On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 02:52 PM 8/1/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Politicians have too much trouble justifying their existence to let a chance like this slip through.
Hahahaha. Actually, I'm starting to feel sorry for politicans, especially the folks in Congress. Think of it: They have such crude tools available to them. They can hold hearings or introduce legislation -- that's about it. Not much in the way of options. Poor saps. We should provide more creative outlets for them.
Thus we get wacky attempts like Sen. Torricelli's don't-email-someone-unless-you-want-to-go-to-jail bill I wrote about for Wired today.
It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were going to do about cereal killers. (Of course, I don't think I could keep a straight face in the building, let alone in front of those goons...) alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman