From mark_galeck at pacbell.net Sat Dec 4 04:51:01 2004 From: mark_galeck at pacbell.net (Mark Galeck) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:51:01 -0800 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Copied from Alcor-N: Alternative Cryofeast only for those who can't make it Jan 2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <004301c4d9bc$dad5a4d0$20336f45@andromeda> Hello, (sorry for double posting) Tim and Hara are organising the Cryofeast (and training?) on the weekend Jan2. Only if you can't attend that day because you are away around Jan 1 holiday, please let me know privately (and your date preferences) and we can have an alternative Cryofeast another day. I just want to make clear: this is not in any way meant as a "competition" to the official Alcor-North Cryofeast - please do attend that one if you can. Only if you can't because of the date so close to Jan 1, let me know. If we have enough people (I don't know what number "enough" is) then I will privately organise this among that group. Thank you, Mark G. From tim at fungible.com Sat Dec 4 03:53:50 2004 From: tim at fungible.com (Tim Freeman) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:53:50 -0700 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Alcor Northern California get-together January 2 @ 6pm; meeting @ 4pm Message-ID: <200412040457.iB44vhPV018765@lobus.fungible.com> We'll have our annual holiday get-together January 2, 2005 at my place, 381 N Fernwood Circle, Sunnyvale, CA, at 6pm. Please bring something you'd like to eat, and we'll share. Jane and I will bake a turkey. Before the 6pm meal, people interested in talking about cryonics without the distraction of food can come at 4pm. Non-Alcor members are welcome. -- Tim Freeman http://www.fungible.com tim at fungible.com Programmer/consultant in the Sunnyvale, CA area. I'm presently available. From amara at amara.com Tue Dec 14 15:22:15 2004 From: amara at amara.com (Amara Graps) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:22:15 +0100 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] John Perry Barlow vs The Man Message-ID: Dear Bay Area extropes: tomorrow, December 15, you can show your support... A few days ago, Boing-boing (http://boingboing.net) alerted me to a story posted by John Perry Barlow about an incident one year ago, that he feels that he can disclose to the public now. Barlow was arrested in September 2003 at the San Francisco Airport and charged with the misdemeanor possession of controlled substances that had allegedly been discovered during a search of his checked baggage. He was requested to get off the plane (which was about to take off) by an attendant, who escorted him to the baggage claim area. Barlow says at his Blog (http://barlow.typepad.com/barlowfriendz/2004/12/a_taste_of_the_.html) : "He led me to an office in the baggage claim area that was thicker with cops than some banana republics. They greeted me with same distaste they'd likely have shown an actual terrorist and treated me accordingly for the remainder of that very long day. On the counter lay small quantities of marijuana (for which I have a physician's recommendation), mushrooms, and ketamine that had allegedly been encountered in my suitcase. That the total volume of this prize was significantly more compact than the amount of high explosive necessary to endanger an aircraft, and indeed, insufficient to merit a felony charge on any count, didn't matter to them. They clearly regarded me as a threat to public safety. When I pointed out to the officials that they only had authority to search for threats to the aircraft, one of them, a bug-eyed, crew-cutted troglodyte, declared that, if I had taken any of these substances, then I would have endangered Flight 310. That such an obviously ungifted person was capable of so imaginative a conceptual leap remains a marvel to me." Barlow spent the day locked up in the Redwood City jail, and not being given access to any of his documents or to a phonebook, he contacted one of his daughters who contacted another EFF co-founder, John Gilmore, who put up the $25,000 in cash to spring Barlow. They couldn't have chosen a better person for the task, because, besides having the money, and demonstrating a few more civil liberties principles to the jail attendants, Gilmore has experience fighting airport security laws. Rather than taking the path of least resistance in this case, the two have now chosen to make a particular case out of Barlow's incident, stating that a law has been broken, and they would like to make this a precendent against TSA's routinely over-broad searches of checked bags. Those of you living in the San Francisco Bay Area, take note. Barlow says: "On December 15, at 2:00 pm, I will pay yet another visit to the North San Mateo County Courthouse in South San Francisco. This time I expect I will actually get a chance to plead my case. (Any interested Bay Area BarlowFriendz are invited to attend. It should be pretty decent theater.)" I recommend reading Barlow's full blog on this story. Amara -- Amara Graps, PhD www.amara.com Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Adjunct Assistant Professor Astronomy, AUR, Roma, ITALIA Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it From sentience at pobox.com Mon Dec 20 04:10:18 2004 From: sentience at pobox.com (Eliezer Yudkowsky) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:10:18 -0500 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Warning of impending Yudkowsky in Bay area Message-ID: <41C650AA.4000608@pobox.com> I am scheming to move to California before the end of January. I have not yet selected an apartment, but I'm currently looking in the Hayward area. Advice on where to move is welcome; I am looking for an apartment as such, rather than a room in someone's basement. Low cost of living is a concern. My current plot is to fly in January 1-8 (Saturday to Saturday) to look at apartments and attend Cryofeast. I have not yet bought the ticket, but plan to do so very soon. If anyone has an offer of crash space for these days, or for a significant segment of these days, it would be much appreciated. -- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence From kenhuck at jps.net Tue Dec 21 21:34:42 2004 From: kenhuck at jps.net (Ken Huck) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 13:34:42 -0800 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Warning of impending Yudkowsky in Bay area In-Reply-To: <41C650AA.4000608@pobox.com> References: <41C650AA.4000608@pobox.com> Message-ID: <19381115150626.10675@smtp.onemain.com> Hello Eliezer, Amica and I live in San Jose. I remember you from the Extro 5 Conference in 2001. And we would like to host you for the 1st week of January 2005. Amica and I will be going to the Cryofeast and may be able to help you with transportation in other ways. Email back if this sounds appealing to you. ken huck Susten(R) Building Systems "We build in comfort and economy(sm)" kenhuck at jps.net mobile (828) 273-5334 land (408) 223-1303 >I am scheming to move to California before the end of January. I have not >yet selected an apartment, but I'm currently looking in the Hayward area. >Advice on where to move is welcome; I am looking for an apartment as such, >rather than a room in someone's basement. Low cost of living is a concern. > >My current plot is to fly in January 1-8 (Saturday to Saturday) to look at >apartments and attend Cryofeast. I have not yet bought the ticket, but >plan to do so very soon. If anyone has an offer of crash space for these >days, or for a significant segment of these days, it would be much >appreciated. > >-- >Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ >Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence >_______________________________________________ >exi-bay-announce mailing list >exi-bay-announce at lists.extropy.org >http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/exi-bay-announce