On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:47:27 -0700 (PDT), Z.B. wrote:

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At 09:24 PM 9/12/96 -0700, zachb@netcom.com wrote:

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(Also in today's news, the 9th Circuit upheld a CA statute forbidding sales of material considered "harmful to minors" from vending machines.)

Even if this statute is meant only to apply to cigarette machines, which would seem to be the case given all of the anti-cig stuff going on now, what good will it do?

Whoops. Sorry. Wrong context. What I should have said was "the 9th Circuit upheld a CA statute forbidding sales of *printed* material considered 'harmful to minors' from unsupervised vending machines". The publication(s)

It's still mostly the same thing. I've never seen the type of machine that you're talking about, and I don't think anyone would be dumb enough to install one in a store that is near a school, or frequented my minors. This law just does not seem like a very good idea.

Where did you live? I used to walk home from school (in Ventura, CA - about 1 hour away from LA) and see a vending machine selling copies of "LA X-Press" (Or something like that) right next to the vending machines for the Star-Free Press and the LA Times. This was on the curb by a busy shopping center, on the block opposite of the County of Ventura's government center. Hypothetically, it was even plausibly deniable (the watchword of the Clintons) - "I was just buying this copy of the newspaper." And before someone asks, no, I wasn't buying them. # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams@acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell