December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

RE: Re: wealth and property rights
by jc105558＠spruce.hsu.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: MX%"dave(a)kachina.jetcafe.org" 22-NOV-1996 00:41:58.20 To: MX%"aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk" CC: MX%"freedom-knights(a)kachina.jetcafe.org",MX%"cypherpunks(a)toad.com" Subj: Re: wealth and property rights Return-Path: <cypherpunks-errors(a)toad.com> Received: from toad.com by spruce.HSU.EDU (MX V4.1 VAX) with SMTP; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 00:41:55 EST Received: (from majordom@localhost) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA04549 for cypherpunks-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:36:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from kachina.jetcafe.org (jetcafe.org [207.155.21.2]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA04544 for <cypherpunks(a)toad.com>; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:36:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([127.0.0.1]) by kachina.jetcafe.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02028; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:35:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <199611220235.SAA02028(a)kachina.jetcafe.org> X-Authentication-Warning: kachina.jetcafe.org: Host [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> CC: freedom-knights(a)kachina.jetcafe.org, cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Re: wealth and property rights Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:35:49 -0800 From: Dave Hayes <dave(a)kachina.jetcafe.org> Sender: owner-cypherpunks(a)toad.com Precedence: bulk > Btw, people of your mentality (communists/socialists) already make it > very difficult for me to accumulate, due to the exhorbitant tax rates > to support those who chose to blow their money as soon as they have > it I don't necessarily want to support "socialism" nor "capitalism". Both are extremes of a situation which does no one any good to exist. However, I would question the implication that "socialists" are responsible for the higher tax rates you currently experience. For example, I could make a strong case that you really have some clever "capitalists" who have learned how to express their "capitalism" quite effectively across the space of all people in a "country". 8-) ------ Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave(a)jetcafe.org Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.

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CHANGE: Visa-Free List - How to gain another nationality
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:22:07 -0600 Reply-To: sanwar(a)bclimser.demon.co.uk Sender: NEW-LIST - New List Announcements <NEW-LIST(a)LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU> From: Sanwar Ali <sanwar(a)bclimser.demon.co.uk> Organization: BCL Immigration Services Subject: CHANGE: Visa-Free List - How to gain another nationality To: NEW-LIST(a)LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU The VISA-FREE list has now had a change in address for all requests to the server. Instead of it ending with pobox.com after the @ sign it will be majordomo.pobox.com. Below are the new details for the list. VISA-FREE on majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com Discussion of how to gain another nationality for visa-free travel VISA-FREE an unmoderated discussion list covering the problems associated with international travel. In particular the issues discussed will cover acquiring a different nationality to overcome these problems. VISA-FREE is open to anyone wanting more information on visa-free travel, or with useful tips about gaining another nationality quickly. It is also open to specialists in nationality law. Documentation covering the relevant laws of countries that grant their citizenship quickly are archived at: http://www.bclimser.demon.co.uk/bclgovnt.htm Also information covering problems that people have experienced when using a new passport will be covered. There are archives of many of the digests at: http://www.bclimser.demon.co.uk/bclarchv.htm There will also be an e-journal called "THE VISA-FREE JOURNAL" sent to subscribers. Anyone wishing to write to the list-owner directly to discuss relevant issues and who does not wish this circulated to the list may do so. The address is s.riley(a)pobox.com. Please also state whether you would mind if your comments are put into the journal. The list-owner will respect any requests for privacy. *IMPORTANT: Anyone offering specialist assistance to VISA-FREE must provide the list owner with the relevant laws applicable to any citizenship programme offered, in the form of plain text to be archived and made available to the list. Also the legal basis of any programme must be fully verified with the list owner before permission is granted for circulation to the list. This is to safeguard the integrity of the list. Permission will not be unreasonably withheld from such people. At the same time the list -owner reserves the right to exclude those people who do not adhere to the purpose of the list, engage in unnecessary flaming or offer services of a dubious nature.* To subscribe to VISA-FREE, please send the message: SUBSCRIBE VISA-FREE (without your name!) or for the digest SUBSCRIBE VISA-FREE-DIGEST to majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com To send messages to the full list use visa-free(a)majordomo.pobox.com For messages to the list owner use s.riley(a)pobox.com Home Page: http://www.bclimser.demon.co.uk/bclvisfr.htm Owner: Sam Riley (AKA "Sanwar Ali") s.riley(a)pobox.com The list-owner's public key is: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAi/xbwUAAAEEALZolxs1l/DbYtEOIJV71EdsDepzR+DhLPPATIMwYiYgU9Yc PRIa6aUI4VKrtz23/3Nz4pFP45kCfKUehsJ3oqtXzGWqCqIpPVm4q4d6oV44Csn5 EykR3ujlzYaCopzsYRD9E/EIaxVztnIantfLeN0IwQL0k9XazPkj64yNL1lpAAUR tCRTYW0gUmlsZXkgPHNhbUBiY2xpbXNlci5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =nj7+ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ------- Use this information at your own risk. For more information and disclaimer send E-mail to LISTSERV(a)LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU with the command INFO NEW-LIST in the body. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/

