Dog Log - SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS!!! _______________________________________ From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net> To: Eric Otot <emc@wire.insync.net> Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: The Borg Arrive -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Eric Otot said:
So I have the choice of going somewhere inconvenient to shop, shopping at Rite Aid and paying full MSRP for every single item, which hardly any store sells stuff for, or getting the incentivized mandatory/voluntary barcoded card, and letting the Borg link me with everything I buy, down to each and every sheet of toilet paper I use to wipe my butt with.
Beware the Borg. Coming soon to a neighborhood store near you.
P.S. I went with the card. So lets get this straight:
You don't like a companies efforts to gather marketing statistics on its customers but due to your own *sloth* you not only continue to shop there but you also fill out the forms for them to track every purchase that you make! I am sorry but as hard as I try I can not generate the least bit of sympathy for you. Sheeple are sheeple because they act in the manner that you just outlined in your message. Bitch, whine and moan that the store tracks what brand of toilet paper they buy but if in exchange for $0.10 off 4 rolls and they will give up their entire life story. Sheep get sheered because they don't know any better, sheeple get sheered because they deserve it. ------------------------------------------------------------ William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 5.0 at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgp.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Tag-O-Matic: I use OS/2 2.0 and I don't care who knows! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 ZZZCharset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNUp/Ko9Co1n+aLhhAQHRpwP+OVypg6sRgZMAqW6NmaTexoqoRt4z3zxK lhQ6HGvmDMxIGqdS5vPPHw+kZPjtJbkxAWamoi6EtOccbv/3otl2bjuFPNBNMYD+ p7nMAhdZDk1zsgiiUhSzp3ZcREcFIy8Ybnu6u4xYf/wgueg26cW+JE8A5iyeJMOz 6dHT6oBT2IE= =u1mU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- God bless WillyG III! Eric Otot wrote a reply to WGII's caustic post which gave a perfectly reasonable account of his preference for picking which 'battles' were worth his while to engage in, and which would be merely pissing in the wind of the masses rushing by to save their dime for the GreyHound restroom. I chose to omit EricO's reply and spell-correct WGIII's, in order to preserve the point made by his post, without lessening the post's effect by letting it be obvious that WG3 is an uneducated, redneck, barefoot hillbilly who has no 'manors'... I did so for the simple reason that Eric Otot's perfectly reasonable erudition of his postion on the imposition of identity-tracking techonlogy, although being a perfectly valid justification of the need for concentration of resources, is a position that millions or billions of perfectly reasonable people are capable of reasoning for themselves. Fuck 'reasonable'... Eric Cordian, a much wiser and more perceptive member of the CypherPunks list than Eric Otot, though less easily amused, elucidates one of the many reasons why it may be unreasonable to remain reasonable in one's reasoning in regard to what one must take under consideration when deciding the imortance, or lack thereof, of refusing to submit to the increasing intrusion of technology into our lives in return for what are often marginal benefits. From: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net> Subject: Re: The Borg Arrive To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Steve Schear writes:
Many of the large grocers in my area have also gone to 'club' cards as a means of data mining and loyalty promotion. However, the procedure for joining such clubs is open loop, in that the cards are issued at the POS and no check is made of the information your provide. All of mine are pseudoanonymous. For the time being.
However, that could change once all retail outlets are MarkOfTheBeast-Enabled. Infrastructure is infrastructure, after all. --- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law" --- An interesting, widely unknown part of the Club Card equation is that, even if an individual does not 'provide' the vendor with the Mark of the Beast (SSN), those who control the databases involved 'add' MotB/SSN information from widely available 'lookup' sources. As well, the Corporate Beast seems to have learned a few tricks from the Government Beast. Just as the government takes your money as Federal Taxes and then uses it to 'buy' the compromise of your 'State rights' under the guise of matching federal funding, the corporations merely raise their prices and then give the customer a 'rebate' in return for registering for the Yellow Star Club Card. During my recent Soft Target Tour of Tucson, I used my base-player's Safeway Club Card, but I always made a point of going to the adjoining Walgreen's first, to get those things on my list which they sold, before going to Safeway. I cannot recall a single item which I bought at Walgreen's which was not a higher price at Safeway, unless one used the Club Card, whereupon it 'magically' became exactly the same price as the item was at Walgreen's. When shopping for myself, I refuse to play the 'Savings Club' game, for the same reason I don't sell my butt behind the GreyHound Bus Station for a paltry sum of money. Instead, I spend a few more dollars paying the inflated prices, and I leave a few expensive cuts of the store's meat products in a location where they won't be found for a few days. In essence, I pay more as a result of the Sheeple's actions, and they pay more as a result of mine. Tim May, a 34th Generation May Son and a licentious proctologist, has turned his multiple personality affliction into an overall benefit to the quality of his life by singlehandedly creating and maintaining all of the various personas that make up the CypherPunks list subscriber membership, maintaining the list archives, singlehandedly inventing all CypherPunks technologies under his 'Tim May' persona, and keeping his remaining personas in line by referring them to the 'archives' every time the subordinate personas try to take credit for legendary CypherPunk concepts such as 'sliced bread' and the 'wheel'. Despite being the only real subscriber to the CypherPunks list, he manages to not only singlehandedly run all of the Bay Area CypherPunks Physical Meetings, but also to put into practice the MeatSpace manifestations of the concepts he espouses, by methods such as discussed in the following: To: Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> Subject: Re: The Borg Arrive At 6:05 PM -0700 5/1/98, Eric Cordian wrote:
A few weeks ago, however, Rite Aid did something which was not merely mildly annoying, but actually threatening to my privacy.
