At 02:52 PM 8/1/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Politicians have too much trouble justifying their existence to let a chance like this slip through.
Hahahaha. Actually, I'm starting to feel sorry for politicans, especially the folks in Congress. Think of it: They have such crude tools available to them. They can hold hearings or introduce legislation -- that's about it. Not much in the way of options. Poor saps. We should provide more creative outlets for them. Thus we get wacky attempts like Sen. Torricelli's don't-email-someone-unless-you-want-to-go-to-jail bill I wrote about for Wired today. -Declan
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 02:52 PM 8/1/01 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
Politicians have too much trouble justifying their existence to let a chance like this slip through.
Hahahaha. Actually, I'm starting to feel sorry for politicans, especially the folks in Congress. Think of it: They have such crude tools available to them. They can hold hearings or introduce legislation -- that's about it. Not much in the way of options. Poor saps. We should provide more creative outlets for them.
Thus we get wacky attempts like Sen. Torricelli's don't-email-someone-unless-you-want-to-go-to-jail bill I wrote about for Wired today.
It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were going to do about cereal killers. (Of course, I don't think I could keep a straight face in the building, let alone in front of those goons...) alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman
At 01:40 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were going to do about cereal killers.
You mean those who put ketchup on their corn flakes ;-) steve
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Steve Schear wrote:
At 01:40 AM 8/2/2001 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
It would be worth it to go just for the purpose of asking what they were going to do about cereal killers.
You mean those who put ketchup on their corn flakes ;-)
Actually I had this image of Microsoft getting involved in the hearings and complaining about Open Source Cereal. Now I have this image of "what if O'Reilly made cereal". ("These sendmail flakes are REALLY tough!" "Well you don't want to think about the "Mastering Regular Expression Pops!") Remember: Coffee *before* posting! alan@ctrl-alt-del.com | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen | to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman
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