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Karsten M. Self
> > > IF you are a United States Citizen or Resident and
> > > YOU HAVE SUFFERED A FINANCIAL LOSS write "Financial
> > > Loss - Contact Me ASAP" on the documents you have
> > > received and Fax them to the Task Force at
> > > 202-406-6930 and give
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On 22 Sep 2001, at 19:27, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
> hey tim,
>
> maybe you remember me from the early days of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] just wanted to butt in here and reply
> to your post which i saw forwarded to some other list... it
> beats me why americans and the western media generally
>
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On 24 Sep 2001, at 15:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's not a violation of US law for US agents to spy on
> people in Australia, but it's almost certainly a violation
> of Australian law. Similarly, it's probably not a
> violation of Australian law for Australian agents to
> eavsdrop
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On 20 Oct 2001, at 16:31, Jim Choate wrote:
> What it takes to have reasonable living standards and
> sufficient resources to help ones children do better than
> themselves. The reality is that these sweatshops do exist,
> that they do exploit the workers, and that they are
> specifical
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James A. Donald:
> > In Africa two Soviet sponsored tyrannies, both of which
> > had been committing mass murder on an enormous scale,
> > were overthrown though not replaced by democracies.
On 20 Oct 2001, at 0:30, Reese wrote:
> Do these two former-Soviet/current-? have names?
Eth
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Somoza fell largely because of US pressure, so he was not
"our SOB". Furthermore however nasty Somoza was, we did not
see tens of thousands of refugees escaping Nicaragua to
neighbouring countries during his rule.
The short story of Nicaragua is that there was a US sponsored
overthro
--
> David Honig wrote:
>
> > No one forces a farmer to the city to look for an industrial job.
On 22 Oct 2001, at 12:21, Ken Brown wrote:
> In general, no. But it happens now and again. Governments
certainly did
> in (say) the old Soviet Union
I do not think so.
Lenin surrounded the citi
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On 22 Oct 2001, at 23:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My understanding
> (from questioning on this topic in the distant past with an
> MD/"shrink") is that the sodium
> thiopental/pentobarbital/etc. "truth serum" is an urban
> legend. He was quite specific that the drug was a definite
--
On 25 Oct 2001, at 0:00, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> A bare one objection to comprehensive market based
> security: a market needs private property, and other civil
> rights, in order to function efficiently, as predicted.
> Protection is what guarantees those rights. If you place
> protect
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On 25 Oct 2001, at 0:00, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> > > A bare one objection to comprehensive market based
> > > security: a market needs private property, and other
> > > civil rights, in order to function efficiently, as
> > > predicted. Protection is what guarantees those
> > > rights.
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Observer that in the real world, food and clothing is
> > provided by the market, and no one goes hungry or naked, but
On 26 Oct 2001, at 20:37, Jim Choate wrote:
> A truly 'white bread' commentary.
I observe the pigeons are just as tame in
--
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> > I just have a lot of trouble equating terrorism and the
> > American war of independence.
On 26 Oct 2001, at 20:43, Jim Choate wrote:
> Why? The Americans were most certainly
> terrorist/revolutionaries/freedom fighters/etc.
If you cannot
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James A. Donald:
> > If you cannot tell the difference between terrorists and
> > freedom fighters, you got shit for brains.
> >
> > The revolutionaries killed british soldiers in America. They
> > did not go to england and kill english children.
Jim Choate:
> Why is where they were kille
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On 28 Oct 2001, at 1:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.hungerfreeamerica.com/
> http://www.uri.edu/endhunger/ http://www.secondharvest.org/
> http://www.msue.msu.edu/fnh/hunger/toolbox/hunger.html
> http://www.brook.edu/press/books/hunger.htm
>
> I could, of course, go on and on
The following is theory, constructed from readily available
public sources. This theory has not been tested in practice.
Anthrax spores disperse in neutral water and most nutrient
broths, settling to the bottom so slowly that for all
practical purposes they do not settle. To separate them one
w
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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 08:58:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > What matters is what those one kills are doing. British
> > soldiers [in the American revolutionary war] were
> > repressing colonials. The guys in the trade towers were
> > not doing anything to Muslims.
