On Oct 21, 5:46 pm, Simon Quellen Field <sfi...@scitoys.com> wrote:

If you're worried about the government tracking you for associating with this list, you are reading too many thrillers.

Some of us are definitely on some government watch list for being on this group. (With that said, it's not such a big deal to be tracked by the government. Many researchers are.) Search the archives for "Monitor 360." The results were presented to a government agency with three letter acronym. I saw the "film canister" project on your web site -- I used to build those too, in grade school -- nowadays those kinds of projects really do get kids in trouble. The stimulus bill of 2009 also included $100 million or more for funding of specific government agencies for homeland security, including biosecurity. The previous homeland security measures allocated resources similarly. The government has the money, the time, and the tumor-like growth to cause pain (in addition to doing good as well) to private citizens exercising free rights. It's better to be transparent though, I'd say (meaning private citizens with any concern should advertise what they're doing, in the most boring techno-speak possible, so much so, that no one, including government, cares at all). Just say "no" to sensationalism. Unless it's positive-spin sensationalism. (By that guideline, "outlaw" does not jive.) Technological innovation has been hampered -- truly hampered -- due to government protectionist policies, as well as "public perception". So to exacerbate this, by adding even 1% towards negative sensationalism, is foolish. ## Jonathan Cline ## jcline@ieee.org ## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223 ######################## --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group. To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE