crypto and bagpipes [NOISE]
A Missive From: David Kovar (kovar@nda.com)
What is the connection between crypto and bagpipes? Well crypto is regarded as an armament by the US ITAR regulations. Later this month a British court is to rule as to whether bagpipes are still classified as "instruments of war"! The story is in today's Times newspaper (The British one) It seems that a piper is being taken to court for practising on Hampstead Heath, which has a bye-law forbidding music. Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied the charge, citing a case in 1746, where bagpipes were declared to be instruments of war, not musical instruments, and a subsequent Act of Parliament which specifically stated that they were weapons. He claims he wasn't playing a musical instrument, but practising with a weapon!
The imagination boggles if his claim is successful! Will it be possible to sue pipers for assault with a deadly weapon? Will airports be equipped with bagpipe detectors?
David Wadsworth | Wohin der Weg? Kein Weg! dwadsw@etna.demon.co.uk | Ins Unbetretene. (Faust)
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vinnie moscaritolo writes:
A Missive From: David Kovar (kovar@nda.com) [...] Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied the charge, citing a case in 1746, where bagpipes were declared to be instruments of war, not musical instruments, and a subsequent Act of Parliament which specifically stated that they were weapons. He claims he wasn't playing a musical instrument, but practising with a weapon!
The imagination boggles if his claim is successful!
No one who has heard sustained bagpipe playing can deny the fact that bagpipes are indeed an instrument of war, with no legitimate place in peaceful everyday society. Perry
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 27-Jun-96 Re: crypto and bagpipes [NO.. by "Perry E. Metzger"@pierm
No one who has heard sustained bagpipe playing can deny the fact that bagpipes are indeed an instrument of war, with no legitimate place in peaceful everyday society.
Hmm... Carnegie Mellon University is the only school in the country with a bagpipe major, you know. You haven't lived until you've heard a screeching 'pipe at 3 am in front of Hunt Library. -Declan
On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 27-Jun-96 Re: crypto and bagpipes [NO.. by "Perry E. Metzger"@pierm
No one who has heard sustained bagpipe playing can deny the fact that bagpipes are indeed an instrument of war, with no legitimate place in peaceful everyday society.
Hmm... Carnegie Mellon University is the only school in the country with a bagpipe major, you know. You haven't lived until you've heard a screeching 'pipe at 3 am in front of Hunt Library.
And after, you _aren't_ alive. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@crash.suba.com
Damnit, Perry, the fact that you don't like them doesn't mean we should outlaw them! :) Adam Perry E. Metzger wrote: | vinnie moscaritolo writes: | > >>>A Missive From: David Kovar (kovar@nda.com) | [...] | > >>>Mr Brooks, the piper, has denied the charge, citing a case in 1746, | > >>>where bagpipes were declared to be instruments of war, not musical | > >>>instruments, and a subsequent Act of Parliament which specifically | > >>>stated that they were weapons. He claims he wasn't playing a musical | > >>>instrument, but practising with a weapon! | > >>> | > >>>The imagination boggles if his claim is successful! | | No one who has heard sustained bagpipe playing can deny the fact that | bagpipes are indeed an instrument of war, with no legitimate place in | peaceful everyday society. | | Perry | -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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