December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 09:45:35 -0500 (EST) > From: Jon Galt <jongalt(a)pinn.net> > Subject: Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism > being committed. (Of course there is another definition of crime.) How about an act which harms a person or their property without their prior permission? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage(a)ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|

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Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism (fwd)
by Jim Burnes 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 22:19:18 -0600 From: TruthMonger <tm(a)dev.null> Reply-To: 6ualdv8(a)sk.sympatico.ca To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes(a)ssds.com> Subject: Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism Jim Burnes wrote: > (ahem...now back to your regularly scheduled silliness) Jim, Did you get enough drugs to share with *everybody*? Actually I'm fresh out. I think I'll go back to the coffee pot and brew some more... ;-)

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Re: Further costs of war
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Hettinga wrote: >Of course, all the pseudoconstitutionalist claptrap about the 16th >being unconstitutional is, of course, that. The constitution's what >the Supreme Court says it is, unfortunately. Personally, I do not believe in the infallibility of the Supreme Court. The people on the Court are just people. They can make mistakes. They can have ulterior motives. They can be corrupt. The Constitution is understood by many people to be something like a charter in which the people of the United States granted the government certain powers, reserving all others to themselves. The Constitution has meaning. The Supreme Court may not amend this meaning, it may only interpret it. When the Court makes a decision which is obviously not consistent with the meaning of the Constitution it is reasonable to say that the Court is in error. In an extreme situation many people would say that it is reasonable for the people of the United States to revoke the Charter granted to this government. Consider this scenario: Chief Justice Rehnquist appears in Court wearing a tutu. He declares that the Court has just decided that in emergency situations it is proper and Constitutional for the Supreme Court to take control of the government to protect democracy. Would it be reasonable to say that the Constitution had changed or would it be reasonable to put the Chief Justice in the loony bin? Let's take an example from history. The United States decides to enter World War I. People who are opposed to this war and to the draft make speeches opposing both policies. A law is passed forbidding this activity. The Chief Justice declares that speech may be controlled if it is akin to "yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded movie house." Following this logic, the government jails people who speak against the War and the draft. One of these people, Eugene Debs, campaigns from jail for the Presidency and gets about a million votes. Would it be proper to conclude that speaking against the War may be punished Constitutionally or that the Court had failed to carry out its duties? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHm/SZaWtjSmRH/5AQEifgf/U1n6bFaEy66IyuezGhSG0AbDPCKBfwWd iMuqhy5ZoHqJR/v0RHw2Wupp3ACuYe/CgUrrftN0bzr8WaWThMr8H2kxsnxNoHX4 0cowJfnRxnJkSNoFKYa+t3y/otjYW+YRWBfoyKktvwiK30r7H2jisKPAoOCir8NP W5P10QhzKAvCp/16sCEpqYbzbXDnaiY9D55E6Ew7mLEECeGm+raATUvayksA+BT/ RNhZXQTYMYk7AfeqKxp7fuikQegTRbwC8d4G0jT6kduFOWvI4YaQIKam+eR8Dec9 jzDO5ckcPLaB80p6jQEc0nob4ltBz4mbDqqnc2YBfsAvTSKBIGKKCQ== =IzrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Further costs of war
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Hettinga wrote: >Of course, all the pseudoconstitutionalist claptrap about the 16th >being unconstitutional is, of course, that. The constitution's what >the Supreme Court says it is, unfortunately. Personally, I do not believe in the infallibility of the Supreme Court. The people on the Court are just people. They can make mistakes. They can have ulterior motives. They can be corrupt. The Constitution is understood by many people to be something like a charter in which the people of the United States granted the government certain powers, reserving all others to themselves. The Constitution has meaning. The Supreme Court may not amend this meaning, it may only interpret it. When the Court makes a decision which is obviously not consistent with the meaning of the Constitution it is reasonable to say that the Court is in error. In an extreme situation many people would say that it is reasonable for the people of the United States to revoke the Charter granted to this government. Consider this scenario: Chief Justice Rehnquist appears in Court wearing a tutu. He declares that the Court has just decided that in emergency situations it is proper and Constitutional for the Supreme Court to take control of the government to protect democracy. Would it be reasonable to say that the Constitution had changed or would it be reasonable to put the Chief Justice in the loony bin? Let's take an example from history. The United States decides to enter World War I. People who are opposed to this war and to the draft make speeches opposing both policies. A law is passed forbidding this activity. The Chief Justice declares that speech may be controlled if it is akin to "yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded movie house." Following this logic, the government jails people who speak against the War and the draft. One of these people, Eugene Debs, campaigns from jail for the Presidency and gets about a million votes. Would it be proper to conclude that speaking against the War may be punished Constitutionally or that the Court had failed to carry out its duties? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHm/SZaWtjSmRH/5AQEifgf/U1n6bFaEy66IyuezGhSG0AbDPCKBfwWd iMuqhy5ZoHqJR/v0RHw2Wupp3ACuYe/CgUrrftN0bzr8WaWThMr8H2kxsnxNoHX4 0cowJfnRxnJkSNoFKYa+t3y/otjYW+YRWBfoyKktvwiK30r7H2jisKPAoOCir8NP W5P10QhzKAvCp/16sCEpqYbzbXDnaiY9D55E6Ew7mLEECeGm+raATUvayksA+BT/ RNhZXQTYMYk7AfeqKxp7fuikQegTRbwC8d4G0jT6kduFOWvI4YaQIKam+eR8Dec9 jzDO5ckcPLaB80p6jQEc0nob4ltBz4mbDqqnc2YBfsAvTSKBIGKKCQ== =IzrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Free speech and jlist groups press conf on ratings (12/1)
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

