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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sun Mar 14 04:03:42 1999
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:43:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1984
> From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: hathcock redux
>
>
> At 06:50 PM 3/13/99 -0000, Anonymous wrote:
> >Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> wrote, regarding a Carlos Hathcock II:
> >>Who... cares?
> >
> >To which Brian B. Riley replied:
> >>For starters he was a friend of mine. For another he was crippled years
> >>ago by MS and spent a lot of painful time in the hospital the last few
> >>years ago.
> >
> >...and his relevance to cypherpunkdom is... ?
> >
>
> Entirely social. There's a self-parodying (or not) hoplophile thread
> that coexists here, because we're supposed to be paranoids, remember?
>
> Never mind the aesthetics of the absolute functionality of the
> surface-hardened, tempered
> blued steel, the precision machining, the satisfying clicks as interlocks
> meet, the knurled wooden ergonomics, the gleaming yellow brass against the
> blaze of copper red, the dull silver of the lead ogive... the beautiful
> potassium-purple
> flare, the sharp crack of the gases exercising the impulse function of your
> ear,
> the thump in your hand and the resonant bell sound of your target (skillet,
> disk drive
> platter, pie-tin) opening, metal gushing as it accepts the luscious
> penetration of the
> missile...
are you talking about anal sex or taking a shit?
> >and his relevance to cypherpunkdom is..
>
> None. Just a fellow as skilled with his munitions as you are with yours.
>
> None at all.
