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Fear and Trembling.
by mattd 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

>>At 09:53 PM 12/27/01 -0800, John Young wrote: >Targets for centers of these exports are not hard to >identify, After the WTC, the only truly theatrically worth it encore I can think of is a stinger at the space shuttle. This would not trepan the serpent but would kick the angst up a notch. Then again, there's always Utah...<< Talk about a target rich environment! They tip their hand by pulling the juiciest targets off the web.(To late!) Nuclear targets available on Blacknet,freenet and all the wildnets. The way to retreat to win is cut the shebang down the middle or break it into 5 regions ala TM.Wisdom of Insecurity.Decentralised minarchist govt as described in AP essay.and...http://world.std.com/~mhuben/cypher.html Assassination Politics. "Armoring" the shell with Vartherland Defense and letting paranoid police/stormtroopers run riot is bringing on chaos and catastrophic collapse. Lets all stop kidding ourselves.The last empires going down and the best things to give it a nudge.Start mapping the busiest nodes of US Imperialist power.Cheney and Armitage,creatures like that,that are heavily networked.In culture you could wack out the scientologists,the fallwels and limbaughs,all those Haven fucken' Hamiltons.Dont be shy about their secondaries either.They cant operate without support.List the pricks,start with a few dead ones like JEHoover and so on then get set to start crossing off the new names.All federal employees got fair warning.They are legitimate targets. A nuremburg website for all the latter day goebbal's,speer's,goering's,hess's,canaris's,Krupp's,liefenstahl's,eichmann's,etc.All crap corporate media heads.Yeah! CRyptome can do it.With all the mirrors now,your *safe.*There's no way in hell this arbusto e neumann presidents going to last out his term.Its true its not just the state,we all seem to agree,here on the evils of the state but it IS time the other authoritarian hierarchies got equal time.Time to die.We're all on a runaway train so its time for Rankin to make his move. Y'Hear me Rankin! COME ON DOWN! Mannie.

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28 Dec '01

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ADV/ NEVER WORRY ABOUT MONEY AGAIN!!! PLEASE READ.
by happyfree20＠hotmail.com 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

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There is NO LIMIT to the income you can >>> >>>generate from this business!!! >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>FOLLOWING IS A NOTE FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS PROGRAM: You >>> >>>have just received information that can give you financial >>> >>>freedom for the rest of your life, with NO RISK and JUST A >>> >>>LITTLE BIT OF EFFORT. You can make more money in the next >>> >>>few weeks and months than you have ever imagined. Follow the >>> >>>program EXACTLY AS INSTRUCTED. Do Not change it in any way. >>> >>>It works exceedingly well as it is now. >>> >>> >>> >>>Remember to e-mail a copy of this exciting report after you >>> >>>have put your name and address in Report#1 and moved others >>> >>>to #2 thru #5 as instructed above. One of the people you >>> >>>send this to may send out 100,000 or more e-mails and your >>> >>>name will be on every one of them. Remember though, the >>> >>>more YOU send out the more potential customers you will >>> >>>reach. So my friend, I have given you the ideas, >>> >>>information, materials and opportunity to become financially >>> >>>independent. IT IS UP TO YOU NOW! >>> >>> >>> >>>=================== MORE TESTIMONIALS============= >>> >>> >>> >>>"My name is Mitchell. My wife, Jody and I live in Chicago. I >>> >>>am an accountant with a major U.S. Corporation and I make >>> >>>pretty good money. When I received this program I grumbled >>> >>>to Jody about receiving "junk mail". I made fun of the whole >>> >>>thing, spouting my knowledge of the population and >>> >>>percentages involved. I "knew" it wouldn't work. Jody >>> >>>totally ignored my supposed intelligence and few days later >>> >>>she jumped in with both feet. I made merciless fun of her, >>> >>>and was ready to lay the old "I told you so" on her when the >>> >>>thing didn't work. Well, the laugh was on me! Within 3 weeks >>> >>>she had received 50 responses. Within the next 45 days she >>> >>>had received total $ 147,200.00....all cash! I was shocked. >>> >>>I have joined Jody in her "hobby". >>> >>> >>> >>>Mitchell Wolf M.D., Chicago, Illinois >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>"Not being the gambling type, it took me several weeks to >>> >>>make up my mind to participate in this plan. But >>> >>>conservative that I am, I decided that the initial >>> >>>investment was so little that there was just no way that I >>> >>>wouldn't get enough orders to at least get my money back". >>> >>>"I was surprised when I found my medium size post office box >>> >>>crammed with orders. I made $319,210.00 in the first 12 >>> >>>weeks. The nice thing about this deal is that it does not >>> >>>matter where people live. There simply isn't a better >>> >>>investment with a faster return and so big". >>> >>> >>> >>>Dan Sondstrom, Alberta, Canada >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>"I had received this program before. I deleted it, but later >>> >>>I wondered if I should have given it a try. Of course, I had >>> >>>no idea who to contact to get another copy, so I had to wait >>> >>>until I was e-mailed again by someone else......11 months >>> >>>passed then it luckily came again...... I did not delete >>> >>>this one! I made more than $490,000 on my first try and all >>> >>>the money came within 22 weeks". >>> >>> >>> >>>Susan De Suza, New York, N.Y >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>"It really is a great opportunity to make relatively easy >>> >>>money with little cost to you. I followed the simple >>> >>>instructions carefully and within 10 days the money started >>> >>>to come in. My first month I made $20, 560.00 and by the >>> >>>end of third month my total cash count was $362,840.00. Life >>> >>>is beautiful, Thanx to internet". >>> >>> >>> >>>Fred Dellaca, Westport, New Zealand >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>ORDER YOUR REPORTS TODAY AND GET STARTED ON YOUR ROAD TO >>> >>>FINANCIAL FREEDOM! >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>If you have any questions of the legality of this program, >>> >>>contact the Office of Associate Director for Marketing >>> >>>Practices, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer >>> >>>Protection, Washington,D.C. >>> >>> >>> >>>=================================================== >>> >>> >>> >>>THIS IS A ONE-TIME MAILING, THEREFORE NO REQUEST FOR REMOVAL >>> >>>IS REQUIRED. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >

