At 8:28 PM -0700 9/3/97, Sean Roach wrote:

At 03:43 AM 9/4/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: ...

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With this wonderful sucess, We can all look forward to this items being placed in our domiciles in order to further protect us from crime.

And I'll give my kids a can of spray paint and a ladder. Maybe I'll offer bonus prizes if they can figure out an inventive, undetectable way to disable the fucker. ... In Altus, it is illegal to sell spray paint to persons under the age of 18. That makes two violations of their rights that I know of. The curfue which was enacted a couple years ago being the first. All because the local politicians are fully aware that they are too young to vote.

In my community, it is even illegal to buy spray paints and give them or make them available to those under some age (18 or 21...I don't know). I like my solution a lot better: anyone can buy the fucking spray paint, but taggers are shot down by those whose property they're trespassing on. Seems consistent with personal freedom and responsibility. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- 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."