456 lines
23 KiB
Plaintext
456 lines
23 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
BLAST.famy
|
|
volume 1 ish 6
|
|
Sept 1994
|
|
|
|
|
|
6666666666 666 66666666666
|
|
666 666 666 6 666666666666 66666666666
|
|
666 666 666 66 66 66 666
|
|
666 666 666 66 66 666 666
|
|
666666666 666 666666666666 6666 666
|
|
666 666 666 666 666 66666666666 666
|
|
666 666 666 666 666 6666 666
|
|
666 666 66666666666 666 666 6666 666 666
|
|
666666666666 66666666666 666 666 6666666666666 666
|
|
|
|
F _ A _ M _ Y
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Private World E-zine.
|
|
Publisher = P. W. Casual, pwcasual@io.org
|
|
Editor-in-chief =
|
|
Mark "I'll have you know I'M running this fucking `zine" Jeftovic,
|
|
markjr@io.org
|
|
|
|
+---------------------------------------------------+
|
|
| "the fact that [he] sees deeper makes him an |
|
|
| Outsider; at the same time, he states that |
|
|
| he has `no special genius, no message to |
|
|
| bestow' ...he sees too deep and too much |
|
|
| and what he sees is essentially chaos" |
|
|
| -Colin Wilson |
|
|
+---------------------------------------------------+
|
|
|
|
----------------------------=======================--------------------------
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||| c o n t r i b u t o r s |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
=============================----------------------==========================
|
|
Eric Walker (Modemac) modemac@cambridge.village.com
|
|
(finger `im for a free SubGenius pamplet)
|
|
Engine (Chris Mountford) <cjmount@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>
|
|
Elf elf@hollowtree.org
|
|
Tony `The Interogator' Malone c/o exclaim@io.org
|
|
|
|
-------------------------===============--------------------------
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||| c o n t e n t s ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
=========================---------------==========================
|
|
|
|
DEBUT RANT: individualism by Engine
|
|
!*@# INTERVIEW: anti-racist action by Tony `the Interogator' Malone
|
|
AN OPEN LETTER TO ONE OF MY CREDITORS: by markjr
|
|
NEW NEWSGROUP: alt.destroy.the.internet by Modemac
|
|
FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY: Telnet-ing from a Freenet
|
|
|
|
This is one of the first posts I have initiated, i.e. not a followup.
|
|
All response welcome. Everyone needs a rant now and then.
|
|
|
|
I N D I V I D U A L I S M
|
|
|
|
By Engine. (Chris Mountford)
|
|
|
|
So where are we now? This is the ever lasting question of a thinker.
|
|
Many people have predicted a future which never seemed to come, or
|
|
not quite. 1984 and Brave New World have been discussed here often
|
|
and their inadequacies are clearly seen but not all fears
|
|
have gone away. But as every paranoid conspiracy theorist knows,
|
|
it's a silent war. None of the agents of our slow incarceration,
|
|
skull as jail, are painted in the sinister schema we always
|
|
imagined. The most terrifying torturer wears a menacingly accurate
|
|
loving smile and enters your house almost welcome, through the geometric
|
|
wire spiders on the rooftop and other wired ways.
|
|
|
|
I have a postulate I want to throw at you:
|
|
|
|
Knowledge precludes thought. Gradually we trade the faculties of the latter
|
|
into the inflexible former.
|
|
|
|
Ahhh time.
|
|
|
|
The 60s will never come again. Never will such a small amount of clue
|
|
be distributed to so many.
|
|
|
|
And this is good. They were a generation all preaching individualism
|
|
and now that it's come, the corprate citizens[???] of DollarSpace
|
|
regret this marginalization. We have everything named to unknown,
|
|
goths to ravers, rockers to hackers, newbies, barbies, ferals, grunge
|
|
and deathmetalurgists. There are fucking thousands of generations
|
|
now, of comparable age, yes, often. But fucked if I want to be pinned
|
|
down. That's why I'd rather see us admit that cyberpunk is dead. If it's
|
|
not dead then it should be dead, and I'll volunteer to help with this
|
|
euthenasia. You must admit, Cyberpunk would have wanted it that way.
|
|
Better to kill it while it's still limping than to have it too
|
|
taken over to be another braindead zombie hip-concept for purposes of
|
|
granting Black_Fizzy_Liquid PUSHERS another customized wedge in the
|
|
corporate toolbox. If they keep driving that thin edge under us, we will
|
|
wind up like our BIG BRO TOMORROW. The future *will* come and it's
|
|
gonna be a lot bleaker if we crack like THEY did. Enough DOOM. (fuck
|
|
I hate it when people call "son_of_into_the_eagle's_nest" a virtual
|
|
reality exploration experience)
|
|
|
|
But My buried point is that INDIVIDUALISM is a word that they never
|
|
understood. There will never be another band as popular as The Beatles
|
|
and all the rest of them. This is a good thing. These days it just isn't
|
|
safe to be a generation. Now that things are looking like we are actually
|
|
being the individuals they wished they were, along comes a new hip
|
|
thing. They need a whole toolbox for us and that's a bonus. The
|
|
flower children knew they were misunderstood, but they ended up with
|
|
mobile phones anyway. We must be heading worse if we look out for
|
|
the new Nike ad with whoever that funny old guy is.(!!!!!attention
|
|
this is sarcasm!!!!!)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
|
|
|
You see they were not covering all their bases because while the 80s
|
|
kids wore, ate, drank, went to, watched, played, listened
|
|
to, etc etc, all the Right Things (tm), and, you understand not ONE
|
|
of them was even close to TheRealThing, they forgot
|
|
|
|
Gestalt - the whole is more than the sum of the parts,
|
|
|
|
and overlooked the unifying principal of what to BE.
|
|
This is now ammended. It was a patch job and as a result the
|
|
untethered masses of twentynothings became disenchanted, *again*,
|
|
personally I like to be an optimist and suggest that this slight
|
|
awareness would have come anyway through shunning the saccharine
|
|
taste of a fully determined life. We have to use this to fight
|
|
our newly deigned ID:
|
|
|
|
You are Generation X, the hardest fucking market to crack of all time,
|
|
but we will get this hip stick here and hit this tag with it and
|
|
pretty soon you will be watching commercials like never before,
|
|
ones called MTV and BAYWATCH.
|
|
|
|
Free yourself right now. Don't be GenX, CyberPunk, Zippie <ugh>,
|
|
because once they know your name you are enslaved.
|
|
|
|
Remember that the hippies fell,
|
|
Remain without a name,
|
|
Never be an easy sell,
|
|
Or you'll end up the same.
|
|
|
|
|
|
======================
|
|
__ __ __ ----------------------------------------------
|
|
|_ |\| / _ | |\| |_ Chris Mountford <cjmount@extro.ucc.su.oz.au>
|
|
|__ | | \_) | | | |__ ______________________________________________
|
|
|
|
======================
|
|
|
|
!*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@#
|
|
E X C L A I M M A G A Z I N E I N T E R V I E W
|
|
!*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@#
|
|
|
|
For those of you who were under the impression that !*@# magazine is
|
|
reviews, reviews and nothin' but, think again. You can get more of
|
|
!*@# from their WWW page at http://www.io.org/~pwcasual/exclaim.html.
|
|
Comments or flames regarding the following interview can be directed
|
|
to exclaim@io.org.
|
|
|
|
Anti-Racist Action by Tony "The Interogator" Malone
|
|
|
|
My first awareness of the ARA (Anti-Racist Action) came last summer
|
|
when I read about a clash between skinheads and the ARA outside of
|
|
Sneaky Dee s. The skins were going to make trouble and the ARA
|
|
decided to be there to stomp it, and the confrontation moved down
|
|
the street where some ARA members b
|
|
roke into the office of Gary Shipper (of The Heritage Front white
|
|
supremacist organization) and ransacked the place. I know someone
|
|
who was involved, so I asked him about it. He felt that the love
|
|
your neighbour policy that most Canadians seem to adopt was
|
|
useless against violent uneducated peopl
|
|
e who go out and stomp on the heads of immigrants and homos for
|
|
their evening s pleasure. He said that the only message these
|
|
racists will understand is one that deals on their level,
|
|
specifically that if you are going to do violence against
|
|
helpless people, we re going to show up and stop you an
|
|
y way we see fit . Since the cops are never there when you need
|
|
them, the ARA has decided to beat the racists down with their own
|
|
hands, while spreading information about racist organizations in
|
|
order to educate the public. I spoke to a founding member of the
|
|
ARA to find out more about how they wo
|
|
rk. His last name is omitted because the ARA aren t into publicity
|
|
for their members, as they feel they can t be as effective if they
|
|
become public figures.
|
|
|
|
!@#: The thing I get from your literature is that you want me and
|
|
whoever reads this stuff to know that racist problems that exist
|
|
here (Toronto) are not just unrelated incidents perpetrated by
|
|
individuals, but that there is a network supporting racism that can
|
|
be traced back specifically to earlier racist organizations, and
|
|
that they are growing even now. Tell me how many racist or white
|
|
supremacist organizations there are in the city.
|
|
|
|
Craig: Well, the main organizations of the far right in
|
|
Toronto...of course the Heritage Front is still around, but to a
|
|
certain extent they re crippled by the court cases that are going
|
|
on. There s also still elements of the Church Of The Creator.
|
|
|
|
!: What are the court cases about?
|
|
|
|
C: The human rights hearing has ruled that they CAN run their
|
|
hate-line [a phone number where you can call up and hear racist
|
|
ranting] but now they re up on another charge because I believe
|
|
there was a condition that they couldn t run another hot-line while
|
|
these hearings were going on and they vio
|
|
lated that, and they weren t supposed to talk to the media and they
|
|
violated that too. There are also assault charges from the street
|
|
clash June 11 (last year) which happened after a protest at Gary
|
|
Shipper s house. Wolfgang Droeg is being charged. Ken Barker and
|
|
some others are in trouble for
|
|
robbing a donut store.
|
|
|
|
!: When the ARA shows up for situations like that street clash you
|
|
are into dealing with these people on a street level. If you hear
|
|
they re going to be somewhere, you show up and outnumber them. How
|
|
do you deal with cops?
|
|
|
|
C: You can see if you look at our demonstrations, that the police
|
|
seem to be there to protect the nazis. Now that s not 100% of the
|
|
time but it happened at the courthouse demos.
|
|
|
|
!: Why do you think they do that?
|
|
|
|
C: For various reasons, I guess, I mean, I m not in the police so
|
|
I don t know their mentality, but I know in the police force there
|
|
is a lot of sympathy for far-right activities. A policeman, Const.
|
|
Brad Coulbeck was actually charged with belonging to the Heritage
|
|
Front and organizing for them. I
|
|
n an affidavit from Elise Hategan, one of the people who defected
|
|
from Heritage Front, she gave evidence about Coulbeck and about
|
|
police working with Heritage Front to gain intelligence on
|
|
Anti-Racist Action. There s an incident where they went to a
|
|
Heritage Front organizer s home, handed out phot
|
|
ographs of ARA people and traded intelligence on ARA organizers.
|
|
They have said publicly that we re just as bad , we re a criminal
|
|
organization...
|
|
|
|
!: So they just see you as vigilantes.
|
|
|
|
C: Exactly. You know, they keep saying we re not being political
|
|
in this case, we ll charge the nazis but we ll also charge the
|
|
anti-facists .
|
|
|
|
!: So they re tying you both up.
|
|
|
|
C: A lot of the court dates happen on the same days, or around the
|
|
same times. Often on the same days at the same courthouse.
|
|
|
|
!: Obviously that wouldn t happen by accident. Why would they do
|
|
that?
|
|
|
|
C: I think it s so that we can t hold a demonstration because we re
|
|
too busy worrying about supporting our own people.
|
|
|
|
!: Tell me more about the different factions of people in Toronto
|
|
who are stirring up racism. I want to know what they do. Can I look
|
|
at anything that s concrete? Proof that these people are behind any
|
|
particular thing that happens in the city? Or are they more subtly
|
|
stirring up shit and creating
|
|
an environment where other people are going to go out and do the
|
|
damage?
|
|
|
|
C: There s a fine line there. If you go out and preach hatred and
|
|
spread leaflets all over the place, and you organize nazi
|
|
skinheads..to me that s the exact same thing, if you re organizing
|
|
it..
|
|
|
|
A N O P E N L E T T E R T O A C R E D I T O R
|
|
|
|
Sept. 9/94
|
|
Mr Morset,
|
|
|
|
Rather then calling you on phone and risking losing my temper,
|
|
I have opted to write this. I ask you to take the time to read
|
|
it.
|
|
My name is Mark Jeftovic. My account number is: xxxx xxxx xxxx
|
|
xxxx. Yes, my account is past due, I am aware of that. I would
|
|
like to explain my situation to you in order to illuminate another
|
|
fact, that being: I am not some form of scum, as one of your
|
|
employees (Mrs. Gibson) obviously feels.
|
|
I am a self-employed computer programmer/consultant. This means
|
|
that in the eyes of the government I am never unemployed, and
|
|
thus not eligible for unemployment insurance (however in spite
|
|
of this U.I.C premiums are still deducted from my pay for nebulous
|
|
reasons). I am currently between contracts, however I do manage
|
|
to keep myself busy. Between doing odd freelance programming,
|
|
hardware installations, and sporadic UNIX system administration,
|
|
I get the rent paid (barely), try to put a dent in my student
|
|
loans (for my worth-it's-weight-in-gold college diploma), pay
|
|
some money I owe to my father (who's retired and could actually
|
|
use it now), chip away at various other payables and try to keep
|
|
the phone bills current. After this I have $10 a day to spend
|
|
any way I want. If I have any work to do in the downtown core,
|
|
I by a 2-way TTC fare for 3 dollars, use half the ticket, and walk
|
|
home to St. Clair + Oakwood (about 1.5 hours, 2 if I stop in the
|
|
bookstores on Harbord), so I'll have another ticket for next time.
