On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:57:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I had to deal with this idiocy back in the eighties when I was building > > computers which may have qualified as 'munitions'. > > And remember that books are the purest form of evil and should always be > burned if they have not been published by the gornenment.
Especially those containing crypto source code, as they can be legally exported (OCR fonts, anyone?) I don't know if anyone has tried a test case of a book which contains a uuencoded binary. Welcome to "the land of the free and the home of the brave". > > The current edition of the dictionary is much smaller than the last edition, > and the edition they're working on will be smaller yet. > > You already know what happens in room 101. > > We have always been at war with Oceanna. > > Newscasters never lie and television is the purest form of entertainment. > > Place all of your trust in those in power. Certainly they could not have > gotten there without being honest, hard working, good people could they? No > of course not, don't be silly, the public would reject a corrupt leader. > > And remember to be home by 6:30pm, only criminals are out later than that > and the hard curfew is 7pm after all. Anyone found outside after curfew is > obviously a criminal and quite probably a traitor. > > They want to know where have you been? No, it's all right, they know where > you've been. > > > (Does it sound like I think these export policies are idiotic at the least > and the sign of darker motives clad in the name of Safety and Security at > worst? I thought so.) >
