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[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.