December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

GOLD IN BOLIVIA
by bluesky17＠mailexcite.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

INTRODUCTION SUN RIVER MINING, INC. offers investors an incredible ground-floor investment opportunity in a company that is slated to begin producing gold during 1999 at a cash cost of less than US$100 per ounce! Sun River Mining went public in September and trades on the NASDAQ OTC electronic bulletin board under the symbol "SUNR". Sun River Mining is tightly-held (insiders hold 7.8 million shares), has a limited float (approximately 1.5 million shares) and is not very widely known. The Company's primary business is the acquisition, exploration and development of placer gold projects in Bolivia, with the goal of becoming Bolivia's largest and lowest-cost alluvial gold producer. The management team has over 60 years of placer mining experience. THE COMPANY Sun River Mining, through its Bolivian subsidiary, North Bolivian Investment S.A. has entered into a Letter of Understanding Agreement with Aluvion S.A. and its shareholders to acquire up to an 81% equity interest in Aluvion, which is a Bolivian company holding mineral concessions in the Tipuani River basin. Aluvion management has extensive dredging experience in alluvial / placer gold prospects and owns hydraulic excavation equipment. The Company has obtained a report on the Tipuani River prospects of Aluvion from the respected mining and engineering firm in Denver, Colorado of Watts, Griffis & McOuat, Limited ("WGM"). The Report concluded that "there are indeed significant volumes of unmined uriferous gravels to justify interest in establishing commercial operations based on these deposits." WGM recommended additional drilling of prospects for evaluation purposes, and that negotiations to reduce royalty interests in the concessions begin. The company is currently seeking funding sources and / or oint venture partners to provide capital for the pursuit of the Aluvion S.A.opportunities. The Letter of Understanding Agreement requires aggregate payments of $7,189,000 to complete a 74.324% equity interest acquisition of Aluvion, of which over $400,00 has been advanced to Aluvion with $5.57 million due January 31, 1999 and a further $1.2 million to be paid out of production. Further, $2.5 million additional paid in capital would increase SUNR's equity interest in Aluvion to 81%. There are on-going negotiations with several financing sources; however, the Company has not received a binding commitment for such funds at this time, nor are there guarantees or assurances that such a financing can be arranged on terms acceptable to Sun River Mining. Sun River Mining's Denver-area location allows it to tap into a wealth of local technical, financial and operational expertise. Other Colorado-based firms with major property positions as well as operating and developing mines in Bolivia include: Orvana Resources (developing the Don Mario and Pederson gold projects), Granges, Inc. (undertaking feasibility studies on the Capa Circa and Amayapampa deposits), and Golden Eagle International. MANAGEMENT Among operating companies, a key component of success is the experience of the management team. If Sun River Mining acquires Aluvion S.A., it will have the benefit of Gaston Fernandez (currently the President of Aluvion) who has 45 years of mining experience, mostly in dredging operations in South America. Mr. Fernandez was Chief Engineer on the Kaka River dredge operated by South America Placers, Inc. from 1957 - 1965, using the same dredge that Sun River Mining / Aluvion intends to acquire, refurbish and use on the Tipuani & Kaka River projects. His son, Marcelo Fernandez, is a mining engineer with over 20 years of placer mining experience (a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines), who is employed by Aluvion as technical and operations manager for the Lower Tipuani and Kaka River gold projects. THE PROSPECTS Lower Tipuani. The Lower Tipuani prospects cover approximately 8 km along the Tipuani River between the towns of Guanay and Tipuani. Guanay is located 105 kilometers north of LaPaz, Bolivia, and is connected with LaPaz by a 230-km paved, gravel and dirt road (a new paved road is under construction). In the Lower Tipuani area, the river is 30 to 60 