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Tim May;Crypto-Fascist,Arabist and Commiesymp.(Quotes Pravda.).
by mattd 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

May,the famous crypto-fascist,(leftists AND rightists agree on that) pontificates about "Ontology".More obscurantist nonsense from the CIA agent,you have,when your not having CIA agents?Who evers got the jackboot on he will lick it. Ontological Arguments ... A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Ontological Arguments. ... History of Ontological Arguments. ... Description: Ontological arguments are arguments, for the conclusion that God exists, from premises which are... Category: Society > Philosophy > Philosophy of Religion plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/ - 29k - Cached - Similar pages The West Vs Islam? or Monotheism Vs sanity? May will muddy the water,dont worry.He likes.. Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy The Writings of Hakim Bey. ... Writings as Peter Lamborn Wilson. Media Creed For The Fin De Siecle; ... Description: Numerous works of Bey and PL Wilson, plus biographical information. Category: Society > Religion and Spirituality > ... > Personalities > Hakim Bey www.hermetic.com/bey/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages Picked up some real BS here.For an antidote read Zerzan on Bey at. http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/pmanarchist.htm This is great resource for real crypto-anarchists,Tim may spit chips if you quote from this...http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/dear.htm The Social Ideology of the Motorcar Andri Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don't have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated, and frustrated in return.(Cont)

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Condensed matter physics and BUM
by mattd 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

http://www.globalideasbank.org/showidea.php?idea=2574 Wealth distribution is a law of nature submitted by: Institute for Social Inventions Summarised from an article by Mark Buchanan, entitled 'That's The Way Money Goes', in New Scientist (August 19th 2000; New Scientist subs #97 or $140, tel 44 [0] 1622 778000). Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Marc Mezard, two French econophysicists, believe that wealth falling into the hands of a minority is not just a fact of life, but a law of nature. They have discovered a connection between the physics of materials and the movements of money, a link that could revolutionise the way we think about the distribution of wealth in society. It could also provide a mathematical basis to theories of free trade and competition.(cont at URL above) I hope they're close by to study the day my BUM went psycho.(Barter Units of Money.Im 9k an hour btw.) Breaking news...BUMble Bee...handicap leader of Sydney to Hobart...missed throwing larry into twister...Over...

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CommieSymp jamesd Alert.Code RED.
by mattd 27 Dec '01

27 Dec '01

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/felkins10.html Real anarchists found at http://www.free-market.net/news/ this was from a link at http://www.libertarian.org/ found here...http://www.jim.com/world.html jamesd is a commiesymp.pass it on.( My review of Abel Paz's book."Durrutti,the people armed" is up at Amazon.j.) "Anarchy, USA 1966 This documentary presents the civil rights movement as a part of the communist plan for world domination. "God why didn't we go with cyber-liberty? Why? Why? Why?

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Explosive smuggling
by Anonymous 27 Dec '01

27 Dec '01

>> A good plastic (haha) surgeon might be able to implant 10lbs or more, easily enough to bring down a plane. Breast implants would be the obvious place to put it, because they certainly can't open up every woman who wants to get on a plane with "augmentation" so what can you do? << 10 lbs can do a *lot* more than take down a plane, which is very easy when its in flight at high altitude. It takes a few weeks to heal from abdomen surgery that could be done in a field hospital. How to sleep without rolling over on the lump which is the activator is the tough part. Breasts are amusing locations, but Al Q doesn't use chicks (yet) and its not easy to get them to look right. (Admittedly, get an ugly chick and not many will check for symmetry etc.) PETN Flavored Gatorade: Is it in you?

