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Re: Rage against spammers and telemarketers


From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:38:17 -0700

This is, like so much else, hyperbolic and completely exaggerates the
science. "The End of the Line" is as factual as "An Inconvenient Truth",
meaning not very, and where It has facts, it uses them selectively, and
takes the data to its most extreme conclusion.

In CA, we aren't the generation that ends the fish. Our fish stocks, in
may species (Giant Sea bass for one), are coming back. We're also in the
middle of implementing the Marine Life Protection Act to create
preserves where fish can breed, to add to the extensive network already
in place on the channel islands, Farallons, and in the central coast.

However, those on the other side of the Pacific can't seem to be
persuaded. Once again, preaching to the converted. I'm a diver and
sportfisherman (mostly catch and release, except for enough for that
day's dinner).


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Kaminsky [mailto:dan () doxpara com]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:18 AM
To: Tomas L. Byrnes
Cc: der Mouse; <funsec () linuxbox org>
Subject: Re: [funsec] Rage against spammers and telemarketers

It is very likely there will be no fish in the ocean in our lifetime.
Literally, all fish, all gone.  Lots of squid, but so long, thanks for
all the fish.

I think reasonable people can agree we shouldn't be the generation
that ended fish, even if they are tasty.





On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:40 AM, "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>
wrote:



-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-
bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of der Mouse
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:56 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Rage against spammers and telemarketers

The planners: Enarques, Oxbridge and Ivy Leaguers are taking over
the
world, and will give us what they think we need, as opposed to what
we want.

"What we want" has not proven to be a very good way to govern.
There's
even an idiom in English - "bread and circuses" - alluding to a
rather
famous failure of governing by direct popular mandate.  While it is
also somewhat apocryphal - it comes from a satirist's work - for it
to
have survived in live use indicates that its referent is common
enough
for us to need an idiom for it.

"What they think we need" is more likely to be a useful
approximation
to "what we ened" than "what we want" is, I think; that's the point
of
education, after all.  (And, I suspect, most of the apparent
deviations
from this are due to "them" giving "us" not "what they think we
need"
but rather "what they want us to have".)
[TLB:]
[TLB:]
This post and your one regarding DDT have shown you for what you
are: a
misanthropic elitist who is trying to have his religion (Gaianism)
established by law.

It's OK that you don't believe in a Democratic Republic, human rights
trumping those of animals, or free markets, and at least you are
honest
about it. Unfortunately, most of your fellow travelers who run the
elite
universities and have infiltrated the governments of the west are
not so
candid. If they were, they would be left ranting on listservs and
usenet, as opposed to having armies and police forces at their
command.

This was the reason Madison insisted on the second amendment. Lest
the
government be perverted by an unaccountable elite.


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