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IP: Falun Gong, the Internet revolution (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 21:46:12 -0400 From: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu To: ip-sub-1(a)majordomo.pobox.com Subject: IP: Falun Gong, the Internet revolution >From: jod(a)ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell) >To: farber(a)cis.upenn.edu (Dave Farber) >Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:32:16 -0400 (EDT) > > >Very interesting piece in the Times: > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/05/world/05FALU.html?pagewanted=all > >It reads like a chapter of *Neuromancer* at some points. > >Jim O'Donnell >Classics, U. of Penn >jod(a)ccat.sas.upenn.edu For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/

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ANN: TAZCon I, Sep. 1-Oct. 1, 2002 (fwd)
by Eugene Leitl 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 22:31:32 -0500 From: Jeff Bone <jbone(a)jump.net> To: fork(a)xent.com Subject: ANN: TAZCon I, Sep. 1-Oct. 1, 2002 NoNewswire, 7/4/2000, Austin, TX: This is the first public non-announcement of TAZCon I, a non-conference devoted to autonomy in all its interpretations. TAZCon I will *not* be hosted in Austin from Sep. 1-Oct. 1, 2002, and is *not* open to any who wish to participate. There are no events planned, but if there were they would consist of BOFs, parties, and other events organized around the following, and any other conceivable, topics: privacy, IP law, organizational strategies against strategic monopolies and corporatocracies / hegemonies, legal remedies, illegal remedies, insurrection, subversion of existing political systems, co-option of existing political systems, bloodless revolution, public nudity, masked society, transparent society, Lockeian property rights, the 1st amendment, the 2nd amendment, the 4th amendment, colorblind law, genderless law, technology and the law, anti-trust in a network-effects context, post-modern economics, semiotics, competitive poetry, the arts, ontological terrorism, piss Christ, anti-collectivism, Linux, Zope and other Python development, asynchronous event notification, DNS alternatives, private ownership of ABC weapons, gray goo scenarios and how to prevent them, the ethics of AI, the GPL and other Open Source licenses, tribalism and antitribalism, anarchy, libertarianism, freedom, fairness, M$ alternatives in corporate IS infrastructure, censor-free networking, the sociodynamics of P2P networking, free speech, anonymity, strong contracts, strong drink, non-coercive social frameworks, and just about anything else. Anyone wishing *not* to host a particular topic, RFP, discussion, BOF, think-n-drink, theme rave, live music act, or other interesting event need not apply. (Boring events will be considered and summarily discarded.) Regardless, please *do not* contact the author, as I have nothing at all to do with this odious non-event. We will *not* take over the city of Austin, TX, for a month next year. Promise. Do not pass this message along to anyone, period. Peace, Love, and Evil Smileys, jb http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork

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The Libertarian Approach to Contracts (eg GPS Speed Regulation)
by Jim Choate 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Why is there no mention in the contract of: - Providing the customer the data upon return to the shop for review - A dispute mechanism (heavily used I predict) - Why should the auto manufacturer know all the places I've been in their car, what if the locations are business sensitive - Can the rental agency sell that data to others - Is it ethical to sell the data to the drivers regular insurance carrier even though there is no indication that the behaviour in the rental auto is comparable to behaviour in their own car (I know lots of people who figure 'I paid the insurance and it ain't my car, what the hell') - And who arbitrates the dispute, clearly it shouldn't be the rental agency as they have a vested interest The typical Libertarian approach is to support whatever puts the primary service provider (Libertarians almost always use producer-consumer examples, why is that?) in the primary profit making position and the service consumer in the least protected position. The typical Libertarian figures that if you can make a buck of the sucker, then any failure or harm in the contract by the provider is the dumb blind luck of the consumer. The concept of 'fair' is a pretty rare concept for most Libertarians. Then again, what is 'fair'? (Being a Pantheist the concept of 'absolute right/wrong' is foreign to me, only within the concept of human psychology and a specific social milieu is it definable) -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Why Auto-GPS speed regulation is doomed to fail
by Jim Choate 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Find the blue or black wire and pull the fuse. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Textual "Child Porn" Conviction in Ohio
by Eric Cordian 05 Jul '01

