The Streisand imagecriminal lives 2-3 parcels away from me
Tim May
timcmay at got.net
Tue Jun 3 13:53:44 PDT 2003
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 11:00 AM 06/03/2003 -0400, Sunder wrote:
>> That's all nice and good, but why should it be on cypherpunks?
>> Where's
>> the relevance to this list? Why is Ken, or his addres or helipad an
>> interest to the cypherpunks? Why is PG&E's monopolistic's actions
>> against
>> him relevant to the topics of this list?
>>
>> What's next? The Cypherpunk Equirer?
>
> Well sure - because not all the Black Helicopters flying over Tim's
> house
> have belonged to Feds/UN/etc. - one of them's probably been Ken's :-)
> I've also found Tim's comments on Pynchon living nearby interesting.
>
>> IMHO, neither he, nor the Streisand creature have any relevance here -
>> there perhaps was some relevance in terms of that lawsuit the bitch
>> started, but, who gives a shit who your neighbors are?
>
> I'd say issues of putting aerial photography on the internet and
> how that changes the status of previously "secret" information
> are pretty close to our core issues - they're not directly
> cryptography,
> but neither are the "guns, lots of guns" discussions.
And neither are the 15th or 23rd essentially duplicative discussions of
PGP or Mondex or SSL or crypto exports very interesting or useful.
I have no idea who pissed in Sunder's Wheaties, but he is of course
free to skip any articles and concentrate on the ones that interest
him. Volume on the list is now a fraction of what it once was...and yet
still much repetitiousness dominates. Sunder could consider subscribing
to a "Best of" list...wait, doesn't he _run_ one? Problem solved.
I was not the one who brought up the Streisand sut...that was a posting
by Major Variola on Friday. I thought it was pretty interesting that
the aerial photographer is a neighbor of mine. This is, after all, not
the same as listing neighbors who have not been mentioned...this is
more akin to there being some talked-about crime case here and having
John Young or Declan say "That guy is my neighbor across the way."
Interesting to know where people live, with even less techno/privacy
relevance (such as hearing that Gary Condit lived near where Declan
lives).
Added to the fact that I see his helicopters circling low over my
property (which explains some of the close encounters of the chopper
kind in recent years), and the privacy/Brinworld implications
(mentioned by M. Variola), and the sheer coincidence that I had just
returned from my first flying lesson, I felt the need to post.
Also, about 50-60 people were at the meeting/party at my house last
September, so they have some (perhaps slight) awareness of which hills
and nearby areas I'm mentioning.
Sunder should put me in his killfile for a while...I am doing that for
his posts, for a while.
By the way, the Adelman situation also has a few other interesting
tidbits. The company Adelman and his partner formed was called "TGV."
Located in Santa Cruz, the names suggested _speed_, as in the French
train of the same name. Lore has it that the real origin was "Two Guys
and a Vax.
Adelman also founded Network Alchemy.
TGV was sold at the peak of the Internet boom to Cisco and Network
Alchemy was sold to Nokia. Adelman cleared at least a few hundred
million dollars.
--Tim May
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
into you." -- Nietzsche
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