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Feb. 6 column -- Where to start
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 02:08:34 -0700 X-Sender: vin(a)dali.lvrj.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 01:09:30 -0800 To: cathy(a)engr.colostate.edu From: Vin_Suprynowicz(a)lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: Feb. 6 column -- Where to start Resent-From: vinsends(a)ezlink.com X-Mailing-List: <vinsends(a)ezlink.com> archive/latest/430 X-Loop: vinsends(a)ezlink.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: vinsends-request(a)ezlink.com FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED FEB. 6, 1998 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz Getting started S.J. writes from Johns Hopkins: "Vin -- I have found and enjoyed your web page (http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/) I am also recently reading David Boaz's book "Libertarianism: A Primer." I have been accused by professors of being a Libertarian. I really was not sure what one was. Thus my recent readings. I have many questions and no one to dialogue with. If you have time, could you tell me places I may check here in Washington D.C. ..." Egon, whose locale I don't know, similarly inquires: "... Incidently, I both enjoy and dread (reading your columns.) So few people realize how this country was intended. There is no other country in which the citizens are "sovereign," with all the rights of a king reserved to the people. But at the same time, the government has craftily changed things around. And so, the real question: Can you point me in a direction to information about how to help address these issues, or people to talk to about them?" # # # Since informing others must always start with informing ourselves, I suggested that both fellows they lay hands on a couple of recent catalogs from Laissez Faire Books, 938 Howard St., Suite 202, San Francisco 94103; tel. 415-541-9780; e-mail orders to orders(a)laissezfaire.org. Beginners may want to look for Thomas Szasz, Burton Folsom, Albert J. Nock, John Taylor Gatto, and Ayn Rand. Laissez Faire now lists L. Neil Smith's "Bretta Martin," which is good, but not "Pallas," which would be better. Also missing are John Ross' "Unintended Consequences" (Accuracy Press) and Claire Wolfe's "101 Things to Do Till the Revolution" (Loompanics.) It's also worth getting on the mailing list of the Cato Institute, at 100 Mass. Ave. NW, in Washington D.C., 20001 (tel. 202-842-0200), and of Bumper Hornberger's Future of Freedom Foundation (e-mail FFFVA(a)compuserve.com) in Northern Virginia. The Ludwig von mises Institute (owner-misesmail(a)colossus.net) tel. 334-844-2500 puts out some nifty economic publications, and for e-mail on jury rights issues you can't beat the Jury Rights Project, e-mail jrights(a)levellers.org; web page www.lrt.org/jrp.homepage.htm. Leading the new battle against the national ID card is the Coalition to Repeal the Fingerprints Law, Suite 133, 5446 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Atlanta 30341; voice mail 404-250-8105; web site www.atlantainfoguide.com/repeal/. I seem to have fallen out of touch with the Separation of School and State Alliance, based in California; maybe they'll send me some up-to-date contact information. President Brenda Grantland tells me the group Forfeiture Endangers American Rights has recently opened an office in D.C., and may be in a position to welcome volunteer help as well as contributions. Contact Interim Director Tom Gordon at the F.E.A.R. Foundation, P.O. Box 15421 Washington, D.C. 20003; tel. 202-546-4381, or toll free at 1-888-FEAR-001; e-mail TomGordon(a)fear.org; web site http://www.fear.org. Other groups worth contacting for information -- and supporting with donations or volunteer help -- include the Fully-Informed Jury Association at Box 59, Helmville, Montana 59843, tel. 406-793-5550, and Aaron Zelman's Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, 2874 S. Wentworth Ave., Milwaukee, Wisc. 53207, tel. 414-769-0760 (web site http://www.JPFO.org; e-mail Against-Genocide(a)JPFO.org.) JPFO welcomes "righteous goyim," or non-Jews, and in fact never even asks prospective members their religion. I used to think JPFO was the only truly principled gun-rights organization in the nation, holding that ANY "gun control" is an inevitable precursor to new genocides. I am now, finally, ready to submit that there are two. I have been watching for some years the development of Larry Pratt's Gun Owners of America, based at 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, Va. 22151; tel. 703-321-8585; web site http://www.gunowners.org; e-mail goaslad(a)aol.com. Folks have always called GOA "the other gun group," in deference to the massive and cholesterol-clogged National Rifle Association. Enemies of freedom always enjoy caricaturing ther NRA as a bunch of buck-toothed hunters in plaid shirts, blasting away at Bambi with a bazooka. But let me make a fearless prediction right here: as the lean little GOA strides onto their battlefield like an adolescent saber-tooth, the forces of victim disarmament are going to start waxing reminiscent about the warm, happy days when their only "opposition" was that walnut-brained brontosaurus, the NRA. The NRA's lobbying philosophy has long been to ridicule Libertarians or Independents who may be TRUE devotees of our Second Amendment rights, instead cynically endorsing and even funding the "lesser of two evils" among the two candidates representing the Republicrat and Demopublican branches of the Big Government Party. This NRA spending and lobbying philosophy is all about "buying access," but as Mr. Pratt of GOA says, "It's all based on a defeatist attitude. They think we've lost, that we have a bad bargaining position, so all we can do is make the best deal we can with this tyrant." Recently, NRA lobbyists have even twisted arms in state legislatures around the nation to INCREASE the cost and "training" rigmarole required to lay hands of a state "concealed carry permit" ... the better to insure the standards are the same nationwide. GOA thinks permit requirements should be identical in every state, too ... identical to the current law in Vermont, which requires no permit for concealed carry, at all, and which has "the lowest murder rate in the country," smiles Mr. Pratt. "But the 'access' lobbyists, if their approach was right, why do we keep losing ground?" Pratt asked his enthusiastic Las Vegas crowd. Next time: The GOA plays hardball. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin(a)lvrj.com. The web site for the Suprynowicz column is at http://www.nguworld.com/vindex/. The column is syndicated in the United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422, Las Vegas Nev. 89127. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin(a)lvrj.com "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>

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DEBATE IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
by Sources Briefings & eJOURNAL, DSO Inc. 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

********IF YOU WISH TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS MAILING LIST, PLEASE REPLY WITH SUBJECT: "REMOVE"************ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: INFORMATION CONTACT:Cynthia Johnston 415 731-1905, pr(a)dso.com REPORT IN SOURCES BRIEFINGS STIRS HEATED DEBATE IN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY San Francisco, CA. SOURCES BRIEFINGS, a newsletter delivering raw intelligence, reported recently that CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz has declared open source intelligence ìa waste of time and moneyî -- and hit a raw nerve in the intelligence community. The CIA Inspector General, speaking about the CIA's role in todayís intelligence structure, admitted that he ìfeels threatened by the presence of those in private industry and in government who are pursuing intelligence in new ways. He says that private industry is actually ahead of the CIA in technologies such as satellite imaging and encryption,î according to the article in the current issue of SOURCES BRIEFINGS (www.dso.com) ìEven though Hitz says he finds the new computer encryption and information systems ëincredibly terrifying,í he dismisses open source intelligence, inside and outside of the government agencies, as merely ëa collection of newspaper storiesí on various issues...î SOURCES BRIEFINGS subscribers in the intelligence community were quick to challenge Hitzí assertions. A senior Pentagon official with access to the Secretary of Defense stated, ìMr. Hitz may have revealed more than he intended regarding the mindset that often holds the Intelligence Community (IC) hostage. Secrets can be addictive and like potato chips it is hard just to have one. It is easy to binge on them and end up without a well balanced intelligence diet. The IC gets addicted to its own secrets and [gets] fat on ëclassifiedí self-importance.î Robert Steele, CEO of Open Source Solutions Inc., joined the battle saying, ìWe are at a very important cross-roads in the history and maturity of the U.S. intelligence community... The Commission on Intelligence found that its access to open sources is ëseverely deficientí and should be a top priority... ìOpen sources are of proven value in tip-off, in guiding secret collection, in placing secret information in context, and in providing cover for secretly obtained information which must be shared with coalition partners to whom secret sources and methods cannot or should not be revealed.î An NSA officer on loan to the military said, ìThis guy's parochial, narrow-minded, elitist thinking (ëLeave it to the patrician professionals, you fumbling amateursí) perfectly embodies what is, and has for a long time, been wrong with the CIA. I suspect that one reason for this gentleman's self-admitted fear is that the CIA doesn't really have that many truly clandestine sources, and he's afraid people will learn just how much OSINT is a better value for dollars expended.î Responses to Hitzí remarks continue to pour in to SOURCES and the editors are preparing to devote space exclusively to this debate. A sample of SOURCES BRIEFINGS, as well as subscription information can be obtained online at http://www.dso.com or by calling 1-888-8-DSO-COM (1-888-8-376-266). For further information, or to set up interviews with SOURCESí seasoned investigative journalists, intelligence experts and banking specialists, please contact Cynthia Johnston at 415 731-1905 or at pr(a)dso.com. ###

