Just some friction in The Machine

Saturday, May 31, 2003


Thanks Doug for pointing out the Bob Schulz exchange with Gene Chapman that's posted on the Fred Smart blog. I certainly understand Bob's reactions, and I agree with you that Bob is a great leader, but I disagree with him that the Feds can't afford to have someone die waiting for an answer. They insist that they've given an answer, as paultry and indirect as it is, it's their story and they're sticking to it. (as the country song goes) They would have been perfectly happy to see Gene die on the Austin IRS office steps. Personally, I think Gene will be much more effective alive. He didn't set out to be a movement, he was one man doing his thing. I suspect he is more committed now than he ever was. He now knows that his not so servant government would have let him die. You and I and thousands of others also know it. They'd let me die too. They'd throw me in prison (Irwin Schiff). They'd try to ruin my business. They'd defame me ( like they did Bob Schulz ), they'd try to ruin my life and family (like Larken Rose). They'd ruin my career (like Joe Banister). All to keep the lie alive.


Friday, May 30, 2003


My brother Vince sent me this e-mail:

This is an interesting view point.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency
did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its
releases:


A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate
Washington spends it.


Thursday, May 29, 2003


According to the San Diego Union-Tribute, librarians in Palo Alto are challenging the Patriot Act by shredding documents within six days of use. The last paragraph of the story talks about two Congresscritters working to amend the Patriot Act to exclude the library and bookstore provisions. I've got a message for them, "End it, don't mend it."

I found out today that a company called Mailbocks already provides an online web e-mail service that is close to my anti-SPAM idea. My intention is to implement at the user's e-mail client software rather than on the mail server, and I suggest that what they call a "challenge" be accompanied by "filler", which would essentially create a distributed denial of service attack on a SPAMmer as part of the protocol. Also, my system would be completely automated if both sender and receiver have "TWH-enabled" clients. And.....with my system being implemented at the client, you wouldn't have to buy a subscription and pay monthly ad infinitum.


Tuesday, May 27, 2003


Just back from the Oregon coast, it was a great trip. An aside to Doug Kenline, take the trip, do your annual pilgrimage to Colorado, it's a good thing. I'm happy to see that Gene Chapman ended his fast. It is obvious that our government would be perfectly happy to let him die on the doorstep of the IRS office in Austin. We have their answer, it came in a letter from DOJ to Congressman Bartlett, they REFUSE to answer.

I contacted a couple of visual basic for applications (VBA) programmers today to see if they thought my anti-SPAM idea could be implemented as an add-on to Microsoft Outlook. So far it looks like they agree that it can. I'm still looking for internet analysts to critique the idea. Feedback I've had so far has suggested that it use the Contacts list as the "whitelist" and that a local folder can act as the token database. Good suggestions.


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