Posters to the cypherpunks list can be divided into idiots and others. Idiots seldom contribute anything useful and love to fasten onto threads which require no more than their uninformed opinions. Interestingly, many of the idiots work at low-paying jobs like system administration, and several of them are unemployed. The lists below can't cover everyone, but here is a sampling of recent posters. Note: if you are an idiot, you may not like being informed of this fact. Nevertheless you will find few non-idiots who will disagree with your classification. Go ahead and ask for anyone on the non-idiots list to vouch for you, if you have the balls. Idiots Jim Choate (lifetime member) Harmon Seaver Karsten Self J.A. Terranson Steve Furlong James B. DiGriz Reese Non-idiots Tim May Bill Stewart Sandy Sandfort Greg Broiles John Young James Donald Lucky Green Eric Cordian Declan McCullagh (marginal) Adam Back Adam Shostack Eugene Leitl
And the others that didn't even get mentioned -- what category do you rate them? So are we idiots supposed to feel crushed by this and slink away, never to be heard from again? Or should we just try harder? Or maybe simply double/triple/quadruple the volume of our posts to achieve eminence? I guess I'm not seeing the relevance, since you don't have the balls to do this openly. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 hseaver@cybershamanix.com http://www.cybershamanix.com/resume.html
I very rarely post, so I am reveling in my mediocrity... -josh Harmon Seaver wrote:
And the others that didn't even get mentioned -- what category do you rate them? So are we idiots supposed to feel crushed by this and slink away, never to be heard from again? Or should we just try harder? Or maybe simply double/triple/quadruple the volume of our posts to achieve eminence? I guess I'm not seeing the relevance, since you don't have the balls to do this openly.
-- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 hseaver@cybershamanix.com http://www.cybershamanix.com/resume.html
It 's always refreshing when someone posts something truly funny. The "idiots list" ranks right up there with Nixon's enemies list - except it's not as long... -- john noerenberg jwn2@qualcomm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While the belief we have found the Answer can separate us and make us forget our humanity, it is the seeking that continues to bring us together, the makes and keeps us human. -- Daniel J. Boorstin, "The Seekers", 1998 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Posters to the cypherpunks list can be divided into idiots and others.
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The lists below can't cover everyone, but here is a sampling of recent posters. Note: if you are an idiot, you may not like being informed of this fact. Nevertheless you will find few non-idiots who will disagree with your classification. Go ahead and ask for anyone on the non-idiots list to vouch for you, if you have the balls.
I don't think my self-esteem will be greatly damaged by someone without the balls to attach his own name to his message. When Tim called for a fatwah against me a year ago, following a misunderstanding about something I wrote, he at least had the balls to do so over his own name. And now that I think about it, there's no real indication that you are a "someone". Quite likely you're just a dumbassbot hiding behind an anonymizer. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Posters to the cypherpunks list can be divided into idiots and others.
Something I forgot to mention: "Nomen Nescio" certainly belongs on the idiots list. There are an awful lot of really stupid messages coming from Nomen. (For the irony impaired, yes, I am aware that many anonymizer users come under the NN nym.) -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
Rather amusing, when you think about it. Obviously the guy is too clueless to figure out how to use any sort of filter or killfile. -- Harmon Seaver, MLIS CyberShamanix Work 920-203-9633 Home 920-233-5820 hseaver@cybershamanix.com http://www.cybershamanix.com/resume.html
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Nomen Nescio wrote: [much <whine>"you suck"</whine> elided]
Note: if you are an idiot, you may not like being informed of this fact.
Glass houses... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org <---- no doubt the source of the "low paying system administrator" poke. Obviously, the All Knowing Nomen doesn't realize that I don't get paid for this one _at all_. If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------
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