December 2003 - cypherpunks-legacy

Another potential flaw in current economic theory...
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, It occurs to me that there is another potential flaw in current economic theory and business practice. Currently (ala Friedmann) the parties that reap the benefit of a succesful business are the shareholders, this is currently seen to exclude the employees in many cases/companies. This approach undervalues the business worth of the employees commitment to the business. A more reasonable approach (and one that might make free-markets more workable, though not by itself) is to consider the employees shareholders even if they don't hold a single piece of stock. And no, their paychecks are not sufficient. Consider, another way to look at a business' goals is "to make every shareholder a millionare so they don't have to work at anything else". What business do you know has the specific goal of making their employees (all the way down to the janitor) sufficiently wealthy from their commitment to the business so that at some point they don't have to work any more either (and we are NOT talking about some measly 401k retirement program)? What would the impact be to the current business models if we include this axiomaticaly? ____________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: My citizenship renunciation made difficult
by John Cypherpunk 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>From Vince Cate: : But most of all, the very idea that the US government has to give me : permission to renounce my association with it seems totally : wrong. The people in the US are supposed to be free, not slaves or : subjects. Free means free to leave. ........................................................ Did you use the right forms to establish your citizenship? Suggest the nice embassy people attend your offices to prove you are a US citizen. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control
by Theodor.SCHLICKMANN＠BXL.DG13.cec.be 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.europarl.eu.int/dg4/stoa/en/publi/166499/execsum.htm

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Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:17:50 +0100 > From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen(a)stud.uni-muenchen.de> > Subject: Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... > I see there are lots of interesting discussions on economy recently > on this list. But I miss stuffs relating to the currently existing > crisis of the financial market, topics like causes of failure of > LTCM etc. etc. All I've been discussing is a handful of thought on free-market economies and human psychology. Haven't really touched the actual market issues directly. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Happy Birthday to Convicted Child Molester Gary Burnore
by Anonymous 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hackman <hacker(a)nospam.jump.net> wrote: > James howard wrote: > > > > Did anyone remember to wish convicted child molester Gary Lee > > > Burnore a happy 41st birthday on Tuesday? I was just doing a net > > > search and came across this excerpt taken from his info on the North > > > Carolina registered sex offenders' website: > > > > > > > Street: 4201 BLAND ROAD APT J > > > > City: RALEIGH State: NC Zip: 27609 County: WAKE > > > > > > > > Race: W Sex: M Height: 5'08" Weight: 170 LBS. Hair: BRO Eyes: BLU > > > > Birth Date(s): 10-13-1957 > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > Why is it "Birth Date(s)"? Is it possible to have more than one? > > multiple alias ? Since "Megan's law" where an effort has been made to warn residents of a convicted child molester living in their neighborhood, I can well imagine that many of them have resorted to using aliases. Another possibility is that since so many of them have multiple convictions on their rap sheets, and since the data entry operators cannot always read an officer's handwriting, multiple *POSSIBLE* birthdates for the same perp sometimes float around in the system.

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Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory...
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> I see there are lots of interesting discussions on economy recently > on this list. But I miss stuffs relating to the currently existing > crisis of the financial market, topics like causes of failure of > LTCM etc. etc. Haven't we discused the failures of Little Timmy C. May enough?

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17 Dec '03

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criticize....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I am creating a program about sparse matrix I am going to use different compression schemes used in building compilers. It is suppose to output a library wherein it support the compression scheme. It would either be used by C, Pascal, or FORTRAN whatever the user intends to use. Could you degrade or "upgrade" my said proposal (just say anything except nonsense of course). Thank you very much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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desperate....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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could you help.....
by Bernardo B. Terrado 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

I found this example in a book It's about Homophonic substitution and I can't figure how they did it , I mean how the other letters where substituted Here's the example Suppose the alphabet is mapped into the numbers 1 to 99 then map E to 17,19,23,47,64 map A to 8,20,25,49 map R to 1,29,65 map T to 16,31,85 but otherwise the ith letter maps to the 3ith letter Then the cleartext MANY A SLIP TWIXT THE CUP AND THE LIP will become 08 20 16 3185 17 25 16 47 3608397220543324451666246931852117066045253909162147332445 My question is what/how did they represent the other letters like L (etc.) coz I've tried to map them and yet I still can't understand I even wrote A to Z then map them to 1 to 99, I still can't figure it out. Could you also give me an example for polygram substitution. Thank you very much. SALAMAT PO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some people they might say that I'm hard to get to know. I go my own sweet way, well that maybe so. Something about the crowd that makes me walk alone. I never had a need in me to be the party's life and soul. It's me Bernie. metaphone(a)altavista.net ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

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