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Moral Legitimacy (was Child Molester Prevention)
by Blanc 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Glenn Hauman quoted: >"But this relationship depends on the secular Left-liberals cooperating, by >also making children a transcendental category. That they have done so has >less to do with the welfare of children than with a restless search by >these elites for a source of moral legitimacy to shore up their managerial >foundations." ............................................................ a restless search.....for a source.... of moral legitimacy.... I am moved to preach to the Choir, for this struck me as a significant series of words to remember. (There have been many posts lately to which I wanted to comment, but I'm restraining myself to this one.) . Some people search within the U.S. Constitution or Declaration of Independence, for moral legitimacy to their political stands. Some efforts for moral legitimacy are from people who feel left out and need (desperately) to find a place for themselves within a social/political context. Ex: "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [...] are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights..." i.e., with certain qualities which in reality make them, therefore, no less significant politically than any who would presume to be above them. Some efforts seem hypocritical, appearing to be attempts at creating the image (illusion) of being founded, similar to the concepts of Natural Rights, upon something unquestionable or inalienable, yet upon closer examination resembling less the endowments of a Superior Creator than of certain psychological desires of regular Human Beings. Differentiating between Deific Origins and other Sources: the concept of being endowed with qualities like "inalienable Rights" leads one to think that one (any individual) has within them the justification for standing separately from, and acting independently of, the absolute hold of a "ruler" of a whole group of people. Contrast that with concepts which lead one to forego the idea of oneself as their own person, substituting instead the image of being situated in a hospital, where everyone is the equivalent of a patient and all are cared for by an Official Nurse who looks after their best interest. All officially justifiable and legitimate investments within this domain are identified not by reference to innate strengths which anyone might find within themselves, but instead are categorized as varieties of weaknesses which give argument to the propriety of surrendering to the ministrations of Authorized Overseers - who will sympathize, succor, and tend to those investments. The intent is for everyone to internalize the image of themselves as invalids within an atmosphere of sympathy for their "special" condition; invalids warranting the attention of the only ones who will be sensitive to their delicacies - those worthy causes which everyone else neglects. Whereas the Founders (of the U.S.) looked to innate qualities of goodness for the justification to their rebellion against mistreatment, these Upwardly Mobile Middle Managers look for untended frailties at the "bottom of the barrel" to provide just cause for acquiescence to their programs. Question: what is "moral" legitimacy (more than merely legitimate)? Better than Thine? One which would be so worthy of one's investment, that it would seem like an obligation, a duty; in a society, that which would be deemed worthy of *everyone's* time and effort, without exception. Is it good to search for (establish) a moral basis to use as a defense of one's manner of existence, or is it really unnecessary? If left unreferenced, unmentioned, will that leave a vaccum in the mind which might otherwise support such endeavors? Does one *need* to legitimize one's (political) behavior? When it becomes necessary for a people to "assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." The Founders felt the need to justify their break from the Mother Country. Today the UMMM feel the need to accomplish acquiescence to their goal of situating themselves as The Legitimate Ministers of Important Matters. As they must evoke feelings of justification for their intents and purposes, the reasons for these, the source, must appear to be Moral, to be undeniably Basic and inarguably appropriate, neutralizing all argument against it. But "[...] when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Like, inviolable encryption. <g> .. Blanc

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http://hipcrime.home.ml.org
by cypherpunks＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Jeff's Side of the Story.
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

nobody(a)REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) wrote: >> > Beware... all of this is speculation, because huge.cajones was an >> > anonymous service, not even I can say with any authority that any >> > of the people named below had anything to do with the shutdown of >> > huge.cajones (or The MailMasher). However, there are a number of >> > coincidences of timing. > > Who was it that used the threat of a lawsuit to shut down the >remailer? > I, for one, would be more than happy to make certain that they >receive ample opportunity to "Make $$Money$$ Fast!!" by receiving >a mountain of information as to how to do so. > Anyone who would attack a remailer is probably involved in child >pornography and drug dealing and these perverts should be exposed >for what they are. Please see http://www.netscum.net/burnorg0.html for more info.

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Re: PGP security problems?
by Philip Nathan 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been a nervous wreck tonight, reading all of the forged messages revealing the secrets of a number of my fellow PGP, Inc. employees. It is only a matter of time until the forger gets around to me, so I might as well confess now that I've been stealing money from the company and selling PGP, Inc. company secrets to the competition. I'm not proud of what I've done, but I am desperate to get out of this madhouse. Pantyless women, men who shine their shoes twelve times a day to peek up the women's skirts. Spooks all over the place and Phil Zimmerman sending Tim C. May ASCII-art slams to the cypherpunks list (while blaming it on Dr. Vulis). The child-pornography ring and the incessant drug dealing within the company are bad enough, but what I find really intolerable is the support for terrorists and the plot to help secret government agencies rule the U.S. Of course, if you check the cypherpunk archives, you'll probably find that Tim May predicted all of this happening in a post he sent to the list in '92. Philip Nathan <philipn(a)pgp.com> There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key forgers is warranted: "Death to Everyone!" - ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Philip Nathan | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, philipn(a)pgp.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBM7tobvNv9MGSYz54EQL82QCfelOV54gMyMeSUhUM3gz3dS00TpgAoLpo nIAXn3NpRcJZ+bzV8Cd6NNu0 =l0oJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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http://hipcrime.home.ml.org
by cypherpunks＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://hipcrime.home.ml.org