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TIA Invites
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

A rep of the Telecommunications Industry Association telephoned to say that TIA has invited authority to investigate disclosure of TIA's TR45.3 to the unworthy.

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Re: Another Nutty Idea about SPAM
by zerkle＠cs.ucdavis.edu 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

(apologies if this appears twice...I'm easily confused) > From: ichudov(a)algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) > It is not illegal to make unsolicited phone calls. People must > take an _action_ (request to be removed from call lists) in order > not to be bothered. Yes. However, there is an organization that will send out such a list to a large number of big companies that do telemarketing. If any of those companies call any of the people on the list, they each send a bill for $100. If the bill isn't paid, they sue for the money. They always get the money. The telemarketers really hate these people, which means that they are doing their job. So, for the spammers, what I'm proposing is not that people *need* to take action to avoid getting spammed, but that they *can* take action if they want to get paid for spam. -Dan

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Re: wealth and property rights
by Clay Olbon II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 10:54 AM 11/27/96 -0800, Dave Kinchlea wrote: >On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Clay Olbon II wrote: >> >> This is provably bullshit. Look at the HUGE numbers of people in this >> country who make the economic decision to do nothing and go on welfare vs. >> going to work. Examine carefully the economic performance of the US vs the > >I don't know how much people get on welfare in your country but I >suspect that it is even less than in this country (Canada). Anyone who >truly believes that people make the `economic decision to do nothing and >go on welfare vs. going to work' has, in my opinion, no &^%* idea what >they are talking about. Just try to *live* on a welfare wage for a few >months to see how silly this thought is. While there may well be a few >`welfare-moms' (which is not necessarily a bad thing, taking care of >children is an investment for society), the vast majority of people on >welfare (at least here) would *much* rather get a decent job and work >for their money. There are, perhaps, a few people who would rather not >work for minimum wage (who find it impossible to feed their family on >that) but I suspect that those folks are few and far between. The average welfare benefit (including food stamps, medicaid, and all the other myriad programs) is $10/hr. Compare to a minimum wage of $5/hr. Offer most welfare recipients a minimum wage job and they will laugh in your face. (In fact, here in Michigan most employers are already paying several $$ above minimum wage, and often these jobs are unfilled). >> More bullshit. You don't know what anyones motives are. To ascribe your >> motivations to Bill Gates is unrealistic. > >But you claim to know the motives of those on welfare: pot->kettle->black I don't claim to know the motives. I am examining empirical evidence. As the welfare benefit increases, more go on welfare, as it decreases, less go on welfare. Someone is making economic decisions, consciously or unconsciously. Clay ******************************************************* Clay Olbon olbon(a)ix.netcom.com engineer, programmer, statistitian, etc. **********************************************tanstaafl

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CNET News Dispatch November 26th, 1996
by The CNET newsletter 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!
by Robin Whittle 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

William H. Geiger III <whgiii(a)amaranth.com> wrote: > Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!! > Dorthy Denning gave the most pro-government speech I have ever > heard. Is this clueless bitch on the government payroll?!! Spelling please! "Dorothy". She is a US academic. It may be emotionally satisfying to rail against (what for us may be evident as) the wickedness and stupidity of our opponents. I did not see the testimony, so I can't comment on it. However I believe that Dorothy Denning is motivated as much as many of us by the desire for a healthy society. The sharp difference in crypto policy can probably be explained by a differing understanding of: 1 - The likely behaviour of professional criminals, normal people, government officials and criminal government officials in the future with various forms of crypto system. 2 - Different levels of trust and fear regarding crime in general, big-time crime in particular and the use and abuse of law enforcement and other government powers. 3 - Probably other things too. I think that there are different personality types at work here. Adding to that is the tendency for governments to employ people who generally trust governments, their desire to perpetuate their former abilities to detect and deter crime and especially the problem of *groupthink*. Groupthink is the tendency for like minded individuals to reject uncomfortable notions, and so develop a seriously inadequate understanding of reality. JFK admitted they were stupid to commence the Bay of Pigs invasion. Clinton will probably say the same thing about crypto export controls. There is clear evidence that, being surrounded by like minded advisers, both presidents were the victims of groupthink. If we nod our heads to "Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!" then we too are succumbing to groupthink. See: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr/crypto/oecd_dr.htm for Dorothy Denning's response to my challenge for justifying costs of key-escrow/recovery against the likely benefit in crime reduction. I don't think it is a very strong response, and while many on this list will know more about her than I do, her response does not strike me as the work of someone who is unintelligent, uninterested in the future of society or a fascist. The net result of various misunderstandings (such as Clinton and Co. must have about the freely available nature of strong crypto) may well be stupidity on a grand scale. There are personality types who lean away from privacy and towards dangerous levels of government control. I think this can be amplified by the circumstances in which these people work - and groupthink is a big part of that. oecd_dr.htm is a recent draft of some OECD crypto work, with my comments, especially concerning the likely behaviour of criminals communicating both with other criminals and with non-criminals. It also has some information on an essay by Irving L. Janis called "Group Think" which I recommend to everyone who is involved in policy debates. - Robin . Robin Whittle . . http://www.ozemail.com.au/~firstpr firstpr(a)ozemail.com.au . . 11 Miller St. Heidelberg Heights 3081 Melbourne Australia . . Ph +61-3-9459-2889 Fax +61-3-9458-1736 . . Consumer advocacy in telecommunications, especially privacy . . . . First Principles - Research and expression - music, . . music industry, telecommunications . . human factors in technology adoption. . . . Real World Interfaces - Hardware and software, especially . . for music .

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Re: wealth and property rights
by Clay Olbon II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:08 PM 11/26/96 -0500, Stephen Boursy <boursy(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > I sincerely don't believe that. If you look at your above >examples, or Bill Gates below, much of their motivation is not >the accumulation of weath per se but rather power and performance. >I know I would do much the same job (not that I'm in the wealthy) >even if the salary were more or less--I enjoy it (I'm a programmer). >Same is true for education--much of the motivation is either >intrinsic or status oriented and has little or nothing to do with >marketablity. This is provably bullshit. Look at the HUGE numbers of people in this country who make the economic decision to do nothing and go on welfare vs. going to work. Examine carefully the economic performance of the US vs the Soviet Union - two countries with quite similar natural resources and population. To believe as you do belongs in the same category as believing in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. It requires complete ignorance of reality. >> In a capitalist society, I have to provide something that you want >> more than your wealth in order to obtain it. > > That's true--as with all labor--but it is a matter of scale. >Gates would do the same thing if you limited his income just >for the sake of power accumulation--he's got all the money >he could ever consume. That's not his real motive. More bullshit. You don't know what anyones motives are. To ascribe your motivations to Bill Gates is unrealistic. What is your defined limit on what people should earn? A thought experiment. The govt decides that the maximum anyone can earn in a lifetime is $10M. Bill Gates earns his $10M, he then decides that he doesn't feel like working for free, so he quits. Pretty soon, the people most effective at creating wealth in society will all "reach their limit" and quit. Then the economic growth rates in this country can approach those of the socialist societies that you seem to adore. Either that or the best and brightest will leave. >> 5. Government is the least efficient means of resolving the problem. The > > As inefficeint as it is it is really the only effective means. A >simple 100% inheritance tax would be very helpful as would limitations >on how much property a given individual (and a corporation is a virutal >individual) may own. See my above points. Implement this and prepare the for US to become a third world country. 100% inheritance taxes would probably be the largest incentive for people to leave (they leave now with ONLY a 50% inheritance tax). And who would get the money? Those who are producing nothing, giving them even greater incentives for producing nothing (heck, get welfare payments up around $50K and I would quit work - I could find lots of enjoyable and intellectually stimulating ways to keep myself busy!). > As to your other issue here--earnings and limitations on accumulation, >much would be equalized without inheritance. But yes--there would >still be accumulators--most would still produce regardless of >limits because as I said their motives are not simply income--power, >prestige, etc. all come in to play as well as the gratification that >comes with winning. Gates enjoys his cover on Time Mag. much more >than a few extra million a day. Bullshit. See above. > But the basic answer to your argument--from my standpoint--is that >some people are extremely intellegent, others very gifted in other >ways, others very dull witted, etc. Some possess artistic genius >that can pay off immediately, others have none that is valued dollar >wise by society. I sincerly don't believe one has the right to >live better than the other--that the rewards, if different, sould >be negligable. > > If I could make as much as I do know programming by working as >a clerk in a convenience store or whatever I would still choose to >do what I am doing. If you are in a different situation you're >in the wrong career. You are extremely idealistic. Try coming back to reality. Examine the "test cases" for the policies you advocate (and there are plenty of examples of socialist policies both in this country and others) - and realistically assess the consequences. If you do this, you will find that these policies are unworkable, and lead to lower - not higher standards of living for everyone. Clay ******************************************************* Clay Olbon olbon(a)ix.netcom.com engineer, programmer, statistitian, etc. **********************************************tanstaafl

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Re: [CRYPTO] Bank Cards, Interac, Bank Machines, etc
by ca3sal＠isis.sunderland.ac.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

There was someone jailed a couple of months ago in the UK for ATM fraud. He and his mates set up cameras watching people type in there PIN number and then manufatered dummy cards. I will try and dig out any more info. Ste

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No Subject
by nobody＠cypherpunks.ca 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Your login/password for SafePassage beta
by SafePassage Downloader 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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No Subject
by jaltarri＠lix.intercom.es 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Sound card as a random number source ??
by Pavel Korensky 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, when I read about hardware random number generators in this mailing list, I got one idea. Maybe it sounds crazy, but is it possible to use soundcard (SoundBlaster for example) as a source for really random numbers ? What if I connect the input line of the soundcard with some external source of noise, like FM receiver or Dolby Surround decoder (with built-in white noise generator) or tape recorder with blank (erased) tape. It is possible to sample the sound (noise) and use the sampled values as a random numbers ? And how much random is this source ? I tried to find some mentions about this method with altavista, but I didn't found anything. Bye PavelK -- **************************************************************************** * Pavel Korensky (pavelk(a)dator3.anet.cz) * * DATOR3 Ltd., Modranska 1895/17, 143 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic * * PGP key fingerprint: 00 65 5A B3 70 20 F1 54 D3 B3 E4 3E F8 A3 5E 7C * ****************************************************************************

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Re: TIA Invites
by droelke＠rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > > A rep of the Telecommunications Industry Association > telephoned to say that TIA has invited authority to > investigate disclosure of TIA's TR45.3 to the unworthy. > > Did I miss something... What is this disclosure of TR45.3 about? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Oelke Alcatel Network Systems droelke(a)aud.alcatel.com Richardson, TX