meters wide and up to 10 meters deep. All of the necessary infrastructure is in place, including a 100-man base camp, access roads and high voltage hydroelectric power lines. An environmental impact study has been completed and approved by the Bolivian government. The one remaining permit necessary to begin construction, the "environmental operating license", takes about 60 days to receive (Aluvion needs to provide Bolivian government with information on the equipment to be used and a schedule for the exploitation phase). Planned mining operations would involve dredging, washing and filtering river gravels to recover free particles of gold and produce dore bars (> 95% Au). With no chemical processes involved, mining and processing operations do not pose the risk of introducing into the environment the chemicals used to recover gold by many other mining projects. The Lower Tipuani alluvials would be mined out over a four-year span (1999 - 2002). During this period, Aluvion projects recovering over 257,000 ounces of gold, or an average of 64,300 ounces per year. Cash operating costs are estimated at US$93 per ounce (these projections have been reviewed by Watts, Griffis & McOuat). Kaka River. Subject to financing, operations are currently projected to begin in the year 2000; gravel deposits, if economically producable, could last for an estimated minimum 20 year mine life (this prospect is not subject to seasonal shutdowns during the rainy season). Sun River Mining / Rio Del Sol have entered into a letter of intent with Central Cooperative Teoponte, which represents nine local cooperatives operating along the Kaka River. Subject to funding and performance requirements, the Kaka River properties are expected to be acquired in return for a production royalty (no cash / shares / debt). NEW LISTING ("SUNR" on OTC:BB) GOLD PRODUCTION PROJECTED TO BEGIN IN 1999 PROJECTED ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF > 150,000 oz/yr @ US$96/oz FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: SUN RIVER MINING, INC. 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Army Plonks (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:30:38 -0400 > From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> > Subject: Army Plonks > Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and > NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and > "temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend > a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and > secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians > to gameboy infofoolery? > > That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use > terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession. It's called milnet and it's been in existance ever since about '83. It occured when ARPA became DARPA. I was working on a DoD project at UT Austin at the time. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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complex mathematical formulae
by bill payne 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I hope http://www.jya.com/itl-news.htm enjoys black and white. "complex mathematical formulae" aka pseduomathematics Then, in late 1942, the Royal Navy switched codes to the one-time pad system. The Nazi tap was lost forever because the pad system is unbreakable in both theory as well as practice. U-boats could no longer ambush helpless ships like wolves on sheep. Convoy after convoy arrived safe and intact, protected in the armor of an unbreakable code system. The U-boats had to change tactics. http://www.us.net/softwar/ Germany used the enigma algorithm and machine. Japan used the purple algorithm. And look what happened to them! I hope all of this helps Charles R Smith's business. http://www.softwar.net/plight.html Title: Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms Jump to Forum Click Image to Jump to Next Article Go to Text Only Print Version Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms by William H. Payne This article requires special formatting. Please Click Here to Read Send This Article to a Friend: Your Name: Email Address of your Friend: Your Email address: Back to Home Page Quick Menu Visit the Button Shop Interactive Forum Black and White Test of Cryptographic Algorithms E-mail the Editor