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"Stock News ALERT" UNFC expect $50 million increase in revenues in 98'.
by moisoqa＠prodigy.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

<HTML><PRE> REMINGTON-HALL CAPITALIZES ON RESURGENT REAL ESTATE MARKET Company expects to acquire $50 million in assets by mid-1998 DALLAS -- UNFC ), a diversified real estate investment firm formerly known as Universal Fuels Company, is quietly acquiring over $50 million in previously undervalued, undercapitalized or mismanaged commercial properties and making this new major player one of the best moderate-risk real estate investments in 1998. Founded in 1975 as Universal Fuels, the company provided uranium to the world as an alternative fuel, but as uranium became less used as a nuclear fuel source than other more economical and useful materials, Universal Fuels' stock declined almost to extinction over several years. The stock price was less than 1¢ last year. Four months ago officials from Camden-Townwest, a privately held real estate investment firm, approached Universal Fuels former management about converting Universal Fuels into a publicly traded real estate conglomerate. Camden-Townwest, founded in 1994, grew from $19,000 in cash to $3 million in assets in three years without seeking any outside capital. Since the change in management and corporate mission last October, UNFC has seen its stock value increase by over 800%. Remington-Hall is now making its move to increase assets at a tremendous rate. By mid-year management expects to acquire in excess of $50 Million in office buildings and multi-family properties at a significant discount to their market value. "We have been referred to as 'Cat Burglars of Real Estate'," said Douglas Fonteno, president & chief executive officer, "and that's a title we plan to keep." Douglas T Fonteno previously Chairman of Camden-Townwest and formerly with Merrill Lynch, is Remington-Hall's new President & Chief Executive Officer. Larry Hood, formerly Chief Operating Officer of Pizza Inn and Chief Financial Officer of Reliance Mortgage Company, is Remington-Hall's Chief Financial Officer, giving the new company immediate and substantial financial integrity. Wade Hyde, previously public relations and investor relations executive for Blockbuster Video and FoxMeyer Corporation, is Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations. Currently Remington-Hall is seeking to be listed on the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq National Market. The company anticipates announcing over $10 million in newly acquired assets by the end of January. Name: Remington-Hall Capital Corporation ( formerly Universal Fuels) Symbol: Nasdaq: UNFC Mission: To aggressively acquire steeply undervalued real estate properties due to previous mismanagement or undercapitalization. Management: Senior executives with diverse experiences, including: Fortune 500 corporations, leading stock brokerage firms, real estate companies and national marketing. Goals: To increase assets to $10M by January 98 and $50M by mid-year Address: 1401 Elm St., Ste. 1818, Dallas, TX 75202-2925 Internet: www.remington-hall.com E-Mail: InvestorRelations(a)remington-hall.com Quote: Yahoo! Remington-Hall Except for the historical information contained on the website, the matters set forth inthese documents are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbour" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking This is not a solicitation to buy or sell securities and does not purport to give investment recommendations. The company featured in this advertorial pay for promotional services by issuing securities, options to purchase securities and/or cash. The information contained here has been carefully compiled and believed to be reliable, but its accuracy is not guaranteed. </PRE>

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Re: e$: Come aaaannnndddd Get it!
by E. ALLEN SMITH 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: rah(a)shipwright.com (Robert Hettinga) Sameer's done it, I'm going to do it, and I'm hoping that everyone who *can* do it *will*. Lumpy though MTB may be, they're taking a risk that no one else in the financial community would, and they deserve whatever support we can give 'em. If they do it and it works, there will be others. Come on, people, let's make it work. Put your e$ where your mouth is, or at least on a hard drive somewhere... ------------------- I will as soon as someone comes up with a _fully_ private digital cash system and starts using it for something. As I understand it, Chaum's ecash system is not one (i.e., non-privacy to the sender and of amounts to the bank). If I'm incorrect, please tell me and I'll set up an account with MTB immediately (if there's a text-based interface). -Allen

