December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Judges with kiddy porn good, Xerox engineers bad
by Dirk Boxcuttah 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

Controversy Grows Over Judge Indicted For Possessing Porn http://www.channel2000.com/news/stories/news-112627220011213-151231.html Orange County Judge Gets Signed Petitions To Run For Re-Election LOS ANGELES -- Controversy is growing over an Orange County judge indicted for possessing child pornography. Despite the indictment, Superior Court Judge Ronald Kline is running for re-election after getting signed petitions from some fellow Orange County judges, according to a CBS2 report. Some of the judges pleaded ignorance, while others said that Kline is innocent until proven guilty. In response to the petitions, attorney Gayle Sandoval has launched a write-in campaign to defeat Kline in the election. Contrast to http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48946,00.html et seq.

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The Dallas Morning News: Texas/Southwest - FBI: Uncorroborated threat received against Texas schools
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

>>Heads up folks!!!! http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/ap/stories/AP_STATE_0069.html -- Heads up agent gordon! KILLTHE PRESIDENT IN AUSTIN.Death to Amerikkka.(just joshin)

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: CNN.com - India on alert after parliament shootout - December 13, 2001
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

Earlier this year a state parliarment was burned to the ground.Unfortunately no one inside.Then before that was the masterful tehelka sting.Thanks for posting this jimbo.We can always learn something new.Dani wath!

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Re: CNN.com+mark on Remailers
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

Marcel>>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 "protected by the first ammendment" and so on, instead of shooting the criminals.<< Mason wrote a bit of it yet wouldn't sign and washington never spoke to him again.A black thing? The state has created an escalator of repression that's obvious.Shooting the criminals seems more and more likely...AP style. >>And most people in my country (myself included) have no idea what OUR constitution says - it doesn't matter anyway. Ditto...au >>1-year conscripts.) Hells bells are you from korea? You pay to kill our crims and we'll pay for yours. Strangers on a train.

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Con-Sim Suggested Reading
by Jim Choate 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

http://www.ssz.com/consim/books.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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FRA - Naval Affairs December 1996
by Jim Choate 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

http://www.fra.org/navalaffairs/9612/na9612j.html -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind. Bumper Sticker The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Who Am I Anyway?
by Tim May 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 06:38 PM, Duncan Frissell wrote: > At 05:10 PM 12/13/01 -0600, Jim Choate wrote: >> Which is beside your point. Your statement was that the government >> didn't >> do ANY identification for ANY of the soldiers in WWII. Patently wrong. >> Quit trying to change the rules in the middle of the game. > > > >> AFTER the war started, not before. When the initial draft was executed >> it >> was for 21-25 year old males only. They were required to register so >> that >> the government knew who was getting drafted. That qualifies as >> 'identification' and is proof contrary to your assertion. > > There's a difference between registering for the Draft or signing > enlistment papers and proving your identity. I contend that proof of > identity was not required for US military service in WWII. I'll > investigate further and see what I can come up with about the > enlistment process. > Seems to me there are more interesting things to spend time on than refuting Choate. Item: There are huge numbers of reported cases (no, I don't have URLs, but I have heard testimonials directly, for example) of guys who lied about their ages to enlist. (Some later rose high in the ranks...). This is hard to do if a birth certificate is "required." I take this as strong evidence that birth certificates were not universally required, probably not even _usually_ required. Item: Many hobos, drifters, and the like enlisted. Not a lot of them were in contact with their birth towns, or even knew where there birth towns were. I doubt many of them ever managed to get a copy of their birth certificates. Item: Assumed names were, and still are to some extent, common in America. I doubt many able-bodied men were turned down for military service just because they'd changed their name one or more times. Of course, in Choate Prime, the reality sometimes parallel to our own, but usually not, men routinely avoided the draft by the simple stratagem of not remembering where their mothers said they were born, thus making getting a birth certificate impossible. "Sorry, I have no idea where I was born. Momma says we moved around a lot. So I can't get a birth certificate. Be seein' ya!" --Tim May "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." --John Stuart Mill

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Activist, Inc. (ws Re: Proffr Punished for Witty Remark),
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

>>Supplied by R A Hettinger...> http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001590 > Good stuff,see also...http://www.infoshop.org/octo/astroturf.html How to tell grassroots from astroturf.

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: Re: How do you sleep?
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

>>I'll know I'll regret responding to the mattdproffraptroll, I hope not,it took long enough to lever you out from under your bridge.Sorry it took the flamethrower. >>but briefly: I am not affiliated in any way with the Cato Institute. I don't believe I've ever written anything for them; I am not an adjunct scholar/policy analyst for them; I've been in their building just once in the last five months or so. Most importantly, they say things with which I do not agree.<< You plugged that appearance here,thats my beef with you declan.I think you should be blasted on this list for aligning in any way shape or form to a twisted conservative mob that manufacture consent for corporate polluters.We are cypher-PUNKS,not cypher shills.Its crypto-ANARCHY,not crypto-libertarianism. >>That said, they are a worthy, respectable, valuable, and valued think tank, and I always enjoy reading what they write.<< They are worthless,low, liars for money,its enjoyable tracing their profoundly corrupt sources of finance.If you enjoy their literature theres something seriously wrong with you,declan,I thought you were an intelligent person.How DO you sleep? >>As for a "damming exposure," it's just another screed. Yawn<< You are getting sleepy? WAKE UP AND SMELL WHAT YOUR SHOVELLING,SPORT! I wrote several posts to this list that you ducked liked a coward then when I shout to get your attention,this is the thanks I get.FUCK DECLAN,Im just telling you these things so you don't keep kidding yourself. WAKE UP! You are either with us or with them. Your fellow PUNK for ANARCHY,mattd.

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Slashdot | Single-Photon LED: Key To Uncrackable Encryption?
by mattd 14 Dec '01

14 Dec '01

>>...is supposedly uncrackable encryption, due to the law of indeterminacy.<< Im a big booster for uncrackable encryption.Thats why Im confident of crypto-anarchy sooner rather than later. Singh is a good popularizer whose TV series was on here earlier this year. UE could be an infinitely receding mirage as indicated by bill honigs theory back at quantum encryption hazard post. The standard model is definitely in play at the moment.(possible socialist plot by flying saucer freaks) The standard model is totally unable to explain mass without the higgs boson.Theres a hitch finding this 'god' particle according to new scientist,dec 8.01.Im unclear as to the difference between "ether" (honig) and a 'higgs field'(NS article) maybe jamesd could help us out here? "Whoever puts their hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant.I declare them my enemy." PJ Proudon.

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