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Re: Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!
by nobody＠huge.cajones.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)amaranth.com> writes: >I don't know if anyone watched the House Subcomitty on Computers & >Technology today on C-Span. No, we watched 'Dorothy does Georgetown" on C-Spam. >Phil Zimmerman, Dorthy Denning, William Reinsch & others were disscussing >computer security. > >Dorthy Denning gave the most pro-government speech I have ever heard. Is >this clueless bitch on the government payroll?!! Yes. >William Reinsch is a lying bastard. Fucking politions!! Fucking >goverment!! They all deserve a long rope!! Start with Socks the queer cat. >Phil Zimmerman was quite good at attacking the government policies. > ><sigh> We are truly a country of fools to have put these jackbooted >facisit bastards back into office. "Dorothy Denning" is a man in drag. "She" has a bigger dick that "her" boyfriend John Gilmore, the cocksucker faggot from EFF. >----------------------------------------------------------- >"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii(a)amaranth.com> >----------------------------------------------------------- Just say GAK to chicks with dicks! diGriz

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Re: Today's hearing (Re: Dorthy Denning is a boot-licking fasicist!!!)
by snow 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> at 06:34 AM, snow <snow(a)smoke.suba.com> said: > > Well, it's been said before, you are know by the company you keep. > <sigh> well after my survivalist training & military training in the '80's > I thought I was well prepaired for those dam Ruskies. Seems the way things > are going I am going to need them for those dam Americans. Who Knew Some people kinda suspected it would happen. I mean, when I was in the military, and I looked at the goons I was serving with, I realized what the enemy was. Petro, Christopher C. petro(a)suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow(a)smoke.suba.com

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DSP's & crypto
by Tim Scanlon 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

About a year or 2 ago I read some stuff in sci.crypt about some people doing encryption stuff, I belive with DES, using DSP chips, I am interested in finding the folks who were working on it, or related code. If anyone out there has that sort of info I would appreciate some pointers in their direction. Thanks, Tim Scanlon

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NIST seeks DES replacement.
by Peter Trei 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

See: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1111/des.htm Federal Computer Week, Nov 11, 1996. "DES set for overhaul." by HEATHER HARRELD The content is kind of thin, but it amounts to a statement that NIST is preparing a Federal Register request for a successor to DES. Most the article concerns the termendous hassle replacing DES will be for government agencies (FCW is a trade rag for people working with computers in the Federal and State sectors - I used to get it when I was at MITRE.) There's a truely clueless comment at the end, where Mike Schwartz of "Prime Factors Inc., an Oregon-based security firm" is quoted as saying "...DES shows no signs of weakening." ----------------------------- While 3DES-EDE is the obvious replacement, it would be far from an easy switch, since there are a huge number of fielded devices for handling the 64 bit single DES keys. I wonder how good a drop-in replacement could be made if the goal was to NOT have to replace the key handling infrastructure - just replace a single software module or chip. If we use the bits currently devoted to parity in DES keys for actual key data, we gain 8 bits, or a factor of x256 in the keyspace. If we further complicate the key schedule setup, so it's much slower than DES in both hardware and software (lots of rotates, multiplies, state, etc), we can make life a lot more difficult for brute force attacks. Maybe some version of Blowfish, using the same key twice - I have not studied Blowfish, so I don't know if this introduces an obvious weakness. Happy Thanksgiving! Peter Trei trei(a)process.com Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei(a)process.com

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Re: Star Trek: First Contact
by drose＠AZStarNet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, The Deviant <deviant(a)pooh-corner.com> wrote: > >On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote: > >> Mark Allyn 206-860-9454 <allyn(a)allyn.com> writes: >> >> > Are any of the characters in the new Star Trek gay? >> >> The bold guy who plays Captain Picard is very gay in real life. >> (He probably hated all those love episodes with women :-) >> > >Patrick Stewart is married, isn't he? So was Rock Hudson. Let's not forget that in the '50s, Liberace sued (successfully! - and collected significant monetary damages!) "Confidential" magazine for implying that he was homosexual. Not that it makes any difference at all.