I walked into the store, and noticed that every sale tag in the store had been embellished with fine print containing the words "(With your Rite Rewards Card)" Giant banners proclaimed that this card was free and could be obtained by simply filling out a little form, available at any register. This form required your name, address, apt, state, zip, phone number, and date of birth, and the card was barcoded. Did you miss the discussion of the Kalifornia Solution?
At physical meetings and parties we _exchange member cards_ randomly. A persona hit upon this after I was showing my "Safeway" (a major Kalifornia-based chain in 46 of the 57Semi-Autonomous Republics) and describing how we can execute a Chaumian exchange. As the cards are just cards, with no photo and no obvious I.D. attached, such exchanges are easy.
Beware the Borg. Coming soon to a neighborhood store near you.
P.S. I went with the card. But of the cards I have, all are filled out illegibly or have been traded multiple times. Identity entropy is an interesting concept.
--Tim May "The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants...." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments. Federal US Marshall Clow, famous as the LEA who finally brought the Blues Brothers to Justice and Ray Charles to Blind Justice, suggests that Identity Entropy Warriors use the addresses of the the secret lairs of the Circle of Eunuchs and the Army of Dog in filling out all forms, so that the UCE/Spams they so dearly love can be forwarded to them after InfoWar has driven them underground. To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>, Martin Minow <minow@apple.com> From: Marshall Clow <mclow@owl.csusm.edu> Subject: Re: The Borg Arrives Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net At 8:45 AM -0700 5/1/98, Rabid Wombat wrote:
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Martin Minow wrote:
<Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net> accepts a loyalty card and complains that he has lost his privacy.
So, do the Cypherpunks thing -- get another card and use that sometimes. In fact, have all your friends get cards and, whenever you get together throw your cards in a pile and take new ones away with you
ps: did you actually sign your real name? If so, we're going to take away your secret decoder ring. He used his real address. Now they know where to find his cat ...
Try 1060 West Addison; Chicago IL (Wrigley Field) or 70 Brookline Dr.; Boston MA (Fenway Park) -- Marshall Marshall Clow Adobe Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." ---Thomas Jefferson Although Marshall Clow ends his post with a grotesquely misquoted statement from Thomas Jefferson--whose original quotations in regard to government invariably contained words such as ratfuckers, cocksuckers, slimeballs, jerkwads, etc.--it nonetheless reflects the type of subterfuge that Jefferson foresaw taking place in the sphere of government, which is today being mirrored in the methodologies of corporations worldwide. The 'federal matching funds' and 'club card savings' scams are but one example of the reasons that an increasing number of citizens, such as Tim May, are finding it necessary to undergo training in proctology, in order to figure out just what the hell governments and corporations are *doing* back there... The preceeding illustrates what individuals and small cells of Army of Dog Warriors can do to throw an element of misdirection into the increasing number of tracking mechanisms being put in place in our daily lives. However, these effect of these types of resistance to the digitalization of humanity are generally far outweighed by the mindless SheepleDom of the masses in allowing themselves to be herded unquestioningly into an endless variety of feeding pens where they are expected to feed on corporate products and, in turn, be fed upon by the government. Of much more effect are the actions of potential Army of Dog Warriors who are in positions which allow them to add misdirection to the digital equation at a level which can throw a Major Screw into the machinery. System Administrators, DataBase Managers, Tech Support personnel, software and hardware Programmers and Developers, are all in a position to enter random numbers into the structured equations designed to monitor and track an increasing number of individual citizens whose lives will be documented in increasing detail in an ever-widening network of corporate and government databases. Tim C. May Owes Me $ .05 As His Share Of The Money That Was Ripped Off From Me By Sun MicroSystems By Selling Me An Operating System Which Was Written By University Students Who Put Comments In The Source Files Which Made Fun Of People Over '30': Tim--I paid Deloite & Touche $ 60,000 to do a Quality Control Analysis on my life, in general, and their report, which is the equivalent of borrowing my watch to tell me what time it is, indicates that the posts you have made to the CypherPunks Disturbed Male LISP since 7 Dec, 1989, are worth $ .03, so as long as you send me your $ .02 worth, we can call it even, and I won't have to launch an assault on Mayonnaise Mountain and put my SPARCard 2 where the Sun MicroSystems don't shine... The Bottom Line, Version 9.9, Revision 0.0: It's my birthday, I'm halfway through a bottle of Glenfiddich, Cask Strength (51% alcohol) Scotch, which is produced in Dufftown (Home of 'Duff Beer', Homer Simpson's drink of choice), Banffshire (Just outside of Calgary, AB), Scotland (An independent Cirle of Eunuchs/Army of Dog Republic often referred to as 'The Texas of the British Empire'). My Dad gave me a birthday call, during which he informed me that his talks with the RCMP revealed that Canadian Customs can hold my computers, etc., up to 90 days before exorcising their option to put their dick up my ass, and then hold it for the fifty years during which the outcome of any further court proceedings are decided. I totally flipped out, screaming all kinds of self- incriminating utterances which prove conclusively that I am a danger to the lives and lifes of decent, Dog- Fearing MeatSpaceIzens everywhere, even though I am fully aware that my electronic communications are being monitored by those who will be 'between a rock and a hard place' when they have to decide whether they should admit to their illegal, surrupticious surveillance of my life, since birth, which would prove that my extreme paranoia validates my 'sanity defense', or to pretend that they are just a loosely-knit organization of semi-competent traffic-ticket writers who have no idea what this silly, paranoid fool is talking about, validating their claim that I should be committed to an internment camp for the Delusionally Politically Incorrect, and that the evidence confirming the reality of the basis of my nonsensical blatherings should be chalked up to 'mere coincidence'. For Professional Mathematicians Only: 1. Estimate the number of times I have 'twitched' in between the time I screamed at my Dad that the RCMP are not the only ones in possession of firearms. 2. Divide this estimate by the number of times I have gotten laid since 1992 (Hint: '0'). 3. Add the number of times that Toto has forged posts to the CypherPunks list, using your name. 4. Subtract the number of ASCII-Art spams sent to the list since July 31, 1999 (Hint: 'The same as answer #2'). 5. Multiply by Franklin's Fudge Factor. 6. Plot Pinkerton's Probability Point. 7. Ask yourself, "How many stops did the train make?" An accurate calculation of the undescribable, inane, indiscrimate insanities enumerated above, will, if divided by the value of Pi legislated by Congress, provide the number of bodies it takes to spell 'Einstein Was Crazy'. While this in no way relates to valid CypherPukes issues such as Craptographics or Piracy, it is essential to the issue of exactly when this chapter of 'SPACE ALIENS HIDE MY DRUGS' ceased to follow the pre-ordained path which the Tao was directing it toward, by way of CensorShip by the Cosmic Muffin, and became a meaningless diatribe during which I tried to disguise the fact that I am jumping up and down, screaming "KILL, KILL, KILL!!!" and putting my head through the walls of my home in an increasingly futile attempt to prevent myself from stepping beyond the boundaries of the social programming provided by the Secret Government Agents Cleverly Disguised As Teachers and emptying the clips of several dozen illegal firearms into the MeatSpace boundaries of a Post Office, a Luby's Cafeteria, and a Schoolhouse Full Of 'Innocent Children Who Would Eventually Murder Their Parents If I Didn't Slaughter Them, Anyway' To Be Named Later. The concept of the Army of Dog assumes that the majority of DogIzens will be sufficiently sane to direct their rEvolutionary thoughts, feelings and actions in a direction which will result in the BioSemiotic Evolution of Humankind moving forward to an increasingly logical and humanistic future. If a few MadDogs such as myself have to be put down by LEA CypherPunks, and a number of Sheeple need to be Nuked by Timothy C. McCypherPunks, then it is a small price to pay for ensuring that SpamFord will be free to compete with Dimitri's ASCII-Art and Fuck@Yourself.Up's Trojan Horses for the attention of CypherPunks Disturbed Male LISP Mambo'ers who have remained subscribed to 'cypherpunks-unedited@toad.com', in order to document the 'Secret Conspiracy Against The CypherPunks List' that is being perpetrated by the Commie Schill, Ignoramus Chewed-Off, the Awe-Stun-Taxes WebMasturbator, James ChokeTheMonkey, and A Nietzsche Nazi Racing Across The Tundra In A Snowmobile To Be Named Later. When all is said and done, it matters little that the Violent Armed Thugs who comprise the Dudley DoWrong Division of the RCMP are incapable of setting up and railroading an individual who is half as smart as his dog. What matters is that they can shoot his sorry ass, move the body to the nearest Reservation, put a skirt on him, add the body of dead, young Native child with a tube of glue in his hand, and launch an internal investigation by their BumBuddies (TM) that will show them to have followed Proper PoliceMurder Procedure. Now For The 'BAD' News: As you have probably guessed, given the obvious degeneration of this rambling diatribe into an incoherent 'Rage Against The Machine', I have finally sunk into such a depraved condition of violent insanity that any astute judge of the human condition can easily predict that the next chapter of 'SAHMD' will tell The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth. Please read it, anyway... If you constantly remind yourself that I am a madman, then you can relegate what I have to reveal to your subconsious, and continue to chop wood and carry water without feeling obligated to join me in an assault on everything that righteous, Dog-Fearing Netizens hold sacred. The Retribution is NOW!