Gee whiz I'm scared. Look, since you're angling for some stats, come on over to New York. I'll meet you on the corner of 135th Street and St Nicholas Avenue (we call that neighborhood Harlem). Look for me: 6'1", 220 lbs and looking EXACTLY like someone would look after 7 years of GoJu training...I'm the guy even the locals won't fuck with. -Tyler Durden
From: Steve Thompson <steve49152@yahoo.ca> To: Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> CC: cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: Re: Gubmint Tests Passport RFID... Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:20:54 -0400 (EDT)
--- Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
Whaddya know. Thompson said something that didn't make me want to beat him to death...
Too bad for you that I cannot say the same about what you write.
I have a different threat model.
I've reached more or less the same conclusion. Or at least, incompetence may not be deliberate per se, but the byproduct of a system that needs to appear to care but is otherwise silently incented not to. Checking bags in the NYC transit system is the ultimate example of this: Completely, absolutely pointless in the face of a determined foe. (Meanwhile, of course, there's all sorts of state shennanegins that are possible through such an arrangement.)
No fucking shit. Thanks for pointing this out to me.
The obvious question is how much 9/11/01 is an example of this. For me, the conspiracy theories just don't quite add up (close though) but a moderately sharpened Occam's razor leads one to believe that some 'deliberate' holes were left open, which bin Laden, et al exploited. (I actually still believe that Bush didn't expect that level of damage, however.)
I don't know Bush, personally, and so I feel that it would be improper to suggest that his unspoken cost-benefit analysis resulted in a particular set of actions.
As for the integrity of the money supply, I must succumb to temptation and question whether the Stalinst model of a demand economy (servicing an endless war on terror) hasn't been looked at by folks such as Wolfowitz, Cheney and so on.
Suckkumb all you want.
Regards,
Steve
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