr, Mattd, Faustine, and dozens of other
marginal people, including a slew of halfwits who use remailers
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John wrote:
Choate mimed:
>On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Faustine wrote:
>
>> He's a disgrace to the very ideals he professes.
>
>CJ Parker as well.
>>All mouth, both of you, blowing yellow bluster.
I can assure you Ive been t
cy.
One would think a truly subversive so-called "Enemy of the State" would take
pride in having a perfectly flawless criminal record. Oh well, be proud of
being convicted if you want to. I'll stand up for your rights, but for the life
of me can't see what there is to cheer about.
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For those of you in the UK...
RAND Cambridge Office offers seminars on
Intelligence and International Security
In co-operation with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies
(RUSI)
This seminar programme -- previously held between
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Secret Plan Outlines the Unthinkable
A secret policy review of the nations nuclear policy puts forth chilling new
contingencies for nuclear war.
By WILLIAM M. ARKIN
LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-arkinmar10.story
WASH
t is going to throw away on the chimera
of "homeland defense", anyone content to sit around whining, whimpering and
waiting to be handed safety on a silver platter in times like these is in for a
rude awakening.
> Faustine wrote:
>
>> Other "must see" bunker TV:
&
den zooms and wavering focus creating an atmosphere of immediacy unique in
British television. Fifty minutes that shook the world."
***
I'm about as unsentimental as it gets, but my palms started sweating just to
remember seeing this. You won't forget it.
~Faustine.
***
He that wou
dy or other. Unlike some of you, I don't relish the
thought of millions of innocent people who never did anything to anyone being
killed for nothing. As far as I'm concerned, the more people who wake up, think
the unthinkable, and take responsibility for the protection of their own lives
should be protecting from the
>very threat which they now pose.
And you think it's not too late now?
>John is completely correct. The current practices as they pertain to
>'recruiting' are utterly odious and abhorrent and should be exposed and
>halted.
Not at the exp
M!!
With one swift blow, drove his fork deep into the back of the taunter's hand.
As everyone was freaking out and the guy howled in pain--finally, he showed
some expression after all: he threw back his head and laughed.
The moral of the story:
Here's to staying the fuck away from
n which another man had your life in his
hands--and consciously and deliberately made the decision to let you hang in
the wind and die, you might understand why the truly prudent want nothing to do
with it.
~Faustine.
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Aimee and Jim wrote:
> Faustine isn't coy, she's humble.
>>And you're easily fooled.
Huh? Where's the con? It really depends on what you mean by "humble". Let's
see: I have an IQ of 166 (Cattell);
e kind
>of credit for game theory he got in the latest Hollywood biopic.
Gee, I wouldn't know. Out of respect for Nash's acheivement, I refused to see
it.
>[Rest of Faustine's Choate/Jei-like forwarded article snipped.]
Now there's a stretch. Your little territoria
ard an American Information Strategy", on and on.
The free pdfs are anyone's for the taking at http://www.rand.org.
In my opinion, people who care about these sorts of issues can't afford to miss
them.
~Faustine.
And just for the hell of it, here's a gratuitous
sonality
drove policy during the Cultural Revolution.
It also makes powerful statement about why giving up on the idea of
constitutional democracy is a bad, bad idea.
There but for the grace of the Founders, go we.
~Faustine.
***
There is no history--only biography.
- --Ralph Waldo Emerson.
. It tells us nothing
>>libertarians didn't already know: butt out. Or, in Washington's
>>paraphrased words, "avoid foreign entanglements."
Sure. But just because one knows foreign meddling is likely to lead to disaster
doesn't mean the particular disasterou
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jim Choate wrote:
> If you're interested in reading more about modern warfare, theory and
> practice:
future warfare, theory and practice:
RAND National Security Research and Analysis
http://www.rand.org/natsec_area/
~F.
against the embarassment of feeling left out of the conversation.
~Faustine.
I still wish she'd read the Herman Kahn though... ;)
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will rea
ces purring courteous, grave, exactly measured phrases in large peaceful
rooms..."
Powerful stuff.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself.