On 28 Oct 2
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On 4 Nov 2001, at 1:58, Raymond D. Mereniuk wrote:
> What am I missing here? Was the prospective passenger
> carrying weapons or anything which could be judged as a
> weapon.? Was the prospective passenger deemed a threat to
> any of the other passengers or the completion of the flight
>
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On 7 Nov 2001, at 17:21, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Marcel Popescu wrote:
>
> > You're still incredibly deluded. Even Hayek (bad as he is) would have
> > supported someone's decision NOT to sell to someone else, your rethoric
> > notwithstanding. BTW, do you have anything el
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James A. Donald:
> > If the anthrax attack is connected to the 9/11 attack,
> > then the fibbies get to play errand boy for the CIA and
> > military intelligence. If the anthrax attack is
> > internal, then they are in charge and they get to spy on
> > all us right wing extremist hate
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On 14 Nov 2001, at 0:52, Petro wrote:
> So did you discuss what was going to be done *after* the
> current government is destroyed? What sort of government
> will follow?
Preferably none whatsoever.
> Or was this just an exercise in later day
> bakuninism?
Bakunin was a m
On 15 Nov 2001, at 20:14, cpaul wrote:
> The Kabul office of the Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera, the Arab
> satellite station that has broadcast two videotapes of Osama bin Laden
> denouncing America, was obliterated in US bombing early yesterday morning.
Next, Berkeley.
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On 18 Nov 2001, at 14:17, Neil Johnson wrote:
> > > It would seem to me that digital cash would be better off
> > > not being tied either of these trust systems, but somehow
> > > develop it's own.
James A. Donald:
> > That is a really dumb idea.
> >
> > It took governments a generation an
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Analogously in Vietnam, the enemy mingled with the
> > populace, so that even with the best of intentions, US
> > forces wound up killing a lot of ordinary civilians, a
> > problem made far worse by the stupid "body count" policy,
> > where yo
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On 6 Nov 2001, at 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Taser" is the stun gun to which I was referrring as unsaleable (is that a
> word?) to mere civilians.
The web page http://www.airtaser.com/ seems to claim it is legal in California.
--digsig
James A. Donald
6YeGpsZR+n
--
The evidence is now overwhelming that the anthrax attacks are
connected to the 9/11 attack, and the current events in
Afghanistan. However the Fibbies are still determinedly
pushing the position that these attacks come from internal
right wing terrorists.
If the anthrax attack is connecte
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On 16 Nov 2001, at 16:50, Aimee Farr wrote:
> I meant it in the sense that it sounds like they are
> talking about criminal defense lawyers.
>
> (i.e., "make numerous references to the US Constitution,"
> "defenders," etc-etc.)
Criminal defense has already been criminalized in hard to
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On 17 Nov 2001, at 10:00, Tim May wrote:
> 6. The failure to get true digital money. Call it what you
> like, "digital cash" or "ecash" or even one of Hettinga's
> pet names, but the fact is that for both political and
> technical reasons we don't have digital cash. This has
> ripple effect
--
Someone wrote:
> Speaking of laws by Christmas, anyone want to give odds on
> the accuracy of Tim May's prediction on September 13:
>
>Dark times are coming. I'll bet a complete ban on
>strong, unescrowed crypto is passed in all European
>countries, Russia, China, Japan, and the
--
On 18 Nov 2001, at 2:00, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> The larger question is, what is it about the cypherpunk
> worldview which is so wrong? Why do cypherpunks constantly
> predict events which don't come true?
Those who plan revolution always overestimate the pace of
change, just as those who s
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On 18 Nov 2001, at 14:17, Neil Johnson wrote:
> So how do we develop this trust for digital cash ?
>
> Digicash tried tying back to the trust of existing money
> systems (unsuccessfully).
>
> E-gold, digi-gold, etc. are trying to tie back to the trust
> of scarce materials (the jury's stil
--
> > Federal law prohibits paramilitary training and the
> > manufacture or transport of weapons with the knowledge or
> > intent that they will be used to create a civil
> > disturbance. (Ref 10) Federal law differs from most state
> > laws prohibiting paramilitary training in that it appl
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t is standard procedure in Afghanistan to kill foreigners who
are on the losing side. If they spare afghans they are being
more tolerant than usual.
Indeed, this represents a major step forward in civilization
and humane treatment of the defeated. The old Afghan
procedure was that foreig
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On 20 Nov 2001, at 17:04, Anonymous wrote:
> Third, this leaves the use of digital cash to purchase
> information goods and services online. The problem is, few
> companies have succeeded so far in selling information
> goods online
As you mention below, pornography is the big exception.
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 08:46:18PM -0800, Petro wrote:
> > Not necessarily. It is argued both that Libertarians are
> > chicken-shit anarchists (afraid to take the last step) or
> > that Anarchists are just extreme Libertarians.
