February 2004 - cypherpunks-legacy

The Liberty Dollar
by Gary Jeffers 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

My fellow Cypherpunks, The Liberty Dollar My fellow Cypherpunks, I think I may have some really great news here, but you all can check it out to be sure. I found an alternative money on the Internet. It is called the Liberty Dollar. The Internet site is: http://www.norfed.org NORFED is The National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code. The money is backed by silver and gold and can be redeemed widely in America. As many of you know, the $US is a corrupt, proprietary, debt issued, fait, fractional reserved,illegal, unconstituional, U. S. State enforced monopoly currency. As corrupt as it is I don't know why it hasn't already collasped and dragged us down with it! If the Liberty Dollar is honest and robust, then it may be the vehical to beat the elite bankers tyranny and give us an honest wealth produced money. Yours Truly, Gary Jeffers BEAT STATE !!!!

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RE: Cypherpunks IQ Test
by Aimee Farr 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Mike: Are you often the victim of mercenary females? > -----Original Message----- > From: mmotyka(a)lsil.com [mailto:mmotyka@lsil.com] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 3:28 PM > To: aimee.farr(a)pobox.com > Subject: Cypherpunks IQ Test > > > It's an obvious setup. The woods are part of a defense installation, > apple is filled with coke, the girl is underage, the woods are full of > trigger happy fibbies. > > You hit the ground and roll into the brush, drawing on the way. You > attempt to locate opponents and identify the safest route away from the > situation. > > Mike > > > >CYPHERPUNKS IQ TEST > > > >QUESTION #1. > > > >You are walking through the woods alone. A beautiful unclothed woman > >magically appears in front of you. She holds out an apple. > > > >1. Please darken in the correct choice using a Number Two pencil: > > > >(a) you bite the apple. > >(b) you take the woman. > >(c) you run away. > >(d) a and b, but not c. > >(e) b and c only. > >(f) all of the above. > >(g) none of the above. > > > >2. Please justify your answer: > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________. > > > > > >Just curious.... > > > > -Aimee

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More on "new physics"
by Tim May 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Someone sent me a private note. I have deleted his name for this public reply. > Tim May wrote: > > >> The "new physics" stuff is quite different. It is scorned in a way >> that plate tectonics was not, and for good reason. Folks should visit >> Bearden's site. http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/index.html > > I did. Oh, dear. > > Not sure what is supposed to be denoted by "Tesla physics", but Tesla's > work with power transmission via HF is fascinating, even if there was > apparently no practical or safe use for it. No one disputes the outstanding work Tesla did on a.c. transmission. And anyone who has seen or used a Tesla coil knows how real it is. "Tesla physics" is all the cruft that has developed around some of his more obscure (and late) writings, usually mixed together with stuff Tesla could not have known about at the time of his death. To wit, the stuff about zero point energy and perpetual motion machines. And, sometimes, mixed together with the usual nutcase stuff about the Hollow Earth theory (zeta reticulans colonizing the hollow earth, Greys, underground UFO bases, secret Nazi weapons, etc.). Tesla is a hero to these "new physics" nuts, even though nothing Tesla ever worked on or built contradicts in the slightest way the predictions of Maxwell's theories. They take Tesla's very real contributions and some of his weirder theories (though none of them so weird as the Hollow Earth/antigravity/time reversal theories of modern nutters) and say that this means "They laughed at Tesla, they laugh at me!" BTW, I was/am an early ("angel") investor in a company doing work on ultrawideband transmissions. Some of the works Bearden cites, like those of Barrett, are familiar to me and others with this company. Saying that there is a role for ultrawideband pulse technology, a la spread spectrum and beyond SS, is NOT the same as saying there are confirmed "problems" with electromagnetic theory. There may be, and there are a handful of folks doing "foundational" work in E&M, but, so far, there are no indications that their foundational work is changing any engineering calculations. Quite the contrary, in my view. Electromagnetic theory basically "works"--to many decimal places of accuracy. Circuits work as expected, antennas work as expected, and there are no "unexplained observations" (as usually exist before a new theory arrives). There may be some _semantic_ issues, e.g., does a square wave or impulse "really" have components that were sent out _before_ the square wave or impulse? (A Fourier decomposition of a square wave starting at time t = 0 has "sine wave components" spread out over time and adding up in such a way as to give the square wave, or the impulse, or any other signal. Some think this means deep and mysterious things are happening, something having to do with time travel and reversing the aging process, blah blah blah. Henning Harmuth may write fairly eloquently about the "dogma of the circle" and how the Fourier decomposition of a signal into (allegedly) a near-infinite series of sine waves is "not real," but for all intents and purposes it all works. And the "new physics" people like Bearden go way beyond what Harmuth and Barrett are talking about: they bring in "curved space-time" and gravitation and antigravity and the ultra-weird notion that aging can be reversed by "pumping the conjugate time-axis of the Minkowski manifold" (OK, I made this up...don't have time to lift one of Bearden's direct quotes...and this will help train me in the jargon if I ever become a "new physicist."). Nut cases like Bearden have the patter of physics down. Very few actual physicists waste their time dissecting and refuting Bearden for obvious reasons. I urge readers of this list not to waste time on this stuff. --Tim May, Citizen-unit of of the once free United States " The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. "--Thomas Jefferson, 1787