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The mattblog that ate Cypherpunks
by mattd 27 Dec '01

27 Dec '01

A novel metaphor called Scopeware, software that automatically arranges your computer files in chronological order and displays them on your monitor with the most recent files featured prominently in the foreground. Scopeware is far more sweeping than a simple rearrangement of icons, however: in effect, it transfers the role of file clerk from you to the computer, seamlessly ordering documents of all sorts into convenient, time-stamped files. If you have ever forgotten what you named a file or which folder you put it in, you probably will agree that it's time for a change. The desktop metaphor is decades old, arising from early-1970s work at Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center, and was never intended to address today's computing needs. Indeed, the product that brought the metaphor to mass-market attention was Apple Computer's 1984 Macintosh; it had no built-in hard drive, and its floppy disks each stored only 400 kilobytes of information. Today we're using the same metaphor to manage the countless files on our ever more capacious hard drives, as well as to access the virtually limitless information on the Web. The result? Big, messy hierarchies of folders. Favorites lists where you never find anything again. Pull-down menus too long to make sense of. In other words, the desktop metaphor puts the onus on our brains to juggle this expanding collection of files, folders and lists. Yet "our neurons do not fire faster, our memory doesn't increase in capacity and we do not learn to think faster as time progresses," notes Bill Buxton, chief scientist of Alias/Wavefront, a leading maker of graphic-design tools. Buxton argues that without better tools to exploit the immense processing power of today's computers, that power is not much good to us. That's why many researchersat universities and startups like Gelernter's Mirror Worlds as well as giants like Microsoft and IBMare searching for alternatives. They're examining metaphors taken from other media, such as books or diaries or film; 3-D schemes that use our sense of spatial orientation to create the illusion of depth on-screen, so that documents look closer or farther away depending on their importance to us; alternatives that borrow from video games the notion of having an intelligent guide, or avatar, to help us find what we're looking for; or even theories that radically change the notion of what a "computer" is, so that we no longer think of devices as computers at all and are therefore open to new ways of interacting with them. "The desktop metaphor made assumptions about how we use computers that just aren't true anymore," asserts Don Norman, cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, famed critic of computer design and author of The Design of Everyday Things. "It's time to throw away the old model." Learning Esperanto Cont at http://www.unifr.ch/econophysics/

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Our friends from SIMULACRON 3
by mattd 27 Dec '01

27 Dec '01

What about Simulacron 3? I haven't read this book but am concerned about the fact that it's being given credit for inventing cyberspace. What about Simulacron 3 by Daniel F. Galouye? It was written in 1964 and is all about that virtual world we call "cyberspace." (Simulacron 3 is no longer in print and is difficult to find but it's worth the read). Enders Game is a very harsh and brash book. It shows the journey of one child from being a sheepish little schoolboy that is tormented by his sadistic brother and pampered by his caring sister, to becoming a ruthless soldier that is focused on ridding the universe of the buggers (An insectoid alien race controlled by a hive mind). This book will leave you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. (would also make an excellent movie).Xenocide. The Assassination Bureau (1968) Synopsis: A caper comedy, inspired by the book "The Assassination Bureau Limited," co-written by adventure novelist, Jack London. Oliver Reed plays Ivan Dragomiloff, the head of an organization, started by his late father, which assassinates political figures, on assignment. When Miss Winter, an intrepid, liberal, female reporter offers him the challenge of assigning his own execution, Ivan sees it as a golden opportunity to find out just how competent his international staff really is, and accepts. A mad chase throughout Europe is the result, with Miss Winter following Ivan's every move.(Miss Winter,very strict.) Cities of the red night; The paradox of a post-modern classic... If someone didn't know better, _Cities of the Red Night_ might come across as a simplistic homosexual pornographic pulp space-opera, Mappelthorpe meets Edgar Rice Burroughs. The interwoven plot lines (homosexual pirate communes? a psychic private detective? an invading radioactive mutant virus?) come across as emotionally distant and vacuous, borrowed from pulp novels and used as a simple excuse for episodes of vivid sci-fi imagery and descriptions of boys with erections. While interesting, they don't seem to be the work of genius touted on the front cover. In the end, however, this book is hopeful and passionate, complex and absolutely unique. Burroughs is trying to both conjure up the conditions for a perfect utopia, a world free of all interference and control, as well as give a mythic explanation for the horrifying state of existence. Burroughs is trying to save us, explain us, destroy us, free us. This isn't apparent until after the plots have crashed together and shattered apart in an end which has absolutely nothing to do with what has come before, while also explaining everything...

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Crypto Cock rings for a circle of eunuches.
by mattd 27 Dec '01

27 Dec '01

Due to the unfortunate legal position you may find yrself in should you not stop when requested to do so during coitus, Proffr promotions is pleased to announce exploding cockring control.A plastic rubber compound slips onto the base of the penis,with a hair trigger explosive directed charge you better climb off before you get blown off. Proffr is also franchising Hooters and Buda-Bing strip clubs down under.Anarcho-capitalism Rulez! jya>>Beheading the centers of information warfare would be the end of Western culture.<< What did Ghandi say about Western culture? That it sounded like a good idea? If you want to psychologically adjust read some green anarchy/primitivist stuff."For the end of civilization" On this day or thereabouts...1763 -- A troop of 50 armed men enter the Workhouse at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, & hatchet to death the only 14 surviving Conestoga Indians (the rest of the tribe having been similarly dispensed with 13 days ago). Having finished their work, the troop, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, "huzzahed in triumph as if it had gained a victory, & rode off unmolested."

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