Re: National security backdoor.

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 04/02/04

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    Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 01:39:05 +0000 (UTC)
    
    

    In article <406c9960$0$201$75868355@news.frii.net>, Timothy J. Bogart wrote:
    > Voyager wrote:
    >> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:50:52 +0000, Kent Smith wrote:
    >>
    >> On *TIN* foil works. Aluminum foil is a placebo.
    >
    > Placebos are scientifically proven effective in up to 50% of cases.

    Well, tossing a coin will get you heads in just under 50% of cases if
    you started with tails, therefore, heads is a placebo for tails?

    > Hmm, does that make it scientologically correct?

    Only if you pay the church lots of money to make them concentrate on
    thinking it to be correct, and promise to never divulge any of their
    sooper seekrit world domination decoder-ring manuals.

    >> Notice how hard it is to find real tin foil anymore? They don't even
    >> allow it to be stocked at grocery stores.

    You'd think it's a conspiracy, innit?

    -- 
      j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
    

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