At 1:22 AM -0800 12/20/96, Vangelis wrote:
Bill Stewart wrote:
I've heard that in less civilized parts of the world you're actually required to carry government-issued ID cards to walk down the street or fly on airplanes.
Umm.. tried to get on a flight without having ID lately? Doesn't work - against policy. Anti-terrorism policy and all.. it's for your own safety, of course.
At the risk of undercutting Bill's facetiousness, this was of course precisely his point. (Note: To a lot of us, even seeing the English form "I've heard that in less civilized countries...." is almost a direct cue that a facetious (tongue in cheek, ironic, etc.) remark is about to follow.) I've heard that in less civilized countries, the same cues for irony may not be widely known. --Tim May Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside" We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."