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PBS Re-runs...
by Alan Olsen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

PBS locally was rerunning an episode of "Life on the Internet" last night. It was the one about PGP and Phil Zimerman. It was pretty old (by net standards). Phil had just gotten his case dropped. (And they mentioned the FBI's "Search for the Unibomber" page. What I found frightening about the whole thing was Jim Kalstrom's comments during the whole thing. He brought up the Four Horsemen, as well as their brothers, cousins, sisters, and the contents of a large family horseman reunion. He kept mentioning as to how we had to be able to tap CRIMINALS. What he never mentioned is who those suspected criminals are. ("We have met the enemy and they is us!") Personally I found the argument on the government side pretty weak. (My wife's comment was that they got lazy using all these newfangled toys and did not want to have to get back to doing real police work and real investigations.) Kalstrom made it pretty clear by his own words that he wanted to "catch the bad guys" and he did not care what rights he trod on doing it. Phil came off real well on the program. The one thing that failed to mention is the amount of foreign development that has gone into PGP. (As well as the availability of it at sites around the world.) --- | "Remember: You can't have BSDM without BSD." | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano(a)teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan(a)ctrl-alt-del.com|

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PO-2 Brain wave meters.
by Napalm 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Has NE1 heard of these things? Supposedly you plug it into your printer port and it shows you your brain waves so you can try to reach "alpha" waves or something. I think they cost around $500. If it`s for real you could do some neat things with it; how bout your computer waking up when you wake up... that terminator 2 plot comes closer every day.... NEway if anybody knows anything about it let`s have it. L8R -Napalm SFNF9UY(a)SCFN.THPL.LIB.FL.US

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IQ and age
by Phillip M. Hallam-Baker 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Contrary to popular armchair psychology, there is no significant evidence >that IQ and age are inversely related. In general, however, the older we >get, the less we use our brain, and it becomes like a muscle that we no >longer use. Contrary to popular belief there is no sound evidence for believing many of the claims made for IQ tests. IQ measures ones ability to do IQ tests and little else. They were originally invented as a means of measuring the response of mentally defective patients so that their progress under different treatment regimes could be compared. There is no evidence to support the many claims made that IQ measures "innate" intelligence. If you practice IQ tests your score will increase. When I was 10 I used to spend each Friday afternoon practicing IQ tests for the entry examination to the upper school. My "IQ" increased by 30 points over that time, an most of the people in the class managed to improve their score by at least 10. >The point: Yes, you can improve your brain, and you can take proactive >steps to increase your IQ. Absolutely, it may not be the best idea if you want to be able to fit in socially however. You will then have to leave in a world where everyone you meet has a lower IQ. Phill

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Re: wealth and property rights
by Clay Olbon II 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 02:17 PM 11/27/96 -0500, Jim Wise wrote: >Actually, at the risk of interrupting your little diatribe, the average >welfare recipient is on the dole for under 4 months. While we're on the >subject, I may as well point out that the average welfare recipiant is also >white, lives in a lower-middle class suburban neighborhood, and has two or >fewer children, but you'd never know it from watching the pols... Just because lots of white folks get it for a short time it must be OK then ;-) Welfare (and the so-called safety net) hurt far more people than it helps. The poverty rate in this country is unchanged after 30 years of transfer payments totalling over a trillion dollars. The worst living conditions in the country are in areas of subsidized housing. It ought to start clicking with someone soon that the only people the current system really helps are in Washington DC. I don't have a solution, but I can face the reality that what we currently have doesn't work. By extension, I believe that most changes offered (more $$, minor tweaks to the system), will offer similarly poor results. > >At any rate, as I mentioned in my last post, you and I are paying three times >as much to corporate welfare as to personal welfare... > >[Source: Michael Moore _Downsize_This_, NY Crown Books, 1996] Micheal Moore is far down on my list of reputable authors. His point is blatantly untrue, as it equates direct transfer payments (welfare) to tax breaks (in the same light, your mortgage and dependant deductions should count as transfer payments to individuals). Not that I am for corporate welfare. Personally, I am for elimination of corporate income tax entirely - who do you think really pays it? Hint - it is you and me in higher prices for goods and lower return on investments. As such, it is the worst kind of tax, an invisible one. >> See my above points. Implement this and prepare the for US to become a >> third world country. 100% inheritance taxes would probably be the largest >> incentive for people to leave (they leave now with ONLY a 50% inheritance > >Actually, the US has one of the lowest tax rates in the world, and far >less of your tax money goes to welfare (or foreign aid, or disaster relief, >etc.) than in any other industrialized nation... BINGO! You win the prize. We also have lower unemployment, higher GDP growth and more economic stability than any of the other large industrialized counties. You think there might be a correlation there? >Yes, your taxes do go to those who are producing nothing, namely a bunch of >CEOs and wealthy shareholders This is just silly. If you run a business you are employing lots of folks, and you are delivering a product or service. This is producing. If you are a shareholder, you are risking your capital to support a business, hoping that business will grow, producing more jobs, etc. Besides, because of the growth of 401K plans, the majority of Americans now fall into the shareholder category. >> them even greater incentives for producing nothing (heck, get welfare >> payments up around $50K and I would quit work - I could find lots of >> enjoyable and intellectually stimulating ways to keep myself busy!). > >Or welfare payments of up to $500 million at a shot, if you happen to be GE, or >General Motors... As I said, I don't agree with corporate welfare. Of course, GM produces far more jobs than the average welfare recipient. >The only examples of large-scale socialism we have are in extremely statist >environemnts. Statism is brutal and innefficient no matter what economic >system it pays lip service to. Agreed. But how do you redistribute wealth without a statist society? The only reason I pay taxes is because I will go to jail if I don't. Clay ******************************************************* Clay Olbon olbon(a)ix.netcom.com engineer, programmer, statistitian, etc. **********************************************tanstaafl