** MEDIA ADVISORY ** Press Conference on Internet Ratings and Filtering WHO: Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA) WHAT: Press conference announcing the formation of IFEA, a coalition of organizations devoted to the continuation of the Internet as a forum for open expression and to identify new threats to free expression and First Amendment values on the Internet, whether legal or technological. WHEN: Monday, December 1, 12:30 p.m. WHERE: First Amendment Lounge National Press Club 14th & F Streets, N.W. Washington, DC WHY: To address the free speech issues raised by proposals to rate and filter "objectionable" content on the Internet. These proposals will be featured prominently at the White House-endorsed "Internet Online Summit" that opens on December 2. Representatives of the following IFEA member organizations will be available for comment: American Civil Liberties Union American Society of Newspaper Editors Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Privacy Information Center Feminists for Free Expression Institute for Global Communications National Campaign for Freedom of Expression National Coalition Against Censorship Society of Professional Journalists CONTACT: David Sobel, EPIC: 202-544-9240 David Greene, NCFE: 202-393-2787 Emily Whitfield, ACLU: 212-549-2566 ..

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Free Crime! (Take One...) / Re: Jim Bell's Sentencing Delayed
by bureau42 Anonymous Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Again Ray Arachelian wrote: > > Of course, it would be difficult to wash away all the FUD the government > > has disseminated about the Bell case by now. > Not so difficult. Remember that Bell stink-bombed those offices > allegedly. This could easily be seen as a teenage-mentality prank. > Play that part up, and the ludicrousness of everything else he was > "schemeing", and it makes the IRS look very very bad. They are pushing > the bad ass terrorist view of him. One way of looking at it is that a greater crime than he committed has already been 'paid for'. Whatever they add to his sentence will serve to increase the value of the 'gift certificate' Bell is buying for some lucky CypherPunk for Christmas. Since much of the authority of society revolves around guilt/shame, then a crime already paid for allows us to committ it without guilt. e.g. - Tim McVeigh I am tired of the whiners who cry out for the public hanging of every person deemed guilty by the justice system of 12 million jurors whipped into an emotional frenzy by the press and the government spin doctors, and who then bitch and moan when some servant of the Tao, such as Terrible Timmy, exercises the other side of the two-edged sword. Since McVeigh was a dead-duck anyway, it is a shame that he didn't just stand up in front of the jury with a history book and a calculator, do some figuring, and say, "By my calculations, not only is my crime already paid for, but 'we the people' still have plenty of 'credit' left on the account." ~~~ YouCanBetYourSweetAssIAmSending*This*PostAnonymouslyMonger

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Fear & Gloating in Tennessee
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From CNN(AP): Web posted at: 10:47 a.m. EST (1547 GMT) FRANKLIN, Tennessee (AP) -- Three books by photographers Jock Sturges and David Hamilton have received some critical praise, but a Tennessee county grand jury claims they may violate state obscenity laws. "The Age of Innocence" by Hamilton and "The Last Day of Summer" and "Radiant Identities" by Sturges were cited in the indictment against Barnes & Noble's Brentwood store. The obscenity charges focus on photographs of nude children in the books. I certainly hope that the prosecutor, judge and jury didn't look at those pictures. Probably turn them all into pedophiles, eh? Barnes & Noble was served with a summons to appear in Williamson County Criminal Court on December 1. Jerome Melson, an attorney for the Tennessee Press Association, said interpretations of what is obscene vary widely and he believes the grand jury is not looking to put anyone in jail. "They're probably just looking for a fine... to get the bookstore to change its manner," he said. "In other words, change your shelves." Oh! Voluntary/Mandatory under threat of imprisonment... Is it time for some new NewSpeak? Volundated -- Voluntary/Mandated Volundatory -- Voluntary/Mandatory Volutelse -- Voluntary/Or else! Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Sure it can. I just did it... TruthMonger