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Re: A Trial Balloon to Ban Email?
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

At 09:57 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote: >Yes, but how will you stop the spammer from double spending the same $0.25 >micropayment on all of his 170,000 email addresses? Depending on whether >you check that there is a payment attached or not, and also check it with >the bank before delivering it, you'd have already wasted your bandwith and >possibly have accepted a spam into your mail spool. It is true that the notions of micropayments as applied to spam (that I'm familiar with, at least) would require that the email recipient check with the bank to detect doublespending. This would introduce an additional delay before delivery from unknown senders, yes, but I fail to see how it would impose an unacceptable cost in bandwidth or CPU usage. Spammers could still try the same-micropayment-a-million-times route, just as they could try to spam without micropayments, but if their email is rejected in sufficient quantities, the cost to the spammer would outweigh the benefits. The key is achieving sufficient quantities. -Declan

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Re: AP Al Qaeda
by mattd 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>>No, no. AP is funny because it's impracticeable. One does not find an assassin exclusively by tracing who paid him to kill. One can (and often does) find him because he makes a mistake in the act of commiting the crime. Which, if I'm >>reading my history right, is what's hampered the noisy proponents of AP up to this point already. Crime? Wot crime,guvnor? Jim and CJ were not 'noisy'.imo. Im a bit noisy cos Im pushing the 'let it all hang out' version. >The point is that Bell's theory does a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination,...< Oh THATS funny.I get it. HAHAHA! >>Killing one person, especially a public official, pisses a whole bunch of people off. Those people have a tendency to come find their buddy's killer. Mmm,where do we start,lets get some firebrands and go up to the proffrs? Look at sites with no logs for quad anon 'predictors' who may be overseas briefly visiting cybercafes,Good luck china.(you just contradicted yrself btw.) Oh,unless you mean the torture/french village reprisal thang.Win friends and influence people. The one person killed will have had to have done a lot of evil shit to get enough pooled (presumably) to tempt a seasoned pro.Unless some professional killer turns all altruistic,stranger things have happened.The killer could be suicidal.another possibility.Lots of scenarios possible here,movie scripts,even.Pop songs,video games.DoCoMo assasinphones. Someone like a torturer,murderer,terrorist,pedophile is a logical candidate.(stephen roach?)Sometimes these happen to be public officials.Theres one here where I live named dennis Tanner.(vic.au) Those killers by remote control like arbusto might be be made more accountable. What better way than...Bell's theory, "a really good job of sorting out the business end of assassination"according to you. KILL THE PRESIDENT! "Id buy that for a dollar!" >>No kind of real or threatened assassination can weaken a government in which a majority of the governed people >believe. It can only make it seem more righteous and be more strong. Thats true,roll over and go back to sleep,if you live under that govt you have nothing to worry about. More righteous and more smug.

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[Lucrative-L] double spends, identity agnosticism, and Lucrative
by R. A. Hettinga 20 May '05