05 Jul '01

Here's some more screwing around with the First Amendment from our friends in the great state of Ohio. Ohio, as you may recall, brought us the Supreme Court decision permitting state laws to call anything they like "child porn," including mere nudity and mere text. It also brought us the Mapplethorpe Trial, the "Salo" gay bookstore arrest, the Larry Flynt trial, and served as the birthplace of the National Coalition Against Pornography. Now Ohio is again at the forefront of blue-nosed preoccupation with private conduct in the home. In a case the prosecutor calls a "breakthrough" in the war against child pornography, a Columbus man pleaded guilty to a single charge of pandering child pornography and got a 10 year prison sentence. His only crime was writing words in a personal journal, which he never showed to anyone, and which was discovered during a routine search of his home. Had he gone to trial and lost, he would have faced a 16 year prison sentence. The law in question makes it illegal to "create, reproduce, or publish any obscene material that has a minor as one of its participants or portrayed observers." Apparently, in Ohio, it's even illegal to write about a minor watching someone else have sex. I believe this to be the first successful US child porn prosecution for purely textual material created for private use. Civil Libertarians are, of course, unamused. I wonder how many of them have the balls to say so publicly, and risk getting labeled as supporting the sexual abuse of children. My guess is that the ACLU will keep silent on this one, and stick with defending the right of Jewish children not to be frightened by Santa. http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/july01/755632.html ----- Brian Dalton wrote fictitious tales of sexually abusing and torturing children in his private journal, intending that no one else see them, he said. But when his probation officer found the journal during a routine search of Dalton's Columbus home, prosecutors charged him with pandering obscenity involving a minor. In Franklin County Common Pleas Court yesterday, the 22-year-old man's written words cost him 10 years in prison. The case worries civil-rights lawyer Benson Wolman, who said it has free-speech implications. "What you're saying is somebody can't, in essence, confess their fantasy into a personal journal for fear they have socially unacceptable fantasies, then ultimately they end up getting prosecuted,'' said Wolman, former director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Ohio. "This is the only case that I know of where we are talking about a journal -- just written words. It surprises and offends me that an action should be brought based on a journal.'' But Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien called the case a "breakthrough'' in the battle against child pornography. The journal came to light earlier this year when a probation officer discovered it during the search. Dalton was on probation from a 1998 pandering conviction involving photographs of child pornography. The journal contains the names and ages -- 10 and 11 -- of three children who had been placed in a cage in a basement. It details how the children were sexually molested and tortured. At first, police were concerned the accounts were real, prosecutors said. However, Dalton told authorities they were fictitious, and there was no evidence to the contrary, Assistant Prosecutor Christian Domis said. The 14-page journal was presented to a grand jury. The contents were so disturbing that jurors asked a detective to stop reading after about two pages, Domis said. "It was seriously the most disturbing thing I ever read,'' Domis said. "There was a woman on the grand jury who was crying.'' Domis said most pandering cases in Franklin County involve photographs of child pornography. "This is one of the first felony cases in Franklin County that involves the written word -- a writing somebody created on their own,'' he said. "Even without passing it on to anyone else, he committed a felony.'' The Feb. 23 indictment alleges that Dalton "did create, reproduce or publish any obscene material that has a minor as one of its participants or portrayed observers.'' Wolman said he cannot recall an obscenity case involving "mere words that were not disseminated.'' "It is just this kind of thing, I think, that is a misapplication of what the law intends,'' he said. But because Dalton pleaded guilty to the pandering charge, he cannot appeal the conviction or 10- year sentence -- seven for the pandering charge and three for violating probation. In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors withdrew a second pandering charge. He would have faced 16 years if convicted of both. "The law hasn't really been challenged and he would have had the opportunity to do that,'' defense attorney Isabella Dixon said. "But the cost to him is a lot of time in jail to challenge it.'' At yesterday's sentencing, Dalton told Judge Nodine Miller: "I know what I wrote was disturbing. "Over the past few months, I looked back at it and realized it was not something I could do. I don't know how I imagined to write anything like that.'' -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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Re: Another problem with 'automated enforcement'
by David Honig 04 Jul '01

04 Jul '01

At 05:43 PM 7/3/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: >How do you call a video camera to the stand to give their deposition as >to the situation in which the photo was taken? Same way you query a radar 'gun' about the speed you were ticketed for. Calibration, for instance.

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A quote I love...
by Jim Choate 04 Jul '01

04 Jul '01

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