On 22 Nov 2001, at 12:36, Mark Henderson wrote:
> As far a
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On 21 Nov 2001, at 23:26, Ryan Lackey wrote:
> Bob Hettinga wrote:
>
> > Quoting "Blanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>":
>
> > > But sometimes it seems like it will be a Cold Day in
> > > Hell before that happens.
>
> > > (Ryan, would you make this your next project?
> > > We'd all appreciate it *e
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On 21 Nov 2001, at 2:02, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> This is nothing new for long-time subscribers to this list.
> As Eric Hughes kept saying when I first got here in 1994,
> it is immediate and final settlement that attracts the
> capital and payment system markets to cryptographic
> protocols
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On 21 Nov 2001, at 16:37, Blanc wrote:
> But what I anticipate would happen at that point is another
> Afghanistan, with ten thousand bloomin' territories full of
> prickly warring tribes and war lords.
>
> The first thing which happens after a power vaccuum is
> created is that another
--
Some time ago I said that a short victorious war in a place
far away, fought by volunteers, would not do too much damage
to liberty.
And when victory was well in hand, they shut down not merely
havenco, but the entire internet access of Somalia, causing
very serious damage to the cypherpun
--
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Wei Dai wrote:
> > But there is a scalar number attached to a person which
> > deserves the name "reputation capital", namely his own
> > judgement of what his reputation is worth.
On 29 Nov 2001, at 18:41, Jim Choate wrote:
> People don't think of themselves as a '5'.
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On 30 Nov 2001, at 21:21, mattd wrote:
> "libertarian socialist" is an oxymoron." Like
> anarcho-capitalist?
Anarcho capitalism corresponds to what any normal person
would call anarchy -- see for example my web page "Brief
explanation of anarcho capitalism"
http://www.jim.com/anarcho-.htm
On 30 Nov 2001, at 11:04, Trei, Peter wrote:
> 2. Liquid propellant guns (search on that term) are well
> developed for artillary, but I don't know of any light
> weapons which use this. LPGs are kind of neat in
> howitzer type applications because (1) A tank of
> propellant & a rack of projecti
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On 1 Dec 2001, at 8:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm surprised I've gotten so much disagreement over this,
> particularly since my original statement was much weaker
> than it could have been. For reputation to have a single
> well defined value it is necessary but not sufficient that
>
--
James A. Donald:
> > "Anarcho capitalism corresponds to what any normal person
> > would call anarchy"
mattd
> Who said I was normal?
If you use the word anarchy to refer to something that is
very far from anarchy as it is normally understood, without
explaining that you are using a speci
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > For reputation to have a single well defined value it
> > > is necessary but not sufficient that there be a market
> > > in reputations; it must be a COMMODITIZED market.
James A. Donald:
> > Something has a single well defined value to its
> > possessor with
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On 3 Dec 2001, at 8:06, mattd wrote:
> Disaster struck [anarcho socialism in Catalonia] for many
> reasons and it was not all as grim as the stories you put
> on the web.You could cite many more sources on your site
> that you wont thus letting people get away with questioning
> your honest
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On 6 Dec 2001, at 20:03, mattd wrote:
> Coercion is implicit in all capitalism above low level
> market and trade.
Nonsense.
If you do not like one guy's prices or wages, you can go to
another, or start your own business.
Without property rights, the specialization of labor has to
tak
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On 7 Dec 2001, at 5:35, mattd wrote:
> The implicit coercion is the protection racket of the state
> lurking in the background and attempting to monopolies
> money.
Money in the US was largely privately issued until 1915.
Capitalism long predates government monopolies of money.
The word
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On 8 Dec 2001, at 13:50, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> David Wieck's critique of Rothbard, applicable to
> Libertarianism in general, will close this discussion.
>
>``Out of the history of anarchist thought and action
> Rothbard has pulled forth a single thread, the thread of
> individuali
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On 8 Dec 2001, at 23:09, mattd wrote:
> Subject: Are you an anarchist? Dont make me apply this
> cattle prod to your genitals. Anarchist groups among 39
> designated by Department of State as "terrorists" (english)
>
> Three anarchists groups are among the Department of State's
> recent
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On 9 Dec 2001, at 13:01, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> From: "Khoder bin Hakkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > "Views reminiscent of Soviet propaganda" By ARNAUD DE
> > BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
> >
> http://kevxml.infospace.com/_1_4JI4TKG04ZR6NFV__info/kevxml
> ?kcfg=upi-article
> &sin=2
--
James A. Donald:
> > "Chomsky is a long exposed commie liar, and if CNN was
> > not commie enough for him, that is because Stalin was
> > not commie enough for him."
mattd:
> Any discriminating cypherpunk who reads chomskys
> ,'Objectivity and liberal scholarship". and views jamesd's
--
On 10 Dec 2001, at 16:20, mattd wrote:
> Was it Chomsky who pointed out that the capitalist firm is
> structured like a totalitarian state?
