CA gun registration, Canada, and civil disobedience

2000-10-25 Thread Nomen Nescio
The upcoming deadline for CA's "Assault Weapon Registration" has weighed heavily upon my thoughts for some time. The blank registration form sits on my desk, staring back at me every time my eyes wander away from the screen. Registrant Last Name, Registrant First Name, Registrant Middle Name, DO

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RE: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Bill Stewart
At 03:19 PM 10/25/00 -0400, Matt Elliott wrote: >>I am puzzled why anybody would have bothered to answer the remaining >>questions. > >I did the same thing and the census worker came by 4 times trying to get my >wife or I to divulge more information. that's because you failed to say the magic wor

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Bill Stewart
I'd been planning to take the Fifth and write a rant to go with it explaining why. There were half a dozen things wrong with the forms and associated package purely aside from the questions themselves. But it wasn't a high priority, so I ended up not returning the form. At 09:45 AM 10/25/00 -040

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread jim bell
- Original Message - X-Loop: openpgp.net From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When the Census form eventually arrived I got the short one. I > answered only the question about the number of adults living at the > address. I wrote "Aryan" for my race...I figured if the "favored > minorities

RE: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Matt Elliott
>I am puzzled why anybody would have bothered to answer the remaining >questions. I did the same thing and the census worker came by 4 times trying to get my wife or I to divulge more information. -- Matt ElliottHigh Performance Data Management Team 217-265-0257

Re: Filters

2000-10-25 Thread Tim May
At 1:39 PM -0400 10/25/00, Ray Dillinger wrote: > > >The v-chip does *not* prevent programming from reaching my home - >it doesn't even prevent programming from reaching the homes of >those who've willingly purchased and installed it, but it prevents >stuff they'd find objectionable from being dis

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Greg Broiles
At 12:38 PM 10/25/00 -0400, David Honig wrote: >Real-To: David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >At 09:45 AM 10/25/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > >I didn't answer even that question. I did not return the form. > > > >My result was the same as yours: No visits or inquiries. > > > >That's a shame.

Filters

2000-10-25 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, David Honig wrote: >At 08:06 PM 10/24/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: >>If nobody comes up with some filterware that works, then there will >>probably be continuing pressure to regulate content. > >Its called 'parenting' but most are too busy, so they ask the State, or >m

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Tim May
At 12:38 PM -0400 10/25/00, David Honig wrote: >At 09:45 AM 10/25/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >>I didn't answer even that question. I did not return the form. >> >>My result was the same as yours: No visits or inquiries. >> >>That's a shame. If I get fined $100, I can write a column about my

Re: I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story

2000-10-25 Thread David Honig
At 02:15 PM 10/24/00 -0400, Craig Brozefsky wrote: >I suppose one could say that the bundling of ISP services with the >default Windows install increased the rate of new internet users >significantly, but the explosive growth has already started by then. I've come to see that it was the kink of t

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread David Honig
At 09:45 AM 10/25/00 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: >I didn't answer even that question. I did not return the form. > >My result was the same as yours: No visits or inquiries. > >That's a shame. If I get fined $100, I can write a column about my >experience and sell it for much more. > >-Declan

RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

2000-10-25 Thread David Honig
At 08:06 PM 10/24/00 -0400, Ray Dillinger wrote: >If nobody comes up with some filterware that works, then there will >probably be continuing pressure to regulate content. Its called 'parenting' but most are too busy, so they ask the State, or machines (censorware, v-chips, rating systems, etc

Gort in granny-shades (was Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?)

2000-10-25 Thread David Honig
At 08:08 PM 10/24/00 -0400, Tim May wrote: > >Nonsense, on at least a couple of accounts. I was active in the image >processing field in 1980-84, and attended various SIGGRAPHs and >suchlike. Fact is, "ray tracing" and various illumination models, and >Gouraud and Phong shading and all the rest

Re: Al Gore goes cypherpunk?

2000-10-25 Thread Harmon Seaver
Declan McCullagh wrote: > Perhaps this is one reason why Ralph Nader is reportedly drawing > crowds of 5,000 at rallies. He's active: Bashing Gore, attacking > corporations, etc. No philosophical twaddle (oh, it might have its > place but not in politics) about landing on someone's balcony and >

Re: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Declan McCullagh
I didn't answer even that question. I did not return the form. My result was the same as yours: No visits or inquiries. That's a shame. If I get fined $100, I can write a column about my experience and sell it for much more. -Declan On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 04:08:42AM -0400, Lucky Green wrote

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Re: voteauction moves offshore

2000-10-25 Thread Tom Vogt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >"Theyre in defiance of a legitimate court order and in contempt of the >American judicial >system," Leach said of Bernhard and the others involved in Vote-auction.com. once again, the US court system ignores the unpleasant fact that there are other count

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RE: why should it be trusted?

2000-10-25 Thread Lucky Green
Nathan Saper wrote: > I think the government has a right to do whatever it needs to do > to maintain > the health and well-being of its population. That is the purpose of > the government. What is going on? Where are all these communists and fascists coming from that are populating our list nowa

RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives

2000-10-25 Thread Lucky Green
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Ray Dillinger > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 17:06 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: RE: Wired News tech scorecard for U.S. House of Representatives > I think that filtering software is an

RE: Congress proposes raiding census records.

2000-10-25 Thread Lucky Green
I only answered the first question in the last census: how many people live at that address (or something to that effect). The rest I crossed out with fat black permanent marker. The result: no visits from the census taker. No inquiries from the Census Office. No fine. No repercussions of any kind