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by goddesshera＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Put it where the SUN don't shine...
by TruthMonger 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

The Microsoft spoofers, who work for Palladium Interactive software, didn't let the feel-good fest rain on their parade. They said their tiny Larkspur, Calif. company drew lots of interest in their parody of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 98 operating program, which goes by a name that can't be mentioned here because of its sexual connotations. The program includes games such as Billagotchi, an on-screen "cyber pet" that people need to feed money and tend to his needs or else he throws a tantrum. For example, the parody includes an icon for "MS Exploiter" that links to a Palladium Web site. And in a skit based on Star Trek, cartoon characters from the Star Ship Explorer blow up the SS Netscape. "The party line is if you don't have a booth, you can't hand out literature," said Rebecca Murphy, director of product marketing for the firm. "We're just trying to have some fun."

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Update On Jim Bell
by John Young 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Just a bit of new info about recent court actions, which is documented at: http://jya.com/jimbell-dock4.htm In short, on November 17 Jim's attorney (D') and the prosecutor (P') submitted Sentencing Memoranda to the Court. On November 21 (the previously scheduled sentencing date), D' presented a Supplement to Sentencing Memo. Both of D's memos were Filed Under Seal, but not the P's. On November 21 the Court acks receipt of the sentencing memoranda and a Pre-Sentencing Report (PSR) from the Probation Officer (PO). There was argument. The Court will present counsel with additional questions on sentencing. The sentencing is postponed (continued) until December 12. Jim, jail (D' remanded). Leg. wiz. w'll now expl. ths is just jive just. in No. 1 Amer.

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http:--www.cnn.com-US-9711-24-cyberhate.web.site.ap-
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

CNN logo Navigation Infoseek/Big Yellow Pathfinder/Warner Bros Barnes and Noble Main banner Click here to see the Q phone from QUALCOMM, the highest evolution of digital. rule CIVIL RIGHTS WEB SITE TO FIGHT CYBERHATE CivilRights.org November 24, 1997 Web posted at: 6:01 p.m. EST (2301 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Responding to President Clinton's call to fight hate crime, the nation's largest civil rights coalition and a regional Bell telephone company have created a Web site designed to combat Internet hate speech. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights said Monday the site -- www.civilrights.org -- was developed and will be maintained for two years with a $100,000 contribution from Bell Atlantic. Clinton issued a call two weeks ago at a White House Conference on Hate Crimes to find ways to fight the problem. "You are providing an antidote to cyberhate," he told the civil rights coalition in a letter read by Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater at a news conference on Monday. Wade Henderson, LCCR executive director, said the idea to create a Web site was triggered by a proliferation of Internet hate speech by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and White Aryan Resistance. Bell Atlantic chairman Ray Smith cited a study by the Anti-Defamation League showing the number of hate sites on the Internet has doubled to 250 in the past year. He called the new site "an antidote for poison." The idea is to "counter the frightening espousal of hatred and violence against Americans because of their race, gender, religious or sexual orientation," he said. Henderson said hate groups have become more sophisticated in communicating their doctrines and recruiting. "Instead of the street, they recruit on the net," he explained. There is also concern for the First Amendment protection of free speech, Henderson said. "This Web site will respond to hate with information and competing ideas without seeking to restrict Internet speech." In addition to providing information on hate crimes around the country, the site will explain various strategies to address those crimes and offer materials for young people, parents and teachers to encourage diversity. Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. rule Related stories: * AllPolitics: Clinton denounces Denver's racial violence - November 22, 1997 * Denver seeks answers in apparent wave of hate crime - November 21, 1997 * Hate case raises Internet free speech issues - November 9, 1997 Related sites: Note: Pages will open in a new browser window * CivilRights.org - Leadership Conference on Civil Rights * Bell Atlantic * American Communication Association WWW Archives + Freedom of Speech + Human Rights Issues External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive. _________________________________________________________________ Infoseek search ____________________ ____ ____ _________________________________________________________________ rule Message Boards Sound off on our message boards You said it... [INLINE] Click here to see the Q phone from QUALCOMM, the highest evolution of digital. rule To the top © 1997 Cable News Network, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you.