The difference is that you can change firms, or start your
own, without being shot.
--digsig
James A. Donald
6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITn
--
On 10 Dec 2001, at 0:00, Jim Choate wrote:
> This is laughable, and a tad repetitive...
>
> You say you've checked [Chomsky's] sources and found them
> lacking.
And I have given numerous examples, to which no one has
replied, except as mattd has recently done -- by citing
Chomsky as eviden
--
On 10 Dec 2001, at 11:23, Ken Brown wrote:
> About 3 years ago I found out that I could understand some
> of your postings by exchanging the words "socialism" for
> "capitalism" when ever they occurred - you fell for the
> Soviet lie that called their oppressive state capitalism by
>
--
James A Donald
> > And I have given numerous examples [of Chomsky
> > misrepresenting his sources], to which no one has
> > replied, except as mattd has recently done -- by citing
> > Chomsky as evidence for the truthfulness of Chomsky, much
> > after the fashion of a Christian who ci
--
On 11 Dec 2001, at 12:20, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Well, by your standards, any journalist who makes an
> innocent mistake would be a liar.
CNN edited interviews with people so as to make them appear
to admit to war crimes commited against civilians during the
Vietnam war, when the full t
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On 10 Dec 2001, at 16:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An idea just popped into my head, I was wondering if anyone
> had thought of this before. Most likely someone has, and
> has either proven the idea is impossible or has figured out
> how to do it.
>
> Th idea is, when buying some good o
--
On 12 Dec 2001, at 7:11, mattd wrote:
> Quantum mechanics based on heisenbergs uncertainty
> principal is under attack.The two slit experiment has
> another explanation that even revives 'ether'
I am happy to observe that the intellectual level of the
remaining socialists has been sliding
--
On 12 Dec 2001, at 1:16, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> Of course there are other considerations in a settlement,
> such as avoiding bad publicity -- even if you think you
> might win a case by arguing you made a mistake but it was
> not malicious.
Just google through the Tailwind debate. The
--
On 12 Dec 2001, at 10:39, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> * Is it appropriate to use the powerful word "censorship"
> to describe what happened when the National Review dropped
> Ann Coulter? Coulter has other outlets that will publish
> her work; she is not muzzled. Like other news organizations
--
On 13 Dec 2001, at 7:04, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> Once again I am seeing eyewitness reports claiming more
> U.S. Casualties. Yet I don't see simular reports in the
> U.S. Press confirming or denying these claims.
The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
In the US, unlike most other cou
--
On 14 Dec 2001, at 19:50, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series
> about a child pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment,
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html. Of
> course everything the pornographer says is taken as gospel,
>
--
On 16 Dec 2001, at 12:58, mattd wrote:
> Fisk is one of those rare beasts,a truthful journalist.
I was filled with rage when I read him piously declare that
he understands why they're angry and doesn't hold it against
them at all. Such saintly piety reminds me of Heng Samrin.
--digsi
--
> > If no one has already done this, the humor value in
> > publishing a public key under names like OBL would
> > certainly collect some interesting > messages.
On 16 Dec 2001, at 13:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Certainly good for a few chuckles at first, but I wouldn't
> want to be aro
--
On 13 Dec 2001, at 7:04, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
> > > Once again I am seeing eyewitness reports claiming more
> > > U.S. Casualties. Yet I don't see simular reports in
> > > the U.S. Press confirming or denying these claims.
James A. Donald:
> > The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
--
James A. Donald:
> > Someone who is too blind to recognize evil when it heaves
> > a rock at his head needs some more rocks in the face to
> > improve his vision. [...] a short while ago, the
> > Taliban was slaughtering various minority groups,
> > throwing their bodies into wells to pois
--
On 17 Dec 2001, at 14:46, A. Melon wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49141,00.html
>
> Incredible. Abso-fucking-lutely incredible. After telling
> us all about the poor little child pornographer, Larry
> Benedict, and how the mean old police are out to get him,
> Declan f
--
On 17 Dec 2001, at 21:01, Jim Choate wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
>
> > Typical Choate, missing the point.
>
> Merry Christmas to you too.
