December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

yet ANOTHER "Internet == child porn "story.
by I=(!isnum(self)) 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Again on today's CBS all-news stn. An elementary school teacher arrested for exchanging, or whatever, kiddieporn on the Internet. The reporter was duly dramatic and ominous sounding. Damn I wish I knew how many kiddie porners were doing their whatver OFF the 'net. Maybe, my fine friends, we're catching MORE o' them because they are on the net and clueless, rather than in back alleys and hard to find. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Recommended reading: "Manufacture of Consent", Noam Chomsky. Altho I hate much of his politics, that one's right on.

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Church of Scientology
by Dale Thorn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Scuttlebut is, CoS rolled over on some pesky ultra-right-wingers as a favor to Morris Dees and various scumbag associates. For this, CoS got their long-awaited (40-plus years!) federal tax-free status. This status is big cash, so naturally, interested parties wanted to know under what rules did CoS get their tax-free gift, since long-standing high court decisions laid out the profit-making business plan of CoS in no uncertain terms, explicit and detailed. Problem is, nobody was able to get the details of the policy change - did CoS change their business plan, or did the fed change their rules?

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FW: Re: talker
by Blake Wehlage 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>Return-Path: <doom13(a)juno.com> >To: jwilk(a)iglou.com >Subject: Re: talker >References: <m0uzcEf-000bPKC(a)relay.iglou.com> >X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 1-5 >From: doom13(a)juno.com (Floyd W Odom) >Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 10:56:43 EDT Check this out guys & gals > >Hey Blake cyphering sucks. You want to live on the like us? I went to >jail for jackin the westroads. And I still got away wit some shit. > > > >Doom13 > > ========================================== Blake Wehlage <jwilk(a)iglou.com> ±» RëVðLû¡ØÑ Bø+ ©ÖmP@ñ¥ «± Goto: http://members.iglou.com/jwilk

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Re: Encourage Singapore To Come Out Of the Stone Age
by James A. Donald 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 12:39 PM 9/3/96 +0800, Enzo Michelangeli wrote: > The idea that rights and values can be "natural" is contradicted by > several thousand years of history, during which absolutism or downright > tyranny have been well more common than freedom. The existence of foot binding in China is not evidence that women's feet have no particular natural shape. > The success of that misleading view in America, and by extension in most > of the western countries, is largely due to the unfortunate influence of > [...] When one engineers bridge, designed according to one theory of materials physics, stands up, and another engineers bridge, designed according to a different theory of material physics, falls down, does that not suggest that the first engineer knows what he is talking about, and the second engineer does not? > In the real world, freedom is a by-product of a materially prosperous > society (which is why capitalism generally produces free societies, but > socialism does not). First, you have this completely the wrong way around: Prosperity is the product of a free society. For example when the Dutch revolted from Spain, they were at first poorer than spain. Secondly there is ample counter evidence: For example in America before the european conquest, some Indian societies were extremely free and others, such as the Incas, had institutions very similar to modern totalitarianism, yet their material level was very different to today's, and not very different from each others. Again the Germanic tribes that conquered England had very high levels of liberty, yet were terribly poor, and the Icelanders of Saga period Iceland were very free, yet very poor. > Trying to build a free society by screaming loud > what the "natural" rights are supposed to be, has no better chances of > success than [...] Succeeded the last two times it was tried. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd(a)echeque.com

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Re: TWA 800 - Friendly Fire?
by Stephen Cobb 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> >-Millie >sfuze(a)tiac.net > >"What we have here is a FAILURE to COMMUNICATE" (some song) > Actually some movie, Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman. The WAV file is around here somewhere. s.

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Re: What the NSA is patenting
by paul＠fatmans.demon.co.uk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>The NSA STM method is related to reading _very subtle_ variations in >magnetic domain modifications. Jitter in read-write head positions can be >thought of as a noise (N) added to some signal (S)l. > Extraction of signals >in low S/N ration environments is a well-developed science. As anyone who has ever subscribed to alt.sex will know ;-) Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul(a)fatmans.demon.co.uk Http://www.fatmans.demon.co.uk/crypt/ "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey" -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6 mQCNAjH9j+cAAAEEAMBvREiQR0ot9dFCO0TiSCSunAYLv2g1Bc6I3bz8FzKXNH53 6mieJf/W4rD+CxJpT0q9RQaaoRtkHJLwbjfK2il3D7mEahMAyqvF/xRJNqkXfhM3 sRJM0Jh43l+W0M5vwokbEbk25/bxWWGspTsLD3YHbzKnG6pOcL5OPIRbv66xAAUR tCdQYXVsIEJyYWRsZXkgPHBhdWxAZmF0bWFucy5kZW1vbi5jby51az4= =riHc -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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Re: Church of Scientology
by Jim Byrd 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 07:44 AM 9/8/96 -0700, Dale Thorn <dthorn(a)gte.net> wrote: >Scuttlebut is, CoS rolled over on some pesky ultra-right-wingers as a >favor to Morris Dees and various scumbag associates. For this, CoS got >their long-awaited (40-plus years!) federal tax-free status. > >This status is big cash, so naturally, interested parties wanted to know >under what rules did CoS get their tax-free gift, since long-standing >high court decisions laid out the profit-making business plan of CoS in >no uncertain terms, explicit and detailed. > >Problem is, nobody was able to get the details of the policy change - >did CoS change their business plan, or did the fed change their rules? This is exactly the subject of a lawsuit by Tax Analysts, Inc. against the IRS. This is still in progress. The cult is not a party to this suit, so they can't bring their lawyers into this one.

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Thank you
by Askbill Questions 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Thank you for your email. I appreciate you taking the time to write to me. As you can probably imagine, I receive hundreds of messages from outside of Microsoft each day. While I love to read people's views and share ideas about technology, unfortunately, I am not able to answer each and every inquiry. Instead, I'll be responding to some of your questions in my column. The second column each month will be dedicated to answering questions from readers like you, so keep reading and I'll do my best to address the topics that are of interest to readers worldwide. I also invite you to check out the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/corpinfo where you can find all of the columns, as well as lots of additional fun and useful information. Thank you for your continued support of Microsoft and our products and best of luck with all your endeavors, Bill Gates

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9yrold
by doom13＠juno.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Does anyone out there know any kids mailing lists, because my little brother Richard just joined and he doesn't have anything to mail to he's only 9 years old. floyd odom

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Re: PRESS RELEASE: GERMANY CENSORS DUTCH WEBSITE WWW.XS4ALL.NL
by jfricker＠vertexgroup.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 03:24 AM 9/6/96 -0700, you wrote: > >* wouldn't it be deliciously ironic if the "Free Speech Blue Ribbon" now >attached to so many pages were to be joined by a "Star of David"? This Star >of David symbol could mean "We support freedom to read, and our site >contains the "Radikal" publication which Germans are forbidden to access." > Well I think the Star of David has so many meanings that the message may get muddled. Seems like busy sites can support the mirror of their choice by putting a note such as "This is a Radikal site". The "mispelling" is the medium. >(I know nothing of how such symbolic campaigns are actually launched and >managed, so I'm suggesting the hint of an idea. I do think mirroring the >banned publication (_any_ banned publication, by _any_ government) on as >many sites as possible is a Good Idea.) > Tell two people. Put up a mirror. Add a link on a busy page. Did I miss anything? --j http://206.101.74.42 is a Radikal site

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