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desecration
by captain.sarcastic 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.christiangallery.com/digest.html

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Re: The Difference Between The Right And Left
by Benjamin Grosman 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear Sir, [snip generalised rambling] > The left wing is a rather motly collection including many > anarchists, communists and nazis, yet many of the same > types are decidedly right wing. > > A historical anecdote would be the Bucharin-Rykov wing of > the Bolshevik party in the late twenties. They were right > wing while Stalin was left wing. Yet, Bucharin would be > considered quite radical for today's bean counting > politics. Even easier, take the Nazi Party. There name points towards the left wing of the political spectrum, and yet their policies were left wing only for the higher echelon, which makes them right wing, as their policies weren't for the good of the people overall. Their decided tyranny of many spectrums of the population was also deliberately right wing. And yet the regime was not tyrannical according to the mould developed by Stalin. It was popular: it was voted in, and it was supported by the majority of the people throughout it's rule. I think you have some decent points. But they are off topic in this list, and also highly generalised. Such a dissentation is worthy of a thesis, not a mere hundred or so words. Yours Sincerely, Benjamin Grosman > This is, of course, confusing to y'all because your all a > bunch of stupid college kids. > >-- >Cheers! > > ------------------------------------------------------------- bgrosman(a)healey.com.au -- http://www.healey.com.au/~bgrosman/ PGP Encrypted Mail Preferred -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzKNX9oAAAEEAOIx4HkRU4vckgguzERhVCxgy5psmngHUoW10Xl8kBkjnuc/ ACysH1K98UXlGfet9zjn/XN4RMnGq64EHXvJu56H7OHhwhoerTpVIW5MUYt+QExk KKnRNrdq8WVGoaMywSM4qKbaJr8aNMBWkldUKR4NElvAjIEEO9z0msNPp33RAAUR tClCZW5qYW1pbiBHcm9zbWFuIDxiZ3Jvc21hbkBoZWFsZXkuY29tLmF1PokAlQMF EDKNX9vc9JrDT6d90QEBxVYEAL5nw1NiyaPpG8R2x7lNcqOcavj/cCmDYT8swT02 Z0AO0C7PGpgp9V38Yyki0FB3yaiJhIQ3Kw6xCtuI8f1F4Vfql/nZebzQERl8kTa4 sI/4xSKRT/Riw/wSGupagU1F1wYIPlXOCdUilIfLzVf4IOsxKjJMdm7aKladSxkV N7Yg =Yapx -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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