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17 Dec '03

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Re: RIP, Carl Gorman, Code Talker
by Gary Harland 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Tim May responded on Sat. January 31, 1998.... >>- aside from the NSA sucking up everything in sight relating to >>languages, doesn't Chomsky's theoretical 'Universal Syntax' (all >>human languages have an identical fundamental syntax) negate the >>effectiveness of the Code-Talker approach in the long run? >> > "All crypto is economics." One doesn't have to jump to theoretical > mumbo > jumbo about a putative "identical fundamental syntax" to know that the > Navajo code talkers were not using an unbreakable system. If there is a universal syntax, you could very quickly whip up a framework for the language involved and at least be able to identify nouns, verbs, etc. Then with each commun- ication expand and specify. I don't know if that's possible and therefore don't know if it's 'theoretical mumbo-jumbo'. It doesn't sound too far-fetched but then I'm an optomistic kinda guy eh. > But what mattered is that, for the level of security needed on the > battlefield, the system was "essentially secure" against Japanese > translation. Sure, in time the Japanese could have found some experts > on > Navajo, could have trained their own code talker translators, etc. But > they > didn't have this time. (And if we posit "enough time," then the U.S. > military would have had enough time to drop the Navajo code talkers > and > replace them with Ebonics code talkers. Dat be da jive, mo fo.) We had plenty of time in Somalia to capture 'Warlord' Aidide. Not only did we fail to capture him, he rubbed it in with a daily radio program. We couldn't find the ever-moving trans- mitter let alone close it down. I well remember our top Butt Sniffer in Somalia royally pissed off on TV vowing that we'd throw everything we had into the hunt and bring him to justice. Aidide was still standing there, flipping us The Bird as we left. My impression was that the Somalies 'under-teched' us. Being dirt-poor must have made that an easy decision. But they executed it very well. The most powerful, technologically soph- isticated military machine in human history found itself groping stupidly in the dark when up against a non-tech foe. We're obviously utterlly and completely dependent on our toys. Take our batteries away and we're S.O.L. > "All crypto is economics." > > --Tim May Hmmm...There it is again. It's interesting but a bit ambiguous. ----------------------------------------------------------------- foggy(a)netisle.net lat:47d36'32" long:122d20'12" "Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared." -F. Nietzche- -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Need to get your shop setup before friday?
by sameer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

If you need to get your shop setup before Friday, and don't have the time yourself to figure out how to install the CGI things, etc. Community ConneXion can do it for you, at our standard CGI web design rate. Call me at the number below, or page 510-321-1014. -- sameer Voice: 510-601-9777 Community ConneXion FAX: 510-601-9734 The Internet Privacy Provider Dialin: 510-658-6376 http://www.c2.org/ (or login as "guest") sameer(a)c2.org

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Re: Java & Netscape security (reply to misc. postings)
by Bill Stewart 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:33 AM 11/16/95 -0800, Marianne Mueller wrote: >I think it would be great if either of these two things were to magically happen: > > 1) people would stop putting postscript docs on web pages > because it's the wrong technology for WWW - it wastes > bandwidth - it's hard to view & hence often ugly - everyone > just prints it out anyway and then complains because there > is no one "standard" implementation of postscript printing > worldwide and there are dozens of minor problems Postscript is often a better model for applications like WWW - certainly more flexible than GIFs, and often smaller, for pictures that are composed of drawings or text-like objects rather than scanned photographs. You don't have to worry about resolution differences, jaggies, and ugliness - just compatibility and security and memory consumption :-). It's somewhat the difference between X and NeWS. I seldom print Postscript documents out; I view them with Ghostscript, though lack of a non-HP printer affects this... Viewing java docs on line, with the equations written as GIFs (without even an alternate text eqn or fortran form) is much tougher. > 2) someone could implement a secure postscript previewer > (whatever that means!) Yep. If you've got something that limits itself to making marks on virtual paper and modifying memory in well-defined areas, that's probably good enough. I'm hoping Java can do much the same job. ... > If you have data you can't >bear to lose, be sure to practice safe computing. Perform backups >regularly, and use judgement about which interpreters and executable >programs you allow to run on your PC. #-- # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, Freelance Information Architect, stewarts(a)ix.netcom.com # Phone +1-510-247-0663 Pager/Voicemail 1-408-787-1281

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Re: e$: Financial Cryptography for Dogs, pt. 2. OpenDoc Kitchen, anyone?
by rah＠shipwright.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

>That was at Apple in Cupertino, 11-13 NOVEMBER, not December. The one I'm talking about *is* in fact in December, folks, Please contact me if you want to come, folks! Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah(a)shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA (617) 958-3971 "Reality is not optional." --Thomas Sowell The e$ Home Page: http://www.webstuff.apple.com/~vinnie/Rah >>>>Phree Phil: Email: zldf(a)clark.net http://www.netresponse.com/zldf <<<<<

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unsuscribe
by charles＠europages.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

unsuscribe

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