At 3:32 AM +1300 11/3/04, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> writes:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:16:41AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
<http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB109936293065461940,00.html> No cypherpunks content. Just local politics.
And it's not even original, they've mostly just translated it into English, updated it a bit (e.g. League of Nations -> UN), and changed the Russian names and references to Middle Eastern ones.
Yup. That's Davis' point, actually. Fuck with the West, we kick your ass. BTW, the Greeks at naval battle of Salamis were arguing, violently, the very night before the battle. The Persian deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The Greeks died in the low hundreds. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 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'