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Re: Further costs of war
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Fabrice Planchon wrote: >Once again, if 1812 the [British] invasion [of the United States] actually occured,... They burned the White House to the ground. Does that count? ;-) Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHnAi5aWtjSmRH/5AQENvAf+MfWfYAmSUYz5jT6W81H07uWtvAAeC7YV rEIo+CLWkxnFBmpBEmuw0bmJEO7SPvgdL7+YrdACrNFuRvXyg6PvfdOOfET0XjC2 FC6atL8fO2TUHDVz47TV57vvBcThJogcUKxVloLgaQTxhoTFlY/VW70T9kvS3VWl uUPrj/d5cDAojcRLVDwqTBPcpeWOp2RloICqbfD5LGBXKVflcMtMLiXGGyR0Cgd3 O8KfYpt+BoiO/IZHqokgVWxN+s+Y9HhEXTWLE8jgxfhGlTLqJUqgR7JWM5Mlh5wG S+qeBKMowlkvi42CtpBFQ/8MtmEZnaiCQof4IcUgOfTFYnfjcJfmRA== =P7qe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Seeing Both Sides
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Hettinga wrote: >Concord is clearly proof that Britain didn't understand that they >couldn't control America anymore and acted on that misinformation. It >was *their* problem, as the revolution bore out. Britain would probably have been capable of controlling America had France not intervened. France provided desperately needed powder and money to the revolutionaries. During the siege of Boston it was seriously proposed that bow and arrows be employed due to powder shortages. Spears were actually prepared for use! France also provided officers to staff the poorly trained and organized American armies, troops, and even a navy. The final victory at Yorktown was largely a French operation, for example. Here is Richard N. Rosenfeld's take on it from "American Aurora": Page 418: "There are approximately 32,000 French soldiers and sailors at Yorktown, four to six times the number of George Washington's army, and more than twice, if not three times, the number of all Americans at Yorktown, including militia. Indeed, there are many more French soldiers on the ground than American Continentals. The entire blockading force at sea is French." Page 419: "Of French and American forces which encircle Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, the naval part of this circle consists strictly of French warships (more than thirty) and sailors (nineteen thousand!). America has no warships in this naval blockade." Page 419: "Orchestrating the siege at Yorktown is strictly a matter for the French. Washington has no experience in siege warfare. The French perfected the art. Rochambeau has taken part in fourteen sieges! General Lebigne, the Chevalier Du Portail, and other French officers and engineers take charge of siege operations." Page 420: "Two French soldiers die for each American death at Yorktown. Two French soldiers are wounded for each American wound at Yorktown. French casualties exceed 250." Page 421: "British General Charles O'Hara, acting on behalf of General Charles Cornwallis (who has pleaded illness), attempts to surrender Cornwallis' (sic) sword to French Commander in Chief General the Comte de Rochambeau, but Rochambeau magnanimously refuses to accept the surrender weapon and directs the British general to George Washington." Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHnGVJaWtjSmRH/5AQH3hgf+LcvSRiufKxypdjVEXn5vbMa1Ob2IUfyY qSklLDEdYlRP2iOtl1dsLT/XIXaabo6F8lkAVqBXnXffiLd5ewzWs51jI9HEeoMa gtlfgUS49fxBeLeaojen1VVLvr4zkVWjATmspNk1SRu2l6Arc/3KgwPeYgX0A9+V 5fqguVO/frV4BH6wqnVyuKosO2DXoP8njVfjwuTybwO1yO1BQ4+EtgW1m6jkXIwE RjSZsGS7+KK2Ywu9eGWdC2Y0sOPG6k9zy/4zmm+xlttocYx75ixwCwYNWJihNfPe /uT8emxWak0aPAAynug6ZGPU3CXdRZ3JsWKB6a2s3kVgGiIQ2oLxrg== =ZZoe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Iraq and computers
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Michael Wilson wrote that Reuters wrote: >WASHINGTON (November 23, 1997 02:35 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - >To conceal its deadliest arms from U.N. weapons inspectors, Iraq has >increasingly turned to U.S.-made computers sold in Baghdad since the >end of the 1991 Gulf War in violation of international sanctions, the >Los Angeles Times reported in its Sunday editions. > >Quoting U.S. officials and U.N. diplomats, the newspaper said that >Iraqi scientists and defense officials are using Western-made >computers to transfer data from bulky papers to small disks that can >be easily dispersed, making the information difficult for inspectors >to track. This is an interesting development because it also makes it hard for the Iraqi government to track what is going on, too. The government of Iraq has been aware of the dangers of computers for many years. At one time they were tightly controlled. Even typewriters were controlled. The government had writing samples of each one. Now, apparently, this policy is loosening. This suggests that U.S. policy of the last 8 years has managed to achieve what Saddam Hussein could not - it has made the Hussein regime a genuinely popular government. Still, it can't be universally popular. How many cypherpunks live in Iraq? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHoZopaWtjSmRH/5AQG9ogf9FFdBqiwOk3gekieqIg3+Yr5pdaYM5/4v lIHPYuPM5IMpe8Wc1DX1FzG4YUC4hGMtj4w6eU8KNc3bSESVDPcU2boUVJtDjQp2 jUh13tKM/s6kwjQXKjH9j5G0cr1fsMrP9v7T4qNSEUA9VV8xI/Zqq7t/jLxncjSC jodmc/IcO5gPwxuvHLw8FR0/qpxuNJXSNWqzBptbT8vHldyPLg1E6rCOdWdNsDdN kvzyW9EXLbNWweK3ezFaWniytRbxE99poJN3iNcdsxjg94otIEpS3oCAJjuCmyrf HYRfv/Z5yzqpY5doAtdfy5RkvREwrINvCtLn+hgcBxQ0YTEDO8zUUg== =jyt7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: The Illusion of Freedom
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Nerthus wrote: >Monty Cantsin wrote: >>However, most people who engage in war are not in any sense free and >>the single most apparent feature of life in a military organization is >>the elimination of freedom and privacy. >> >>It is most often the case that in order to wage war, one must first >>become enslaved. > >Those who wage war are rarely the slaves. Those who die usually are. >The "cannon fodder" you mentioned. "Okay soldier, let's see that pass!" Is this the treatment accorded to a free man? Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHoUf5aWtjSmRH/5AQEp5wf+Msxpn/u0SRIxwAWsbTstxm2EK4PzUAg/ zZrPovQ/uhHjG0Wed3tAuaI2mK4EtTNoNEFhXkdbgDDGmsJj2eXeFVr7c0fMjHFt OSDJYuaHc26XYgiC6CqjBnn1viaoPXH873Fgo34v57tHOMqUMGWnKxLgr6DiGroz aZLVEsXJ0UN2C4Z2MuB2FB34MKgsg4TwwBlx33r5544vpHaURtnhedOBAurxpWE9 24WQs2NRh+ogvMk8XCg9stGwMSqR1cxfEkD4ogCWVdh5snvl8QYD3cw3j0fkiWsb YNJ6oqn9095/jBuJxXImd2Yc8a3fVeLlto8B2T/kVzcsfNVgOXdAGA== =tY4g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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17 Dec '03