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Re: Meriweather v. Gates
by Information Security 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay(a)got.net> > > It's an ironic indication of where we are that Bill Gates is being hounded > by the Justice Department, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Novell, and Ralph > Nader while no one is hounding John Meriwether. In fact, the Federal > Reserve System, nominally nongovernmental (wink wink) just helped to bail > out his firm, Long-Term Capital Management. > > Gates, you see, has a non-leveraged investment of $50 billion in Microsoft. > No borrowing, no margin debt, just plain old-fashioned ownership. And a monopoly that doesn't need a bailout. > Meriwether, on the other hand, started in 1991 and took in money from > speculators. He took the $2.2 billion and borrowed with it, hitting the > $125 B in borrowed assets point. Then he and his rocket scientists > essentially borrowed still more, using this $125 B to leverage $1.25 T. (T > for "trillion.") > > Not bad, going from $2.2 B to $1.25 T, a mere 500-fold increase. Sheer unmitigated greed on the part of the banks, not knowing or forcing Meriwether to tell them. Over leveraging is what caused the Great Depression via the stock market collapse. ---guy Gosh, thank goodness they are loosening the bank/brokerage rules...not.

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Horde this Book: the first Y2K action novel
by Declan McCullagh 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:01:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan(a)well.com> To: politech(a)vorlon.mit.edu Subject: Horde this Book: the first Y2K action novel http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980929-14649,00.html TIME Digital's Netly News September 29, 1998 Horde This Book By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)well.com) Book Review America's computers crashed on January 1, 2000. Cars won't start, planes won't fly, and the military is in shambles. Soldiers of unknown origin have seized control of a key high-tech company. China is about to invade. The one man who can save Western civilization from a Digital Dark Age is Y2K fixmeister Mark Solvang. Mark's problem? Well, it happens to be his company those troops took over. What comes next is a predictable romp through gun battles, hacking, and government intrigue that's sure to satisfy Chuck Norris fans but leave anyone else hoping for more. [...remainder snipped...]

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Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:33:38 -0400 > From: Adam Shostack <adam(a)homeport.org> > Subject: Re: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd) > What did I say about not paying for people's work? I'm perfectly > happy to pay for code, and I prefer to buy open source code; it tends > to be higher quality. I don't want to have to accept your opinion on > how I should release code along with the code. Jesus Christ on a stick. Take a fucking chill pill Adam. That 'you' is the literary you, not you personaly. You (not the literary you) should seriously consider counseling. Talk about hair-triggered. If anybody is guilty of demanding people do it 'their way' it's you. You really need to better understand this inability of yours to seperate your self-worth as an individual from the ideas you espouse and supposedly put out for public dialog. Everybody has stupid idea, if you can't admit that then there's a problem more serious than having stupid ideas. Everybody makes mistakes everyday, and if you seriously think you don't then you have found your first mistake today. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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One Nation launch - the day the media snapped
by Scott Balson 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Dear One Nation supporter, Please take time to view this report with images of the One Nation launch yesterday. <A href="http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/onenation/federal/launch/">http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/onenation/federal/launch/ GWB Scott Balson

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:30 AM 9/29/98 -0400, John Young wrote: >Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and >NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and >"temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend >a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and >secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians >to gameboy infofoolery? Well, for some months now they've password protected some of the more delicate stuff (e.g., "lessons learned", some of the field manuals). And they have been rejecting non .mil addresses too. Certainly we can expect them to eventually get a clue and think about what's out there. Mostly they have. (Of course it was within the last year that a .mil was exporting PGP!) The army's over-reaction is quaint but essentially reasonable --the W3 pages are just PR, and they're real edgy these days after they tried to scalp Osama with a tomohawk. [digression: I wonder when Osama will have his own web page with matching funds for the head of the Great Satan, and whether there would be a shootout on the net, e.g., the DNS records being changed, a phone call to their ISP] As far as the NSA's online personnel records, I bet they're still worried about the CIA shootout down the street a few years back. There's still plenty of names, phones, email addresses in the .gov domain, with building locations, etc. But Jim Bell is locked up so they're not so uptight. >That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use >terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession. They keep trying different passwords to the constitution. Its a dictionary attack: "pedophile", "droogs", "terrorist", "WMD", etc. --Ceci n'est-ce pas un Toto

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No Subject
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 08:21 AM 9/29/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >It's called milnet and it's been in existance ever since about '83. It >occured when ARPA became DARPA. I was working on a DoD project at UT Austin >at the time. Look up SIPRNET

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Re: (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:07:45 -0500 > From: Leif Ericksen <leif(a)imho.net> > Subject: Re: > > At 08:21 AM 9/29/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > > > > > >It's called milnet and it's been in existance ever since about '83. It > > 1983???? Are you 100% sure about that I am almost 100% sure that it was > alone longer than that. I can not be quoted on it but I am sure that it > was in existence before that... OH I beg your pardon, 1983 is what the > government will really admit to even if there are documents that show it > may be older than that.... Might have been 82, find out when ARPA became DARPA and *only* worked on defense related material. The distinction was one of administration and not physical changes to anything other than some nameservers and routers. When the change happened it meant that ARPA could no longer participate as an equal with the NFS so they split the funding and administrative servers. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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