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Fancy a drink?
by Shift Control 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

This week, in the Pub Issue of Shift Control... "Some pretty scary things are happening to British pubs - apparently in the name of pleasing women. Rat and Parrot, Slug and Lettuce, All Bar One, Wetherspoons - they all signify the general white collarisation of the pub with blonde wood and windows where the cheap repro mahogany and frosted glass should be." - Kate Spicer wonders what's wrong with the good ol' local. "Some London pub crawls have their origins in history (the Jack the Ripper pub crawl) or literature (the Sherlock Holmes pub crawl), while others are just a desperate attempt to justify a booze-up (the Monopoly board pub crawl). But the greatest of all is the Circle Line pub crawl. It has no discernible beginning and no discernible end. All that's certain is that the Circle Line has 27 stations, and somewhere near the exit of each of these is a pub." - Paul Robinson takes on the ultimate pub challenge. "Nowadays even boozing and chatting have gone hi-tech. And while electric toothbrushes caught on and talking cars are here to stay, is there really any justification for the virtual pub?" - Rebecca Fox asks if online boozers have really lost the pub spirit. Plus the Shift Control quiz: How wild are you... about pubs? Shift Control: serving a full measure of delights, NOW, at http://www.shiftcontrol.com ___________________________________________________________ Shift Control is produced by the Guardian's New Media Lab with help from Boddingtons and Stella Artois Dry To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send e-mail to shiftcontrol-request(a)nml.guardian.co.uk with the following text in the body of the mail message: unsubscribe

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urban environment visualization systems
by ulf＠fitug.de 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

http://www.nttc.edu/solicitations/sbir/dod972/darpa972.txt DARPA SB972-068 TITLE: Multi-Platform Real-Time 3-D Visualization System Urban Environments and 3-D Terrain Imagery KEY TECHNOLOGY AREA: Computing and Software OBJECTIVE: Create a cross-platform (PC, Mac, Sun, SGI, etc.) real-time 3-D visualization system capable of visualizing ultra-high resolution urban environments immersed in global unlimited 3-D terrain imagery simultaneously. DESCRIPTION: Most high performance visualization systems are currently limited to high-end graphics deskside work stations costing in excess of $100K. The low-cost of high performance dedicated graphics hardware for personal computers and low-end work stations has made it possible to create a cross-platform system that can visualize virtually infinite amounts of high-resolution data in real-time. Along with the enabling hardware, a highly integrated software system that can effectively utilize the hardware with advanced graphics and data handling technologies needs to be developed. Today, this capability only exists on costly, difficult to use, and inflexible high-end systems. An advanced system is required to: 1) Visualize unlimited amounts of terrain and structure data in urban environments (e.g., large cities and military compounds containing complex structures) in real-time; 2) Implement state-of-the-art rendering and data processing techniques to provide the best possible performance for all types of data; and, 3) Run on a wide variety of systems ranging from high-end graphics work stations to standard PCs with dedicated graphics hardware. PHASE I: Define the visualization system to be developed, requirements, software architecture, high-level design, technical approaches, tradeoffs, and enhancements over current approaches and existing tools. Demonstrate proof-of-concepts on at least two different graphics platforms. PHASE II: Produce a prototype implementation of the system. Demonstrate capability on at least three different graphics platforms (high and low-end systems). PHASE III DUAL USE APPLICATIONS: The emergence of low-cost 3-D hardware for the PC platform has made practical the application of 3-D terrain and building visualization technology to address a variety of problems such as building physical security analysis (counterterrorism), urban planning, forestry management, geographic information systems, and architectural visualization. This program could greatly enhance the capability of businesses (located abroad or in the United States) and government agencies to conduct analysis of threats from terrorism or crime and to assist them in taking prudent measures to reduce their risks of terrorist or criminal attack. Portable visualization of urban settings enables any user to view their organization/businesses in a manner useful to identifying risks from bombs, sniping, or other security threats, and taking appropriate protective measures.

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Re: McVeigh Sentence
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote: > "There needs to be lifeguards at the shallow end of the gene pool" Who said that originally? Can I borrow it?

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Free investment information!
by 77574525＠msn 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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Re: Degaussing
by nobody＠REPLAY.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

> That reminds me... I have some old drives I need to take down to the > shooting range. (I want to make them an example to the other drives...) > > Sounds like a Cypherpunk project to me. ]:> Unerased data is a cancer! Only 50 Megatons of nuclear disinfectant can cure it! Lock and load!

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