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New Algorithm (reposted)
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Report on UN conferen
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Mikhael Frieden <mikhaelf(a)mindspring.co> wrote reg. "illegal immigrants": > > In a much more fundamental sense, if they were not given > > constitutional protections they really could be rounded up and > > bussed across the border. > > And what would be wrong with this? > Not a damned thing. While in this country they are in the act of > committing a crime. Once they have been deported they have > stopped committing the crime and then they can plead to appear > in court. It used to be, that people are "felons under an increasing number of laws". Now we've congressed to an "increasing number of felons regardless of what they do" (their "crime" is being from "other side" of the pencil-lines, that the statists have drawn on their papers). Even the "freedom-loving", no-boundaries etc. Cypherpunks fall over those imaginery "border-lines", without having it ever dawn on them, that *everything* done now to "illegal immigrants" will one day soon be extended to the government-issued passport/digital VeriSign-Tax-ID bearing "Americans" as well. (Please refer to the "War on Drugs" for proof of patterns.) In fact, it's being done already. The systems developed to "track down illegal aliens" can track ANYBODY for that matter. AnybodyHomeMonger

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Re: Seeing Both Sides
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Robert Hettinga wrote: >Concord is clearly proof that Britain didn't understand that they >couldn't control America anymore and acted on that misinformation. It >was *their* problem, as the revolution bore out. Britain would probably have been capable of controlling America had France not intervened. France provided desperately needed powder and money to the revolutionaries. During the siege of Boston it was seriously proposed that bow and arrows be employed due to powder shortages. Spears were actually prepared for use! France also provided officers to staff the poorly trained and organized American armies, troops, and even a navy. The final victory at Yorktown was largely a French operation, for example. Here is Richard N. Rosenfeld's take on it from "American Aurora": Page 418: "There are approximately 32,000 French soldiers and sailors at Yorktown, four to six times the number of George Washington's army, and more than twice, if not three times, the number of all Americans at Yorktown, including militia. Indeed, there are many more French soldiers on the ground than American Continentals. The entire blockading force at sea is French." Page 419: "Of French and American forces which encircle Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, the naval part of this circle consists strictly of French warships (more than thirty) and sailors (nineteen thousand!). America has no warships in this naval blockade." Page 419: "Orchestrating the siege at Yorktown is strictly a matter for the French. Washington has no experience in siege warfare. The French perfected the art. Rochambeau has taken part in fourteen sieges! General Lebigne, the Chevalier Du Portail, and other French officers and engineers take charge of siege operations." Page 420: "Two French soldiers die for each American death at Yorktown. Two French soldiers are wounded for each American wound at Yorktown. French casualties exceed 250." Page 421: "British General Charles O'Hara, acting on behalf of General Charles Cornwallis (who has pleaded illness), attempts to surrender Cornwallis' (sic) sword to French Commander in Chief General the Comte de Rochambeau, but Rochambeau magnanimously refuses to accept the surrender weapon and directs the British general to George Washington." Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHnGVJaWtjSmRH/5AQH3hgf+LcvSRiufKxypdjVEXn5vbMa1Ob2IUfyY qSklLDEdYlRP2iOtl1dsLT/XIXaabo6F8lkAVqBXnXffiLd5ewzWs51jI9HEeoMa gtlfgUS49fxBeLeaojen1VVLvr4zkVWjATmspNk1SRu2l6Arc/3KgwPeYgX0A9+V 5fqguVO/frV4BH6wqnVyuKosO2DXoP8njVfjwuTybwO1yO1BQ4+EtgW1m6jkXIwE RjSZsGS7+KK2Ywu9eGWdC2Y0sOPG6k9zy/4zmm+xlttocYx75ixwCwYNWJihNfPe /uT8emxWak0aPAAynug6ZGPU3CXdRZ3JsWKB6a2s3kVgGiIQ2oLxrg== =ZZoe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Violence and Depravity
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A Noncom To Be Named Later wrote: >Monty Cantsin wrote: >>Violence is, in nearly every case, a poor investment of time, >money, and energy. > >I disagree. I've removed the discussion regarding McVeigh's involvement. It is entirely possible he is an Oswald. I simply do not know. However, my discussion was really intended to consider the morality of war and to point out that McVeigh's alleged actions and alleged values are not far removed from those exercised by governmentally sponsored warriors. If you like, change all the names and call it a thought problem. >Consider that if this action was meant to revenge or commemorate the >Waco massacre, it achieved the opposite goal. However, if this was >the work of agents-provocateur, it worked beautifully. For the sake of discussion, let's say that the Oklahoma City bombing was the act of provocateurs hoping to increase the power and authority of the U.S. Federal government. It is the case that the use of violence has been applied to this goal successfully many times in the past. This certainly does call into question my claim that "Violence is, in nearly every case, a poor investment of time, money, and energy." Your observation and my claim are actually not