20 May '05

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Gentlemen reading mail part II
by Major Variola (ret.) 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Blix says US spied on him over Iraq Reuters London Feb 28: Former chief United Nations weapons inspector Mr Hans Blix said today he suspected the United States bugged his office and home in the run-up to the Iraq war, but had no hard evidence. Describing such behaviour as disgusting, Mr Blix told Britains Guardian newspaper in an interview: It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. His allegation came on top of a diplomatic row sparked this week when former British minister Ms Clare Short said Britain bugged UN Secretary General Mr Kofi Annans office as London and Washington tried but failed to win UN backing to invade Iraq. Mr Blix said his suspicions were raised when he had trouble with a telephone connection at home. It might have been something trivial or it might have been something installed somewhere, I dont know, he said. The Swede said he asked UN counter-surveillance teams to check his office and home for listening devices. If you had something sensitive to talk about you would go out into the restaurant or out into the streets, said Mr Blix. He said US state department envoy Mr John Wolf visited him two weeks before the Iraq war with pictures of an Iraqi drone and a cluster bomb that the former inspector believed could have been secured only from within the UN weapons office. He should not have had them. I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me, Mr Blix said. It could have been some staff belonging to us that handed them to the Americans... It could also be that they managed to break into the secure fax and got it that way, he said. Ms Short, in government before and during the Iraq war, said on Thursday she had seen transcripts of what she said were bugged accounts of Mr Annans conversations. She resigned after the war. The British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair accused her of being irresponsible and of undermining intelligence services at a time when Britain faced a threat of attack from Islamic militants. Blair said British security services acted within domestic and international law. But UN spokesman Mr Fred Eckhard said Mr Annan would seek a fuller explanation from Britain on the allegations, saying any attempt to eavesdrop on the Secretary General was illegal and should stop as it would violate three international treaties. Mr Blair warned critics like Ms Short that unless they buried differences they risked ousting his Labour Party from power as it prepares to fight a general election expected in 2005. Former UN secretary-general Mr Boutros Boutros-Ghali and another former chief UN weapons inspector, Mr Richard Butler, said yesterday they believed they had been spied on. From the first day I entered my office they told me: beware, your office is bugged, your residence is bugged, Mr Boutros-Ghali told the BBC. It is a tradition that member states that have the technical capacity to bug will do it without hesitation, he said. http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=022910

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Online Anonymity May Fade
by R. A. Hettinga 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

<http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=reutersEdge&storyID=…> Reuters Online Anonymity May Fade Wed Feb 25, 2004 04:18 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online profiling in which consumers' names and addresses are connected to their Internet habits could be in the works as consumers begin to trust the Web more, Kevin Ryan, the chief executive of Internet advertiser DoubleClick, said on Wednesday. "There will be more targeting using this with customers having the ability to opt out," Ryan told the Reuters Technology Media and Telecommunications Summit in New York. While DoubleClick has no immediate plans to link data on specific Internet users to their online behavior at this time, it may come down the road, he said. Ryan suggested that privacy concerns have eased over the years, similar to how many people have relaxed about using their credit cards online. While people don't think twice now about using their credit cards for online purchases, polls showed that Internet users in the late 1990s were more afraid of fraud, he said. "I said the same thing many, many years ago, that I thought privacy concerns would follow the credit card fraud concerns," he said. "What happened was the actual risk wasn't that great. In fact, people started to realize that nothing is 100 percent safe ever." In the early years of Internet advertising, DoubleClick was the subject of several probes into its potential use of information gleaned about Internet users from "cookies" -- small pieces of software that keep track of what Web sites they visit. DoubleClick's 1999 acquisition of direct marketer Abacus Direct was of particular concern for consumer groups worried about corporate abuse of customer profiling. It provided DoubleClick with the ability to combine data such as a person's name and address with information on the Web sites they visit and items they purchase. The company agreed to keep those lines of information separate to address privacy concerns. Abacus maintains a cooperative database that catalog companies and publishers contribute information to about their customers, such as names, addresses and purchase information. The data is collected by household, not individuals, the DoubleClick Web site says. At the time of the merger, the market was not ready for sophisticated targeting tools, Ryan said. "Businesswise, we felt like it didn't make sense to link" those different types of consumer data, he added. Now, the market is "starting to kick in" to make such applications worthwhile for advertisers, according to Ryan. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: Gentlemen reading mail part II
by Major Variola (ret) 29 Feb '04

29 Feb '04

At 09:16 PM 2/29/04 -0500, Steve Furlong wrote: >On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:19, Major Variola (ret.) forwarded: >> Blix says US spied on him over Iraq >> ... >> It feels like an intrusion into >> your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side. > >Begging the question of whether Blix was actually on the same side as >the Brits or the US. Hans is either being coy or naif. Of course he wasn't on our side; he was after the facts, not revenge, or colonialism. One wonders about the mindset of the UN folks. Don't they realize they are 0wn3d? Or at least herded? Perhaps I underestimate the human capacity for idealism, or gullibility. In any case, it should be clear why the US 'tolerates' the UN and planted its HQ in NYC. A fine source of PR sometimes, and a good source of intel other times. Rather tough for the UN counterintel force I imagine. PS: what's the price of gas masks in Athens these days? ----- BWM says interplanetary roadside assistance is "dodgy", but lets see them do a firmware update to a dead car a few hundred million miles away.

