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If anyone can show that Beto has a hard copy of the Anarchists' Cookbook I'll vote for him twice.
by shereadsthenews 8y ago
If anyone can show that Beto has a hard copy of the Anarchists' Cookbook I'll vote for him twice.
- cronix 8y agoWhy would he? I'm sure he downloaded it so he didn't have to pay for it, like all of the cracked games he was getting. Sounds like he was phreaking and stealing from long distance companies, too. I wonder what war dialer he was using. > At the time, people connected to bulletin boards by dialing in to the phone lines through a modem. Heavy use of long-distance modem calls could add up to hundreds of dollars a month. Savvy teens learned techniques for getting around the charges, such as using other people’s phone-company credit card numbers and five-digit calling codes to place free calls.
- merlincorey 8y agoVoting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme. Probably best not to telegraph such intentions.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Voting twice seems like some kind of vote stuffing scheme Sounds like a commitment to do so in the primary and general election both, which is quite legal.
- checkyoursudo 8y agoOr just someone being an anarchist. ;)
- merlincorey 8y agoAh, good point! As an independent I don't participate in primaries typically.
- tantalor 8y agoYou should; lack of moderate voices in primaries only helps fringe candidates.
- magduf 8y agoExactly; this is why we frequently get such lousy candidates winning in the primaries, who then go to the general election for everyone to vote on.
- craftyguy 8y agoI tend to credit the two party system for there being a general lack of good candidates who make it into the general election with only two having more than a remote chance of winning.
- magduf 8y agoDuverger's Law only applies to the general election, where each main party only fields one candidate. It doesn't work for primaries, where the party has lots of candidates running. There's nothing really stopping the parties from selecting better candidates in their primaries, since the parties have control over who they select anyway (they're not actually bound by the results of the election, and can rig it if they want, such as with "superdelegates").
- cronix 8y agoExcept when you're not allowed to, which happens a lot if you're registered as an Independent... > In a closed primary, only voters registered with a given party can vote in that party's primary. States with closed primaries include party affiliation in voter registration so that the state has an official record of what party each voter is registered as. https://www.fairvote.org/open_and_closed_primaries https://www.fairvote.org/open_and_closed_primaries The system isn't nearly as open as people seem to think.
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- Someone1234 8y agoInterestingly the Anarchists Cookbook may be unlawful[0] due to the way anti-terrorism laws are written. [0] https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/josh-walker-anarchist-cookbook-terrorism-act-uk/ https://theintercept.com/2017/10/28/josh-walker-anarchist-co...
- Fej 8y agoThat's in the UK. Such a law would run afoul of the First Amendment in the US.
- Brakenshire 8y agoDo texts that contain bomb-making information really fall under the first amendment in the US?
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- aidenn0 8y agoYes, except possibly when containing classified information.
- astura 8y agoPublishing and/or otherwise mishandling classified information isn't a crime unless you have (or had) a security clearance.
- aidenn0 8y agoIANAL, but pretty sure that this is not true. There is not a blanket ban on prior-restraint for national security reasons, but New York Times Co. v. United States did establish limits on it. One takeaway from that case could be that it did at least partly imply that the burden of proof is on the government, not the press. However, since all 9 justices had differing opinions, there's a lot of uncertainty over what is and isn't legal.
- blang 8y agoWhat if he had the digital copy, stored on floppy disk?
- dwighttk 8y agohow floppy?
- Varcht 8y agoThen he is some compression wizard too! Edit: I guess that could be read as plural...
- tptacek 8y agoIt was both a book and a series of tfiles. Most HPAV boards had copies. They would not have come close to filling a floppy.
- Varcht 8y agoTo be fair, we had not and have not stipulated what we mean when we say "floppy". Maybe you were a rich kid but a lot of us were still on some pretty low density stuff into the late 80's. Embarrassingly, I was still on cassette for most of the decade.
- tptacek 8y agoThere is no PC, Mac, or Amiga floppy drive that could not have held the tfile Anarchist's Cookbook (the tfile cookbook is not the same as the book, which fits easily on a single-density 3.5 but not on a 5.25).