From: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org (angry-psychos-digest) To: angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Subject: angry-psychos-digest V7 #314 Reply-To: angry-psychos@smoe.org Sender: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-angry-psychos-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "angry-psychos-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. angry-psychos-digest Friday, November 15 2002 Volume 07 : Number 314 Today's Subjects: ----------------- happy bday to poe.org ["Bich Ngoc Cao" ] Re: happy bday to poe.org [Cyberfan Corporation ] Re: happy bday to poe.org [KrodKnid@aol.com] NPR/This is scary as hell [KrodKnid@aol.com] Re: NPR/This is scary as hell [CtProse10@aol.com] Re: NPR/This is scary as hell [NoisyPollution@aol.com] Las Vegas Psycho Field Trip [Prozackitty16@aol.com] NPR: The Sims Online [Sharonda220@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:39:00 -0800 From: "Bich Ngoc Cao" Subject: happy bday to poe.org it's poe.org's birthday... fifth, right? wow. peace bich ngoc - -------------------- www.madcao.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:36:15 -0700 (MST) From: Cyberfan Corporation Subject: Re: happy bday to poe.org Technically... POE.ORG was registered on October 25, 1996... But you are correct, we didn't go live until today... November 14, 1996... So that makes us - SIX YEARS OLD WoW ! ! ! Thanks Bich Ngoc ******************************************************************* JK/// Jarrod Kniff Cyberfan Corporation jarrod@cyberfan.com ******************************************************************* http://www.poe.org http://www.shakedown.st ******************************************************************* On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Bich Ngoc Cao wrote: > > it's poe.org's birthday... > fifth, right? > wow. > > peace > bich ngoc > -------------------- > www.madcao.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:59:13 EST From: KrodKnid@aol.com Subject: Re: happy bday to poe.org In a message dated 11/14/2002 2:28:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, cyberfan@ns1.indigi.net writes: > Technically... POE.ORG was registered on October 25, 1996... But you are > correct, we didn't go live until today... November 14, 1996... > > So that makes us - SIX YEARS OLD > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems like dog years though. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:11:22 EST From: KrodKnid@aol.com Subject: NPR/This is scary as hell You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON b If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend b all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database." To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you b passport application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance b and you have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every U.S. citizen. This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks. Remember Poindexter? Brilliant man, first in his class at the Naval Academy, later earned a doctorate in physics, rose to national security adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He had this brilliant idea of secretly selling missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, and with the illicit proceeds to illegally support contras in Nicaragua. A jury convicted Poindexter in 1990 on five felony counts of misleading Congress and making false statements, but an appeals court overturned the verdict because Congress had given him immunity for his testimony. He famously asserted, "The buck stops here," arguing that the White House staff, and not the president, was responsible for fateful decisions that might prove embarrassing. This ring-knocking master of deceit is back again with a plan even more scandalous than Iran-contra. He heads the "Information Awareness Office" in the otherwise excellent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which spawned the Internet and stealth aircraft technology. Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American. Even the hastily passed U.S.A. Patriot Act, which widened the scope of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and weakened 15 privacy laws, raised requirements for the government to report secret eavesdropping to Congress and the courts. But Poindexter's assault on individual privacy rides roughshod over such oversight. He is determined to break down the wall between commercial snooping and secret government intrusion. The disgraced admiral dismisses such necessary differentiation as bureaucratic "stovepiping." And he has been given a $200 million budget to create computer dossiers on 300 million Americans. When George W. Bush was running for president, he stood foursquare in defense of each person's medical, financial and communications privacy. But Poindexter, whose contempt for the restraints of oversight drew the Reagan administration into its most serious blunder, is still operating on the presumption that on such a sweeping theft of privacy rights, the buck ends with him and not with the president. This time, however, he has been seizing power in the open. In the past week John Markoff of The Times, followed by Robert O'Harrow of The Washington Post, have revealed the extent of Poindexter's operation, but editorialists have not grasped its undermining of the Freedom of Information Act. Political awareness can overcome "Total Information Awareness," the combined force of commercial and government snooping. In a similar overreach, Attorney General Ashcroft tried his Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), but public outrage at the use of gossips and postal workers as snoops caused the House to shoot it down. The Senate should now do the same to this other exploitation of fear. The Latin motto over Poindexter"s new Pentagon office reads "Scientia Est Potentia" b "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you. "We're just as concerned as the next person with protecting privacy," this brilliant mind blandly assured The Post. A jury found he spoke falsely before. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:12:08 -0500 From: CtProse10@aol.com Subject: Re: NPR/This is scary as hell Too bad the government already tracks that stuff... Oh well. Personally, I hate the idea of a large government and being tracked. Yay! all cash... Regardless, everything you have ever done, and will do that can be, already is stored in some database somewhere... The homeland security act also combines pre-existing facets of the government, like the Lifeguard, and some other dealybob i don't really care about. Oh well... The most we can do is write to our senators [not that, that will do anything, i just thought i should say that.] The least we can do is complain, and that is exactly what I intend on doing... All the Best May Jesus Watch Over You - -Christopher ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:34:21 EST From: NoisyPollution@aol.com Subject: Re: NPR/This is scary as hell If you have a Kroger card it detects everything you buy. So, if you put that you're a nonsmoker on your insurance information, they can check to see if you buy cigarettes or not. This sucks because you could be buying them for someone else, but that's the breaks I suppose. Peace, }}Y{{eLissA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:32:26 EST From: Prozackitty16@aol.com Subject: Las Vegas Psycho Field Trip Do we have anymore news on this yet? Whats the haps?? Do we have the singers ligned up yet? Where do we sign up? Do we have an official date for sure? Anyone have ANYTHING more on this? Any help, Dan? The new mommie, ~Gypsy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:07:41 EST From: Sharonda220@aol.com Subject: NPR: The Sims Online Hey everyone!!! I installed the Sims online (beta version for the test play) the other day and tonight is the first time i get to use it!! whooo hooo!!! so if anyone else is playing and is interested in being my roommate then email me. do we actually get to pick our roommates? well i will find out and if anyone else is playing send me an email and the town you are in :) Shari ------------------------------ End of angry-psychos-digest V7 #314 ***********************************