inconsistent if you consider that I do not consider increasing the power and authority of most governments as a good thing. Let's expand the discussion to war. If one considers it desirable to: 1. increase taxes, 2. to waste vast resources, 3. to kill large numbers of civilians indiscriminately or methodically, 4. to kill large numbers of conscripts, 5. to destroy the land, 6. to create millions of people who will live the rest of their lives in post combat nightmares, 7. to lay the seeds for future wars, 8. to create thousands, or even millions, of orphans, 9. to cause food shortages and disease, 10. and to traumatize human society, then violence in the form of war is a good investment. Not too many people see this as desirable. I still maintain that in nearly every case, if one is intent on pursuing a worthwhile goal, it will not be attained through the use of violence. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNHoSgpaWtjSmRH/5AQG+FQf/TRMgXwhH3nlJ27EMupdSxZoIwWQQRdkn g0E5PjVaB7E6xHuUpq+fKW7zqzm9egIEPa2aQxthXkghjiT+7yDZgkeLlbZ6NCs3 UtUTQUo57uHPHioojwI9Q+d2ENG+QTLIGHeaoOVDHPzMATffFCZ1B6qdBcjdHaJ3 BnxBviPffrfAMsl1C4foOTSrIonKKd74ad0j2vCefGN3w8c71RKilrTBFZfVEoD1 gKG+Dn8u4ea83QNLOR7zuJf8Zwsas9aqvaMD5qcQLZyhxm/ehm/UOqWQRdPDAb13 4o0Cd0kZ+3DyIs6dzi9PZVOge594rt6LBOPQfMcoB899t/SpxI0Q0Q== =a8p7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: The Illusion of Freedom
by Secret Squirrel 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Monty Cantsin wrote: >Nerthus wrote: >>Monty Cantsin wrote: >>>However, most people who engage in war are not in any sense free and >>>the single most apparent feature of life in a military organization is >>>the elimination of freedom and privacy. >>> >>>It is most often the case that in order to wage war, one must first >>>become enslaved. >> >>Those who wage war are rarely the slaves. Those who die usually are. >>The "cannon fodder" you mentioned. > >"Okay soldier, let's see that pass!" Is this the treatment accorded >to a free man? Clearly not. Let me rephrase what I said since it appears it was not as obvious as I had thought. Those who wage war (the politicians/"kings") are rarely the slaves. Those who die (the soldiers/citizens) usually are. The soldiers and citizens are the pawns and other chessmen on the chessboard who are sacrificed to protect the king of their color while attempting to checkmate the king of the other color. All chessmen are expendable, except the two kings. When one of the kings is checkmated, the game is over. Note: the king can be checkmated without the loss of a single chessman, though it is rare. However, the possibility exists. Think about it. Nerthus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNHtawOFWwZe05jcJAQGvZggAhDzCHUGgXEsKkPIEoiuhfqIDVsjVDEnY xDHeJcaBnTQmlp3bbqapgEyfMwisxGKOqYkEe4UknKkGgTfSFZZ/3lpaY7ljbowE qaeO/yHrJOhABeGnBQgLNJUpF5JyA29nGNqyjaKS8u9fi6hN5VeE+UgoLagRwwnf fyphD9Q6hzvaka0TeeLua9h294HgHXu7L8CSUvsTlnA4CEHfebMxDIkyBE6k2TOV UWDZusi9Qs/vr1MRDAD5+9i1OdIqS+YZedpE/yt7w+xsqZr/+W9bz4rSc3Feba6h PipF0Jb5SBwIv4C6bRuHIpJ9mbm3C5LNbTq84RKaCVU0xp+SMWQB1g== =4XaY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: RESULT: comp.org.cauce passes 548:122
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Jari Aalto -- AT poboxes.com <ssjaaa(a)uce-die.uta.fi> wrote: > | Anon.penet.fi was *NOT* an anonymous remailer, though. It was a "pseudonym > | server". The fact that it maintained a database by which posts could be > | "traced back to a real address" is the main reason why it's no longer in > | operation. > > You give wrong inmpression about PENET; which was after all, the first > anonymnous service. There are levels of anonymity. For penet strory, > refer to this: > > http://www2.thecia.net/users/rnewman/scientology/anon/penet.html I'm not knocking the anon.penet.fi experiment. We've all learned a lot from it. Let's not forget those lessons. The same attack has been tried on two different remailers. In 1996, the anon.penet.fi remailer was the subject of an attack by the Co$. As part of that attack, the remailer's database which linked the "anonymous" accounts to their actual holders. The operator valiantly defended the integrity of that database, and it was not compromised. But the potential was certainly there. This year, Jeff Burchell's "Huge Cajones Remailer" came under attack. Alleging "abuse" involving that remailer, Gary Burnore and Belinda Bryan of DataBasix demanded that Jeff turn over ALL his logs to them. Fortunately, Jeff wisely kept no such logs. Even though the remailer was eventually harassed out of existence, the privacy of its users was preserved because the information the attackers demanded simply wasn't there to demand. That's a wise idea for the same reason that retail merchants remove the cash from their cash registers when they're closed, leaving the cash drawers unlocked. There's less temptation to stage an attack if you know in advance that you won't get what you're seeking (the identity of someone you'd like to silence, for example) by staging such an attack. Any operator that keeps identifying information is inviting litigation, or worse. If you're an ISP and are making money, then perhaps that risk is justified. But you can't expect a volunteer operator of a free remailer to take such a risk for nothing. You're right. For those who only need a superficial level of "anonymity" and don't really care if their identity is eventually revealed publicly, some of the alternatives such as Hotmail would perhaps suffice. But that's a decision best left to the user, and not to be mandated by others with a lesser stake in the consequences. --