|
|
Once I get home I usually stay up until about 3am programming my
|
|
next software release. You see for the past two years I have been
|
|
developing various software companions for nationally distributed
|
|
financial-planning textbooks. The deal with these is that I don't
|
|
see a dime until the product ships, because I'm paid per unit.
|
|
I am currently working on one that has me up until the wee
|
|
hours of the morning, programming away, telling myself that it's
|
|
all an investment in the future, hard work and toughing out these
|
|
dismal times can be accomplished. I am also working as a partner
|
|
in a fledgling internet information service. Once again, lot's
|
|
of sweat, no money, it's called "paying your dues". In total
|
|
the above activities add up to anywhere between 40 and 60 hours
|
|
a week of what I consider "productive" activity. This doesn't
|
|
include the time I spend writing articles about the internet
|
|
for various alternative music magazines, playing in a band,
|
|
and publishing an electronic newsletter (these are "creative"
|
|
activities which yield no monetary rewards).
|
|
On weekends I get to go to London and see my girlfriend for two
|
|
days. (How do I afford to go to London every week? I get a ride down
|
|
with a friend, and for the return trip I get a ride with someone else
|
|
in exchange for helping him load his truck).
|
|
Contrary to what Mrs. Gibson would think, I do not think of myself
|
|
as "lazy". I do not "have a chip on my shoulder". As far as "getting
|
|
off my butt and paying my bills" I'm working on it, however I resent
|
|
that tone of dialogue. I do not think I'm the one with the "attitude
|
|
problem".
|
|
Mrs. Gibson has accomplished nothing more than to have Bank of
|
|
Montreal MasterCard bumped to the bottom of my list of creditors.
|
|
Your dept. now has lowest priority on my list of "bills I should
|
|
pay now that I have some money". (I usually make it about three-
|
|
quarters of the way down before I run out).
|
|
In the future I wish all correspondence between our parties
|
|
to take place via e-mail, REAL email, don't waste postage on
|
|
those bogus "Electronic Letter" mailings. My email address is
|
|
markjr@io.org -and if you don't have email, get with the times.
|
|
(Furthermore, your department shall refer to me as Mr. Jeftovic
|
|
in all future communications).
|
|
|
|
Understand me clearly, I will accept no more 9am phone calls from
|
|
your staff. It has been two days in row so far, (I sent in a payment
|
|
last week), if one of your stultified zombies calls on Monday morning,
|
|
I'm just going to screen them out.
|
|
|
|
Have a nice day.
|
|
|
|
DESTROYITKILLITBLOWTHEFUCKERUPERADICATEITSOMEHOWITMUSTBESTOPPEDNOWAAGGHHH!!!!
|
|
|
|
alt.destroy.the.internet by Modemac
|
|
|
|
Welcome to alt.destroy.the.internet! It's the Usenet group whose
|
|
ultimate goal is nothing less than the destruction of the Internet, that
|
|
menace to society whose very existence threatens the lives of countless
|
|
millions of people...or at least countless millions of dollars.
|
|
|
|
Why destroy the Internet? The answer to this can be found by looking at
|
|
the users of the newsgroup. These users can be grouped into three (very)
|
|
loose categories:
|
|
|
|
1) THE INTERNET IS A MENACE TO SOCIETY! These people are the ones who
|
|
KNOW they're right, and they delight in dictating their opinions to
|
|
others, secure in the knowledge that their opinions will be taken as
|
|
gospel. The media barons, the politicians, the self-proclaimed Watchdogs
|
|
of Society...these are the people whose existence is threatened by the
|
|
Internet. The Internet actually dares to make all of its users EQUAL,
|
|
and anyone can question anyone else's opinion. The Internet
|
|
allows the transmission of uncensored news and information, free
|
|
of the modifications made to it by newspapers, magazines, radio
|
|
and TV. This concept of free thought and questioning of authority is a
|
|
dangerous one! So to preserve the status quo, where the few tell the
|
|
many what to think, THE INTERNET MUST BE DESTROYED!
|
|
|
|
2) THE INTERNET THREATENS BUSINESS! An entire industry has been built on
|
|
the structure of society, where the mindless masses sit at home while
|
|
messages are beamed at them twenty-four hours a day - on TV, on the
|
|
radio, in newspapers and magazines, on billboards, in the mail, and in
|
|
any other form that can be conceived. Billions and billions of dollars in
|
|
profits are made from advertising in this manner...and best of all, the
|
|
public doesn't even have much of an opportunity to speak out against it.
|
|
But the Internet is largely opposed to mass, in-your-face
|
|
advertising...look at what happens when those brave pioneers, Canter &
|
|
Seigel and Skinny Dip Thigh Cream, actually dared to do an in-your-face
|
|
ad on Usenet! People are actually able to speak out against
|
|
advertising...what's more, they can question the content of advertising -
|
|
so that messages can't be beamed directly into their heads the way they
|
|
can on TV! And as the Internet becomes more popular, traditional
|
|
advertising methods (the backbone of standard media) are being
|
|
threatened! Billions of dollars in profits are are risk! So, to
|
|
preserve the status quo and make sure that the advertising industry
|
|
remains safe and secure, THE INTERNET MUST BE DESTROYED!
|
|
|
|
But the largest group consists of users who say:
|
|
|
|
3) THE INTERNET IS A PAIN IN THE ASS! The terrible lag, the sudden
|
|
dropped carriers, bandwidth-wasting, time-wasting utilities like IRC and
|
|
MUDs, thousands and thousands of useless Usenet messages, mass Spammings,
|
|
poorly-written sex stories...not to mention the urge to KILL you get when
|
|
the message, or file that you've just spent the past SIX HOURS writing
|
|
suddenly vanishes into the black hole of the Net because your system has
|
|
just frozen...it's such a royal PAIN! People get so damn frustrated at
|
|
the Net, and they just want to go somewhere to vent their frustrations at
|
|
this so-called miracle of modern technology. The Internet? BAH! Who
|
|
needs it?!? Let's just DESTROY THE INTERNET so that we never have to
|
|
deal with the damn thing again!! AAARGH!!!
|
|
|
|
The cries of outrage from the vast numbers of people who comprise these
|
|
three groups of anti-Netters demanded the creaton of
|
|
alt.destroy.the.internet. This newsgroup is here to serve a vital,
|
|
sacred purpose: for people to discuss (and hopefully carry out) various
|
|
wasy of destroying the Internet once and for all...and above all, to HAVE
|
|
FUN while doing so! For the college student and office worker who has
|
|
had a lousy day and just wants to let off steam, this is the place to
|
|
go. Coinspiracy theorists, anarchists, and people with a SICK AND
|
|
TWISTED SENSE OF HUMOR are all welcome here.
|
|
|
|
So come one, come all! The masses CRY OUT for the destruction of that
|
|
creeping, crawling DISEASE that is known by the Great Unwashed as THE
|
|
INTERNET! Cross-post this message to your favorite weird and sick
|
|
newsgroup, and pester your newsadmin to carry alt.destroy.the.internet!
|
|
|
|
SMASH THE NET!
|
|
|
|
|
|
((((((((((((((((((( FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY )))))))))))))))))))))
|
|
|
|
After looking over BLAST.famy's subscription list (which now
|
|
spans 7 countries, btw) and noticing a fair number of Freenet
|
|
subscribers, I thought I'd include this post from alt.hackers,
|
|
so they can, uh, report this to their system administrators.
|
|
|
|
|
|
How to Hack a Telnet Session Off a Freenet
|
|
by elf@hollowtree.org
|
|
|
|
The following may be old news to the initiated, but I was
|
|
delighted to find it.
|
|
|
|
Several Freenets have undocumented open telnet available.
|
|
This usually does not appear to be intentional. The
|
|
following is one way to access telnet.
|
|
|
|
Go to your Freenet's Gopher server and and do a Veronica
|
|
search for "tools and surfing". The SUNET server seems
|
|
to work best. Sometimes it takes several tries to find
|
|
"Tools for Surfing the Internet".
|
|
|
|
After you find "Tools for Surfing the Internet" at
|
|
"service.more.net", work your way through the menus
|
|
until you come to the "Open Telnet" item. You can
|
|
now telnet *anywhere* (not just the sanitized menu
|
|
which most freenets offer.
|
|
|
|
This feature is disabled on some systems. It would not work
|
|
on Erlangen Freenet. It did work on Ciao! (ciao.trail.bc),
|
|
COIN (bigcat.missouri.edu) and the majority of others I tried.
|
|
|
|
If you have a local freenet, this may provide free net access
|
|
for you.
|
|
|
|
P.S. Open FTP is available using the same method.
|
|
==============================================================================
|
|
TO SUBSCRIBE TO THIS EZINE = email pwcasual@io.org and say "sign me up!"
|
|
==============================================================================
|