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mattd wrote:
>We all know USGovt. slime infest this >site,PJ,Maurice+Faustine and
>Aimee,the CointelPRO hoes.
I've never received a paycheck from the government in my life, you stupid son
of a bitch. If someone far more i
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Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>From: Michael Motyka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I agree; fascinating stuff. Here's a paragraph on deviousness and psychopathy
>as an adaptive trait you might find interesting:
(snip p
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Faustine wrote:
> ...by the people you know about.
>No, by understanding the scale of the problem we're talking about. There
>simply isn't the data or the people to collect it. If we took the entire
&g
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Faustine wrote:
Jim wrote:
> Ha! How would any of us mere mortals know, since some of the very most arcane,
> sophisticated and advanced work done in simulation today is 100% classified
> DARPA research.
>>It isn't a questi
rical chickens. I would have
thought the thing to do next is choose a range of actual drill bits capable of
drilling plutonium, note their properties and create a table of values by
working through the equation that way. Oh well.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure mu
aints and poets and
world-redeemers. I bade them laugh at their gloomy sages and at whoever had at
any time sat on the tree of life like a black scarecrow. For in laughter all
that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own
bliss."
Something to think about. ;)
~Faus
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David wrote:
>Pg 276 describes the origin of the "internet was designed for nuke
>robustness" 'myth' though the 'myth' itself is not mentioned.
Not a myth. Here's some history, background, and free .pdfs, in case anyone is
interested...
***
An electrical en
rorism and other assaults on the
public order and decency, the masses would cheer."
***
Anyone care to tell me why that doesnt apply now, more than ever?
~Faustine.
***
"It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in
this story where safety will be the stur
k in the mirror you really ought to see yourself
for what you are. Feds are bumbling fools but somehow you, the genius
beyond-cool cypherpunk contractor, are any different? Blinding you with your
passionate commitment to the free market, not bad.
What a brilliant con.
~Faustine.
***
He that would m
back and watch him dig himself in deeper:
"I have always been among those who believe that the greatest freedom of speech
was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to
encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking."
- --Woodrow Wilson
So welcome
sis of age alone, perhaps it would be helpful to trouble
yourself to learn the tiniest little bit about what they are, eh?
Agh, back to work. :)
~Faustine.
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there
shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil
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jamesd wrote:
>If, as seems likely, the Argentinian economy makes an
>unplanned and prohibited coversion from pesos to dollars, in
>defiance of government policy, the likely result is that the
>value of the peso will drop to zero.
Yep. Which reminds me: one of
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Tim wrote:
>And that we often see with your own posts, John. Namely, a mix of
>schizophrenia, dyslexia, paranoia, and Tourette's Syndrome. Some are more
>dyslexic than others, and it's likely that with some the word juxtapositions
>and malapropisms are complete
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Faustine wrote:
Black Unicorn wrote:
> You should be glad I've managed to avoid polluting the forum by
> wasting breath responding to most of the gradeschool taunts/death
> threats losers seem to get off on directing my way these days.
>&g
be my guest. You're on the wrong track and
it's win-win all the way: your wasting time is its own reward.
But if I'm really as uninteresting as all that, why anyone would bother is less
than self-evident.
>may be fodder for Oprah's Online Chat Room ("You
>go, girl!&
to get
off on directing my way these days.
(I was about to include a whole paragraph of inflammatory comments regarding
the aforementioned, but thought better of it. What's the point? I'm too busy
and life's too short. To each his own. FOAD. Whatever.)
~Faustine.
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It appears as if Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
I'm a firm believer in mobile preparedness: in fact, every day I never leave
home without carrying a c
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Someone sufficiently paranoid to use a remailer wrote:
At 03:27 PM 1/2/02 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>Concealed carry is the only way to go, after I iron all the permits
out.
>>What state do you live in?
One would think the more interesting question f
ed anonymity
for--rather than merely living quietly and making a symbolic gesture--there's
not a doubt in my mind she'd have the cops, SWAT teams, and the five o' clock
news all over us like a cheap suit.
Or: freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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John wrote:
>Another person can see your fundamentals but not you, and
>vice versa.
