Re: Mixes or Laundering? Re: Payment mixes for anonymity

2000-03-13 Thread Jim Burnes
"R. A. Hettinga" wrote: > > At 9:47 PM -0500 on 3/9/00, Tim May wrote: > > > What Louis Freeh or Janet Reno or Boris Badonoff thinks about these > > developments is interesting from a tactical point of view, in terms > > of knowing where to deploy resources and how to man the front lines, > > bu

Re: Microsoft: A Day Of Satisfaction As Corporate Bully

2000-04-05 Thread Jim Burnes
David Honig wrote: > > At 09:57 AM 4/5/00 -0400, ... wrote: > >Truth is, *NIX is too powerful - they fear the command prompt. > > Bull. They rightly loathe a user interface memorable only > if you use it constantly. Which relies on recall, not > recognition. And recall of cryptic spells, no l

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Burnes
Tom Vogt wrote: > > Marcel Popescu wrote: > > Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not > > interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred > > years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion > > people, and t

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Burnes
David Honig wrote: > > At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote: > >Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven > >years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the > >planet. > > Polynomial vs. ex

Re: Who to send back (ecotones)

2000-04-27 Thread Jim Burnes
Tim May wrote: > > At 12:42 PM -0400 4/26/00, Jim Burnes wrote: > > > >Starvation and privation in most of Africa is almost a stereotype. > > > >Stick with a minimal government and something approaching english common > >law and we have goods and ha

Re: Practically paying for MP3s and then replacing government.

2000-05-12 Thread Jim Burnes
Anonymous wrote: > > Recently I saw at comment on slashdot suggesting how to pay for MP3s. Suppose you >know 100,000 people like a particular artist. If they all aggree to pay $1 upfront >for the release of the next album then it is released. If the artist does their job - >and keeps turning o

Re: how EXACTLY does this protect privacy?

2000-07-17 Thread Jim Burnes
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote: > Matthew 22:17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes > to Caesar or not?" > 18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you > trying to trap me? > 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brou

Re: FBI Requests File Removal

2000-07-21 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 8:17 PM -0400 7/20/00, Steven Furlong wrote: > >John Young wrote: > >> I have agreed with your request not to identify the two FBI Special > >> Agents to whom I spoke today. > > > >Why did they request that, and why did you agree? It's not like they're >

Re: Why Cops and Cypherpunk Meetings Don't Go Together

2000-08-25 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 6:26 PM -0400 8/24/00, Matt Elliott wrote: > > >Never let the Jesus freaks define what rights are. > > > >Why? Is there something inherent in believing in Christ Jesus, that makes > >one incapable of rational thought on the issue of rights? > > I never

Re: Whipped Europeans

2000-09-01 Thread Jim Burnes
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, David Marshall wrote: > Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > choppers are zooming up and down the canyons as part of "CAMP," the > > Campaign Against Marijuana Production. Choppers find pot fields, > > troops are dispatched, shoot-outs occur. All over a plant, an > >

Re: Germans to tax PCs for Lars

2000-09-07 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Tom Vogt wrote: > Tim May wrote: > > > > Governments like this sort of thing, however. Tax everyone, then > > spend the revenues as they wish. > > not quite right. it is NOT the government that collects, and this is not > a tax. there's a "non-profit" organisation called GEMA

Re: Rebirth of Guilds

2000-09-27 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, James A.. Donald wrote: > -- > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Tim May wrote: > > > Lynching is an act of physical aggression, not at all the same thing > > as choosing not to trade with someone, not to invite him into one's home, > not to interact with him. > > At 06:32 AM 9/27/2000

Re: [Correction] More blather from the DEMS on FL

2000-11-08 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote: > At 10:50 AM -0500 11/8/00, William H. Geiger III wrote: > >IMHO if the courts order a new election in this county then they need to > >do it for the entire state as the electorial college is winner take all > >and it would be unjust to allow this one county to

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-09 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, William H. Geiger III wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/08/00 > >at 09:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >If the citizens of Missouri chose to elect a deceased person as Senator, > >I think that's exactly what they should get. Leave the seat empty for > >two years. >

Re: A very brief politcal rant

2000-11-09 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thu, 09 Nov 2000, Ernest Hua wrote: > > Are you arguing that there were people who did not know > that they were voting for someone who was dead? > > Yes. I agree that the appointment may or may not be > considered legal, depending upon how the law is interpreted. > > However, what is abundan

Re: Missouri AG needing postnatal abortion

2000-11-20 Thread Jim Burnes
uot;I dont really have any recourse," he said. Ummm, let me think. Move to a different ISP/NSP idiot! jim burnes

Re: online copy of Vinge's True Names

2000-11-30 Thread Jim Burnes
On Thursday 30 November 2000 15:31, Bill Stewart wrote: > At 10:09 PM 11/29/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > > Hmm, all I get when I go there is a blank page, but it looks like some > >really big files a loading before it gets there.Wonder wht I'm > > downloading? Wonder if I'm bullet proof? Ca

IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re:

2000-12-06 Thread Jim Burnes
On Tuesday 05 December 2000 22:05, R. A. Hettinga wrote: > At 9:06 PM -0500 on 12/5/00, David Honig wrote: > > A PDA would have been harder to hack, one imagines. > > This is why Chaum wants a small cryptographic device with it's own I/O, > certainly. > > We'll get one when there's enough money be

Re: Yahoo gives in to french fascists

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Burnes
sm, bravery or the warrior spirit? Who decides if they are glorifying or simply portraying violence as a means to and end. BTW: You could have spared us from posting an embedded URL. While my mail client can handle it, its one of the worst forms of spam. jim burnes -- Sometimes it is said tha

Re: Gun Activists Have A Stake Against Filtering Software[Censorware]

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > > No surprise to most members of this list that this government trend > toward withholding money it has taken in other ways is a serious > threat to freedom. I believe the original rallying cry was: "No Taxation Without Representation