Re: CDR Anonymizer ?

2001-09-24 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: [silk] Re: Avoid hard targets tomorrow (fwd)

2001-09-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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 >

Re: RE: Expectation of privacy in public?

2001-09-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: CDR: Re: Another precious moment from shrub...

2001-10-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Another precious moment from shrub...

2001-10-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-24 Thread jamesd
-- > 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

Re: CDR: Re: FBI considers torture as suspects stay silent

2001-10-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-26 Thread jamesd
-- 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.

Re: Market Competition for Security Measures

2001-10-27 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-27 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-28 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Hunger in Amerikka (was: Market Competition for Security Measures)

2001-10-28 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Weaponizing anthrax

2001-10-28 Thread jamesd
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

Re: Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

2001-10-28 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying

2001-11-04 Thread jamesd
-- 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 >

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: FBI wants to believe in domestic terrorists.

2001-11-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: "Rigorous and objective"

2001-11-14 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Al-Jazeera office in Kabul obliterated by US bombing

2001-11-15 Thread jamesd
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.

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-18 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying

2001-11-04 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Stun Guns a Firearm?

2001-11-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

FBI wants to believe in domestic terrorists.

2001-11-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: Monkeywrenching

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Cypherpunk failures

2001-11-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-18 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Sedition

2001-11-13 Thread jamesd
-- > > 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

Re: Soldiers celebrate with executions - smh.com.au - World

2001-11-13 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks

2001-11-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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.

Re: The Crypto Winter

2001-11-22 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: The Crypto-Financial Paradox

2001-11-22 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: The Crypto-Financial Paradox

2001-11-22 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: IP: Wanna make biological weapons and take out cities? $10. (fwd)

2001-11-22 Thread jamesd
-- 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

More damage to liberty than I expected.

2001-11-29 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-11-29 Thread jamesd
-- 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'.

Re: libertarian vs. socialist

2001-11-30 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: fuel injected firearm

2001-12-01 Thread jamesd
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

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-12-01 Thread jamesd
-- 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 >

Re: libertarian vs. socialist (Im a libertarian socialist!)

2001-12-03 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

2001-12-02 Thread jamesd
-- [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

Re: libertarian vs. socialist (Im a libertarian socialist!)

2001-12-04 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Real capitalism falling down drunk

2001-12-06 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Real capitalism falling down drunk

2001-12-07 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Jamesd-david Honig:Good cop,bad cop

2001-12-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Are you now or have you ever been a crypto-anarchist?

2001-12-08 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-09 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-09 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Congress of the rat.

2001-12-10 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-10 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-11 Thread jamesd
-- 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 >

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-11 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-11 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: "Spoiling" digital cash

2001-12-11 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Quantum encryption hazard

2001-12-11 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: UPI editor: dissent is like soviet propoganda

2001-12-12 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Steganography, My Ass: The Dangers of Private and Self-Censorship in Wartime

2001-12-12 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Uzbekistan Eyewitnesses See Dozens of US Casualties

2001-12-13 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Poor little child pornographer

2001-12-15 Thread jamesd
-- 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, >

Re: Tailgunner jamesd

2001-12-15 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: CDR: OBL's public key

2001-12-16 Thread jamesd
-- > > 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

Re: Uzbekistan Eyewitnesses See Dozens of US Casualties

2001-12-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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.

Re: CDR: CNN.com - U.S. vetoes Mideast peace move - December 15, 2001

2001-12-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Poor little child pornographer

2001-12-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: CNN.com on Remailers

2001-12-17 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.

2001-12-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Pay per use remailers and remailer reliability tracking.

2001-12-21 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.

2001-12-22 Thread jamesd
; 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

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.,

2001-12-23 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Start Ups, Crypto Companies, and Commercialization

2001-12-23 Thread jamesd
-- 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 >

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.

2001-12-23 Thread jamesd
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,

Re: Liability, economic realities and self delusion in ecash developers. Or: Why not "just write ecash" (again).

2001-12-24 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.

2001-12-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Simplest possible ecash mint

2001-12-25 Thread jamesd
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

Re: Big Bang Thought Experiment

2001-12-25 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Tim May on the end of a rope.

2001-12-26 Thread jamesd
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 &

Re: jamesd,Tim Mays lying black dog.

2001-12-30 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Spooky noises and things that go bump in the night

2002-01-10 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: CDR: Re: Spooky noises and things that go bump in the night

2002-01-12 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: [Reformatted] Burning down the olympics

2002-01-12 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Ariel Sharon's Alleged Faux Pas

2002-01-12 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Crypto-Anarchist Activities Control Act ("CAACA")

2002-01-20 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Herman Kahn on the futility of pansy-left anarchism (was: Responsibility)

2002-01-20 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Ecash fraud resolution

2002-01-23 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Enron May Spark Revolt of Professionals

2002-01-31 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Cypherpunk agenda succeeding

2002-01-31 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Cypherpunk agenda succeeding

2002-02-03 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: Cypherpunk agenda succeeding

2002-02-03 Thread jamesd
-- 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: h

Re: CYBERWAR: A Brief Comparison of Email Encryption Protocols

2002-02-03 Thread jamesd
-- 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 > >

Re: CDR: Re: list spam, game theory, etal.

2002-02-07 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread jamesd
-- 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

RE: Cruel and unusual punishment

2002-02-14 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: CDR: A critique of "RE: Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway SentimentAbroad"

2002-02-20 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Re: [Reformatted] Eugene Leitl want to ban thoughtcrime,

2002-02-23 Thread jamesd
-- 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

Bernstein's NFS machine

2002-03-03 Thread jamesd
-- 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. >

Re: anti-flooding for mail2news gateways (used via mixmaster)

2002-03-09 Thread jamesd
-- > > 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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