>Faustine demonstrated this with her parable about locating
>a long-lost acquaintance, as did he her, uh, her he. He did
>not could not recognize
sure it's
worth taking the time to try them all before deciding, thanks again for a more
solid place to start.
~Faustine.
***
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oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to
you know what to look for.
Sure enough, I found him on the very first search, railing away and breathing
fire as anticipated, almost as if on cue. All I had to do was jump right in
the conversation and trot out my own crotchety old hobbyhorses in my own
style...that afternoon, I got a "h
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At 06:54 PM 12/28/01 -0500, Faustine wrote:
>
>Not surprising, since cell phone holster decoys have been around for ages.
>Why settle for a .22 when you could be packing a Glock 30?
>Better stealth.
>I like the NAA .22 belt buckle
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Tim wrote:
>start up companies are not the place to do
>basic R&D. That's the place for universities and for established
>companies (with the companies either spinning-off divisions or selling
>the products themselves or losing their staff who "st
I'd happily include
>both a remailer run by Hamas and a remailer run my the Mossad in my
>remailer chains.
Who knows, maybe we already do: anything worth getting nervous about is
probably totally "unmarked" as being connected to an agency anyway.
~Faustine.
***
He tha
s.
Why are you posting from behind a remailer?
Hypocrisy isn't pretty.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself.
- --Thomas Paine
-BEGI
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From: "Faustine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marcel wrote:
>Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them did have nightmares about the
> Constitution. Not as a piece of paper dancing around on Mickey Mouse legs or
> whate
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CIA poised for unprecedented involvement in domestic investigations
By ABRAHAM McLAUGHLIN, Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON (December 17, 2001 12:09 p.m. EST) - The Central Intelligence Agency
has been given new freedom to get involved in dom
ably ban it too.
It could be purely punitive, but I think the encouragement factor is worth
considering.
~Faustine.
***
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy
from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself.
- --Th
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From: "Faustine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Marc wrote:
> My point was that without constitutional protection, it would be
>>infinitely easier for innocent people and arbitrarily-determined thought
>>-criminal "enemies
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> My point was that without constitutional protection, it would be
>infinitely easier for innocent people and arbitrarily-determined thought
>-criminal"enemies of the state" t
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Marcel wrote:
> >>I think the Constitution was the biggest curse ever cast on you. Every
time
> >>something bad happens, you use these magic words like "entrapment" or
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:01:11PM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote:
> OK. How about "well-funded?" :)
>
> I count $1,270,000 in grants to the organization since its creation as the
> > Compared to giants like Brookings? Not well-funded, well-known, big,
t weren't for the Constitution, the
US would have taken over your little country and the rest of the world
with it a long, long time ago. That kind of gross totalitarian imperialism is
all anyone has to look forward to in a US without what's left of the
Constitution.
Something to think abou
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What the Heck is OPSEC?
prepared by Zhi Hamby, Executive Director, OPS
http://www.opsec.org/who/who02.htm
-
In a nutshell, OPSEC is a process that teaches you to examin
EC makes for shitty
tradecraft.
I just can't say this enough: one of the drawbacks of viewing all feds as
donut-chomping incompetents is that it fosters a false sense of complacency.
Underestimating your adversary never did anyone a bit of good. Something to
think about, anyway.
~Faustine.
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Morlock wrote:
Faustine wrote:
> > Too bad you seemed to have missed the entire point of the passage: if your
> > relationships are making you bitter and miserable, there's no sense in
> > blaming the other half of the
ce remarked that the most unimaginitive, laziest Harvard graduate
students at the bottom of their class tend to end up at the IMF and UN.
Sort of sinkholes of mediocrity. Oh well!
~Faustine.
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
- --William O. Douglas,
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Morlock Elloi wrote:
Faustine wrote:
> Any relationship based on desperation or one partner's dysfunctional clingy
> need is a complete waste of time. So if you seem to be spending a lot of time
> around women who want to mash you do
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On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 07:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Faustine wrote:
>>> Not all women are golddiggers.
>> They're called 'old maid
ifference could my reassuring you what a
good little girl I really am make. So no, I don't want your blind trust at all.
>You don't need to search out other people's flaws when your own are so
>much closer at hand.
