"Except Utah is not in the South by anybody's definition." I was in Salt Lake City this very morning, and for some reason a lot of people sport southern accents. I suspect that's because of a "cultural vacuum" effect whereby there's not enough local identity to latch onto so they "import" some. Also as it happens I saw that WIERD Temple downtown there, and asked "Sister Johnson" if she really believed God was a guy kicked back in a Laz-Z-Boy on the planet Kolab. She could not tell me decisely that this was not the case. Is Hatch a Mormon? -TD

From: Tim May <timcmay@got.net> To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: Destroying computers Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:59:59 -0700

On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 07:41 AM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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At 01:07 AM 6/19/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:

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Methinks Mr Hatch is not a very bright man.

A Southern senator. Need I say more?

Except Utah is not in the South by anybody's definition.

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Of course, that astronomy Professor Usher would be pretty bummed when his research was toasted by an RIAA killbot, but then the Prof employs a

provocatory surname, no? "Collateral damage" -hey, he could change his name, after all. Maybe to David Nelson :-)

I was going to mention Prof. Usher in a follow-up I was mentally planning a few minutes ago.

For those who may not have heard about him, he's a retired astronomy prof. who included a .MP3 of one of his own songs on his Web site. The record company conglomerate representing the negro minstrel named "Usher" somehow found his site, found that it had .MP3 files, and made the assumption the site was pirating the minstrel Usher's music. They fired off threatening letters and demanded action.

Had Orrin Hatche's seek and destroy software been available, his site would have been toast.

When the record company was informed of the truth, they proposed to send him a free Usher t-shirt. Just what a retired white astronomy prof wants, the t-shirt of a negro rap crapper.

--Tim May

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