>
> > A remailer simply gets sent a message,
> > applies it's decryption key,
>
> The same key it shares with everyone else (all
--
On 21 Dec 2001, at 11:13, mattd wrote:
> Yes! Lets have a libertarian-versus-anarchist debate
We cannot have such a debate on this list because almost all
the libertarians here are anarchists.
(Except, of course, by your peculiar use of the word
"anarchist", whereby an anarchist is some w
--
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Len Sassaman wrote:
>
> > The user would purchase remailer tokens (digital cash) from a
token vendor
> > (the bank). This is an exchange similar to car wash tokens or
> > TicketMaster[tm], where the seller receives "real cash" and the
buyer
> > receives a tangible pro
--
On 20 Dec 2001, at 21:00, Steve Schear wrote:
> We should all be ashamed. The main reason we don't have
> the private payment system many have discussed is
> lazyness/"better things to do with their time" by those
> with the technical ability to create the SW (if I were one
> of them t
; implementing.)
mattd
> That is a filthy lie.Last week I urged cypherpunks to
> compare and contrast the noam chomsky article,"Objectivity
> and liberal scholarship."with the material jamesd has on
> display at his website.
You cite Chomsky as evidence for the truthfullnes
--
James A. Donald:
> >Yet you cite (as evidence that I am a liar) Ian McKay's
> >article on the Catalonian anarchists, in which he concedes
> > that the anarchists wound up creating what most people
> > would call a state, indeed a terrorist dictatorship, but
> > argues that I am lying in tha
--
On Sunday, December 23, 2001, at 01:29 AM, Bill Stewart
wrote:
> > But the easy part of doing digital cash is the software,
> > and it doesn't take years of Stallman-level or
> > Chaum-level or Ian-or-Ben-or-Lucky-level wizardry to
> > produce it, though it's really helpful to have their
>
James A. Donald:
> > they mostly found themselves using the old familiar methods of
recently existent
socialism, and when they did not use those methods, socialism
did not work. That
> > is the important truth about Catalonia,
mattd:
> Libertarian socialism did work,see Gaston
Leval,Bookchin,
--
On 23 Dec 2001, at 21:39, Black Unicorn wrote:
> While this might not directly impact the person running or
> developing the system it certain serves to discourage users
> of the system after a single allegation has been made.
> Customer flight would be awfully dramatic I suspect.
You are
--
mattd:
> > > Gaston Leval,Bookchin,Paz,Chomsky and even H.Thomas.
James A. Donald:
> > Commie liars, except for Thomas, who does not say what
> > you claim he does.
mattd:
> Ahwell! Still if you want to lump stalinists,trots and
> anarchs together
The difference between Stalinists and T
On 24 Dec 2001, at 9:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> How simple can an ecash mint be?
>
> For the simplest case there should be no accounts. All the mint does is
> exchange coins for other coins. There are no customer lists, no records
> of transactions (except as needed for double-spending detection
--
James A. Donald:
> > One could of course have a pile of gold, and physically
> > and in person exchange coins for physical gold
On 25 Dec 2001, at 9:44, Tim May wrote:
> 1. Must money be tied to intrinsic stores of value? I think
> the answer is clearly "No." The U.S. dollar is not in any
s of ordinary Russians. The original
> > point of dispute between Stalin and Trotsky was that
> > Trotsky though Stalin was too soft on the kulaks.
mattd:
> Spain,jamesd,I thought we were talking about SPAIN! I know
> a bit about Trotsky's russian background,the betrayal of
&
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On 31 Dec 2001, at 0:49, mattd wrote:
> CommieRot! (english) by James 8:00pm Mon Sep 3 '01
> Anarchists killed more people in Spain than pinochet in
> Chile.See...http://www.jim.com/world.html Post cut. Yeah,
> but... (english) by Superguy 10:50pm Mon Sep 3 '01
> ...anarchists only kill
--
On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 04:11 PM, Tim May wrote:
> > I think it is a moral necessity to kill anyone trying to
> > steal anything (beyond the utterly trivial or confusable,
> > e.g., one should not kill someone picking up a toy left
> > out in the yard...might be a mistake, he might b
--
On 10 Jan 2002, at 23:46, david wrote:
> Any jurisdiction that will prosecute and
> convict someone because the body of a person attempting
> burglary happens to be on the outside instead of the inside
> will certainly prosecute and get a conviction for tampering
> with the evidence. T
--
On 11 Jan 2002, at 11:45, Eric Cordian wrote:
> Not quite. 11 Israeli athletes were captured by some
> Palestinians. They were killed when the Israeli military
> attacked the site where they were being held, and
> slaughtered everything that moved.
>
> It is and always has been the
--
On 11 Jan 2002, at 19:26, Eric Cordian wrote:
> This is not simply a case of reporting something, and then
> tossing the burden of proof on the opposition to prove it
> wasn't said. This is a case of something pretty widely
> disseminated on the Net, to which not a single official
> voice
--
On 20 Jan 2002, at 1:53, Aimee Farr wrote:
> Somebody wrote:
>
> > I, in particular (and many other Cpunk Movement members)
> > do not consider People That Control Armed Men to be "us"
> > and will not identify
> their snitching
> > capabilities with my well-being.
>
> So "Cypherpunks" is
--
On 20 Jan 2002, at 13:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Effective revolutionaries need intelligence, organization
> and discipline to conduct effective propaganda, plan
> sucessful insurrections, and sieze and hold power."
Anarcho capitalists do not plan to seize and hold power.
Intelligenc
--
On 23 Jan 2002, at 8:40, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> It's been said that the defining test of a payment system
> is how it behaves when things go wrong.
>
> A dispute arises over an ecash payment. Alice says Bob
> sent her ecash but when she tried to exchange it she
> learned that it had alread
--
On 29 Jan 2002, at 19:01, Jei wrote:
> Enron May Spark Revolt of
> Professionals
>
> By James K. Galbraith
>
> James K. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas
> at Austin, is the author, most recently, of "Inequality and
> Industrial Cha
--
A lot of doom and gloom posts have appeared about how
cypherpunks failed of their dreams.
We expected to overthrow governments world wide by tuesday,
and we did not. But despite this the cypherpunk agenda is
still progressing well.
We do have universal strong communications encryption, i
--
On 3 Feb 2002, Dr. Evil wrote:
> > Microsoft does support encrypted disks. They do in
> > Windows XP and I think they may have had it earlier too.
> > Who doesn't support encrypted disk? The open source
> > guys. There is only _one_ open source OS that currently
> > supports encrypted di
--
James A. Donald:
> > > it is regrettable that disk encryption is not part of
> > > the operating system -- but if Microsoft put it in
> > > before we had a strong, widely adopted system, they
> > > would doubtless muck it up.
Dr Evil
> Microsoft does support encrypted disks.
So they do:
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Jei, quoting an old but still too true document
> > An additional grave concern is key management. Contrary
> > to some beliefs,key management is not a solved problem.
> > All of the proposals contain some mechanism for key
> > management, but none of them have been demonstrated to be
> >
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On 7 Feb 2002, at 1:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jim, I believe Peter's point, and mine as well, is that
> posters such as Jei and mattd differ by their intent. Jei
> is obviously a participant, and an active one. Whether or
> not anyone cares to listen, he's "legit" in that he is
> act
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On 13 Feb 2002, at 12:16, Aimee Farr wrote:
> Jim Bell was arrested for stalking "protected persons." Not
> even our military is exposed to the sort of personalized
> fear and exposure that public servants and their families
> experience today.'
Perhaps that is because the military do n
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On 13 Feb 2002, at 12:23, Aimee Farr wrote:
> "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the
> blood of tyrants."
>
> It's sad, but I have come to hate that quote, because
> contemporary history paints a much different picture: it is
> no tree of liberty, and it damn sure isn
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On 21 Feb 2002, at 1:03, F. Marc de Piolenc wrote:
> She could be referring to the Japanese takeover of French
> Indochina. The Axis powers met fierce, though poorly
> organized, resistance in their invasion of France. It was
> no cakewalk.
It was a cakewalk. The french bent over, asked
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On 23 Feb 2002, at 12:33, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> This is the last mattd post I'll see for a while, I expect,
> since I've updated my kill.rc file. But the prospect of a
> cypherpunks subscriber threatening to send 2 MB attachments
> to the list is not a pleasant one.
I like my enemie
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:04:16AM -, Frog3 wrote:
> The cost [To factor RSA 1024] is the need to build a
> machine that can do 53 billion simultaneous, independent
> ECM factorizations for smoothness testing. It's not clear
> how amenable this would be to hardware implementation.
>
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> > this means that with the proposed 29 bits, it would take
> > about 1.5 hours on the celeron 333, and more than one day
> > on the 486.
On 9 Mar 2002, at 14:29, Adam Back wrote:
> So this is indeed a problem.
>
> The other proposal I saw recently here was adapative
> charging -- charge
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