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1812_Napoleon_in_Moscow.htm
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Napoleonic Literature Greenhill [INLINE] Books _________________________________________________________________ [INLINE] 1812: NAPOLEON IN MOSCOW by Paul Britten Austin 9 x 6 in. (240 x 159 mm). 272 pages. 22 halftones, 2 maps. ISBN 1-85367-195-9. U.K. Price £19.50. U.S. Price $40.00. Napoleon's Grande Armée waits at the gates of Moscow, preparing to enter in triumphal procession. But it finds a city abandoned by its inhabitants - save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuzes hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burns, while looters dodge the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin's atmospheric 'word-film' presented through the testimony of more than 100 of the people who witnessed the took part in the campaign. A large proportion of these close-up accounts have never been seen in English before. After the fires die down the army settles in the ruins of Moscow. For five weeks Napoleon waits at the Kremlin, expecting 'his brother the Tsar' in St. Petersburg to capitulate and make peace, while in fact the Russian army is gathering its strength. At the same time Murat's cavalry, the advance guard, is encamped in dreadful conditions three days' march away at Winkowo, where it is being starved to death. When Napoleon eventually realizes the futility of his plans and prepares to leave Moscow, the advance guard is surprised by a Russian attack and tumbles head over heels out of its position. The most astounding exodus in modern times ensues. Trailing thousands of wagons and carriages laden with all the stupendous loot of Moscow, the Grande Armée moves slowly south in an attempt to outflank the Russian General Kutusov. At Malo-Jaroslavetz, 100 kilometers from Moscow, it runs headlong into ten of Kutuzov's divisions, and its 'conquest of the world' comes to an end with the shock of Napoleon himself narrowly escaping capture by Cossacks. 1812: Napoleon in Moscow follows on from the brilliant 1812: The March on Moscow, which brought Napoleon's army across Europe to the great city. Paul Britten Austin recreates this next phase of the epic campaign with characteristic verve, and an astonishing sense of immediacy from the words of the participants themselves. Paul Britten Austin went to sea as a cabin boy in the British merchant marine, graduating to Radio Officer and serving in tankers and liberty ships. In 1947 he recovered his childhood home in Paris, but moved to Sweden, where he married the Swedish novelist Margareta Bergman, sister of the film director. For nearly a decade he was in charge of English-language broadcasts from Radio Sweden; thereafter, from 1957 to 1969, of the Swedish government tourist office in London. He has written a score of books on various subjects, both in English and in Swedish, including a classic biography of the eighteenth century Swedish poet Carl Michael Bellman. He has also translated many other Swedish classics and he has been awarded a Swedish knighthood of the Order of the North Star and an honorary D.Litt. In 1989 he contributed the article on Marshal Oudinot to David Chandler's anthology Napoleon's Marshals. _________________________________________________________________ (If you surfed directly to this page, please go to the Napoleonic Literature Home Page to see the wealth of information that's available on this website.)