Where's the flaw in saying trust should be more than an em
shots at the designated
whipping boys to the point that the whole list becomes a pointless pecking
- -order exercise in kissing the ass of the alpha baboons. Or something.
Here's to saying what you think, popularity be damned.
~Faustine.
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And now, for a special thanksgiving message from a closet Objectivist-
libertarian in the Bush administration... :)
***
The generosity of capitalism
The US is the world's biggest giver because its ethos of individualism
encourages humanitarianism
over a
rich businessman or male model anyday!
But if sleeping with golddiggers is good enough for you, to each his own.
Though it must totally unsatisfying to know that your golddigger-du-jour will
stop valuing you when your cash flow dries up. A shame you couldn't have found
someone better instead.
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Jim wrote:
>C-A-C-L's would let people die from thirst before interfering in a 'free
>market'. Others would say screw the market and give that man a drink.
I'd give that man a drink out of my last canteen--but I sure as hell wouldn't
force anyone
to do. If they don't feel like listening to you, of course they're on their
own, but I wouldn't feel right saying nothing. Sometimes just e-mailing a link
or two at the right time will do it: it costs me next to nothing and gets more
people to use privacy tools and PGP, where's th
with "I'd give up all my civil liberties to feel safe again" there
were enough who were jolted into taking responsibility for their own security to
make a difference.
Something to consider when thinking about the future of crypto, anyway.
~Faustine.
***
The right to be let
with "I'd give up all my civil liberties to feel safe again" there
were enough who were jolted into taking responsibility for their own security to
make a difference.
Something to consider when thinking about the future of crypto, anyway.
~Faustine.
***
The right to be let
its tie-ins with the banking system, or prohibit businesses
>within their borders from using it.
>That's the crypto winter.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely do you think it is that these problems will
be resolved in, say, the next decade? Where are the people most likely to make
i
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Faustine wrote:
Tim wrote:
> Getting away fron digital cash for a moment, If you'd care to point me
> to any examples of crypto companies really focused and committed to developing
> applications that are commercially appealing
n around here. What was it you were saying about moderate voices on the
list the other day? It's not as if anyone is likely to mistake your opinions
for anyone else's. Oh well, to each his own.
~Faustine.
***
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
- --W
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:52:17PM -0500, Faustine wrote:
> So maybe it's worth putting a little effort into thinking of ways to
> AOLize (for lack of a better term) digital cash: a mass market reqires
> mass appeal.
>What a good
BASIC in
elementary school, the way most of us probably did.
~Faustine.
***
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
- --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court
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Tim wrote:
>The list has only 5% of the content it had in its glory years, 1992-95.
>And perhaps only 10% of its content in its declining years, 1996-98.
>It's now at about half the level of its senile years, 1999-2000. This
>past year has been the
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Gil wrote:
Faustine writes:
>Tim wrote:
>
> >Besides the above points, a "rigorous and objective analysis" is work
> >for bean counters...and is only interesting to other bean counters.
>So von Neumann, Kahn, Schelling
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Anon wrote:
>Topic categories, which follow the word "topics":
> e Encryption
> apAnonymity/pseudonymity
> tcTechnical crypto
> cob Cypherpunk oriented businesses
> tpg Threats to privacy by government
> tpng Threats to privacy by b
w their examples than spend year after year chitchatting
on Usenet. Such an intelligent and creative man, what a waste.
>What got the Cypherpunks rolling was not "rigorous and objective
>analysis."
Good point, but where did you ever hear me say analysis was enough?
> Faus
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declan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Faustine wrote:
> It sure is. That's why I think (and have always openly said, here and
> everywhere) we need more pro-freedom policy analysts in Washington.
>Of course, if you
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Tim wrote:
On Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 11:20 AM, Faustine wrote:
> Fine. I dont know why you seem to be missing my point: being provoked
> into incriminating yourself by an anonymous troll is an entirely different
> issue from discu
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Tim wrote:
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 08:42 PM, Faustine wrote:
> Why talk about it though? The sheer satisfaction of imagining feds and
> sheeple crapping their pants in fearful anticipation? Even if nothing
> happened at all, yo
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