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Authentic Journalism -- help end predatory drug policies...
by Tim Meehan 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=andrewgrice%40authenticjournalism.or… Letter from Tim Meehan of Pot TV Dear Friends of Authentic Journalism: We're at a very unique and special time in the history of our planet: Voices of marginalized peoples are now on the same level of those called on by the establishment media, thanks to the Internet. With that in mind, I hope you will carefully consider a donation to the Fund for Authentic Journalism. Many of you already know of the good work of Al Giordano and the journalists at Narconews.com. Chronicling the drug war, from somewhere in a country called Amirica, Al and his colleagues bring the voice of the people directly affected by predatory drug and national policies to an unprecedented world audience. Last year, Narco News took the initiative to establish the School for Authentic Journalism to educate people about reporting on the effects of the Narco-Industrial Complex -- in several languages -- at a local level and especially in Latin America, where the battle is fiercest. Widely considered the fresh battleground between predatory governmental policies and sane drug policy, the nations of Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru, among others, have been struggling to find their path. The peoples of those nations will pursue a rational policy when it comes to the drug trade, but only if they are given unbiased, truthful, and complete information. When it comes to reporting on drug wars from around the world, the importance of this work cannot be understated. For example, we here in Canada have noticed the difference that Authentic Journalism has made in the shaping our national debate around cannabis legalization. As Authentic Journalist Richard Cowan of marijuananews.com and pot-tv.net has pointed out, "We are too White to invade, and too close to ignore," and our voices are having a considerable impact on the story of our struggle in the United States. Often times our voices are not welcomed by U.S. interests, but fortunately, we have the backing of interested philanthropists who fund and facilitate (on a limited level) the telling of our stories. Many poorer nations, unfortunately, do not have this support, often times simply because they happen to be of a different race, language, or nationality. This is why it is so important to ask for your donation to help support the voices of people across Amirica. If you're not convinced yet, it helps if you look at the international narco-industrial complex as a machine. Predatory governments depend on this narco-industrial machine for their income and prosperity. Their agenda is raw power and money. Establishment media (some of them in a perverse symbiotic relationship with these same predatory governments) often feign concern for certain aspects of the machine's operation. Perhaps the control panel is designed improperly, or maybe the operators are improperly trained in efficient operation. However, they ultimately ignore stories damaging to the government's agenda, and by extension, theirs. People that speak out, saying that this machine has no place in society, are ignored because it threatens their access and power. Authentic Journalists, on the other hand, look at the wiring of the machine, look at where the power source is coming in, look at who benefits from the existence of the machine in the first place, and expose these truths -- as well as a way to cut the power off. Authentic Journalists have an agenda too -- make no mistake about it. Their agenda is truth. The Internet has changed the rules of engagement in the battle for ideas. While this may be obvious to those like myself, who have followed its progression from text-based to graphical interfaces, and to today with it's entrenchment into American and Canadian society, it helps have a historical perspective on things. Part of the problem with asking funding for these projects may simply be because of the lack of realization by donors that were are ahead of the curve. So I'll ask you now to make a contribution to The Fund for Authentic Journalism, specifically to train beginning journalists and journalism students at next summer's School of Authentic Journalism session, via this PayPal Link: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=andrewgrice%40authenticjournalism.or… Or you can send a check to: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 71051 Madison Heights, MI 48071 USA And if you'd like to acknowledge this letter - an example of mutual aid among independent media - as inspiring your donation, please write "Tim Meehan Letter" on the envelope. All funds received in direct response to this letter by midnight March 18, 2004, will help determine how many scholarships in Authentic Journalism that Narco News can offer this year. Sir Authur C. Clarke came up with the idea of geosynchronous orbit for communication satellites almost twenty years before they became a reality. Marshall McLuhan prophesied the world wide web's global village in the 1960s, and it came to fruition almost fourteen years after his death in 1980. Ultimately, any donation to a cause like ours is a gamble on future. We truly believe Authentic Journalism will change the world, and we sincerely believe we will meet your expectations -- and then some. I hope we can count on your support. Sincerely, Tim Meehan POT-TV News Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis Toronto, Ontario, Canada tim.meehan(a)utoronto.ca / tim(a)ocsarc.org Email Link to Give Funds Online for the Tim Meehan Letter on behalf of the School of Authentic Journalism: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=andrewgrice%40authenticjournalism.or…

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