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"Good job NANAE. You really fucked up royally." (was: Furor over Spam)
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

tweek(a)netcom.com (R R M Tweek) wrote: > I think it's fucking funny if you ask me. The unworthy "databasix goons" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > were concerned just about this sort of thing occuring. Isn't it amazing how they can "predict" thing like that? > I hope that > LOA was running some sort of caller ID, or supeonas the phone records > of those calls who step across the line and made threats in their 4am > phone calls. Can't wait to see how this story sways the congresscritters > when Sanford tries to spin this incident his was in the anti-spam legislation > hearings. Maybe you ought to give (or sell cheaply) your fellow "databasix goon" Gary Burnore the clue that if he's going to call an alleged "spammer" on the phone at 2 AM and ream him about a Usenet post, that he shouldn't brag about it publicly. And yet he did exactly that. Would it be any wonder if people were to start suspecting that he might have done the same thing again? Now go subpoena those phone records. You might want to concentrate on calls made from the Raleigh-Durham, NC area. If you're alluding to the fact that Ron Guilmette may have been responsible, since the disinformation team at DataBasix has accused him practically everything else, you have about as much chance of proving that as O.J. Simpson does of "finding the real killers". > Good job NANAE. You really fucked up royally. One could conceivably substitute "DataBasix" for "NANAE" in that flame. --

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Re: Open Letter from ClickZ Publisher
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

gburnore+spam(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote: > : gburnore+spam(a)netcom.com (Gary L. Burnore) wrote: > : > > : >Oh no, couldn't have been anyone from this group, right? BULLSHIT. > : > : Unless it was you, criminal. > > So a being arrested (a ticket actually) is being a criminal to you, eh? Good ol' Gary "Shoot from the Lip" Burnore ... gotta love 'im, right? I gotta hand it to you, Burnore, you have a knack for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The "criminal" comment was obviously intended as a joke, and the poster even apologized for it, but you just couldn't leave it alone, could you? You had to go bragging about your "martyrdom" in San Francisco, didn't you? For further info on Gary's arrest, visit: http://www.e-media.com/cm/sac.html First off, it eventually became "a ticket actually" because it was plea bargained down to that. That's one of the advantages of committing a "politically correct" offense in a city like Frisco. The San Francisco Police Department presumably doesn't take people into custody and impound their vehicles for mere traffic tickets. But it does prove that you're willing to break the law to prove a point. Remember how you bragged about calling a spammer at home at 2 AM to harass him? When you say: "Oh no, couldn't have been anyone from this group, right? BULLSHIT." you're absolutely correct. It could have been you! I have no doubt that someone who'd dig up an ancient tax lien and post it to Usenet in an attempt to embarass and silence a critic could well have done what's mentioned here. --

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