Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War, dummies, ...)

Quothe Jeffrey S. Worley, from writings of Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:39:56PM -0500: [...] Like many others on this list, I had to sign up for Uncle Sam Screwge's draft at the local post office, but at least now I'm too old to have to go. Sorry that he and 'W'easelboy's daddy snagged you into the gulf-war as one of their experimental guinnea pigs. Hopefully you won't get called back into part II of the Bush/Hussein family feud. By the way... today the Sears repairman arrived to verify the validity of complaints from my parents about their new washer and dryer (absolute pieces of cheaply-made and annoying junk - beware) that replaced approx. 25 and 35 year old machines that were well made and worked nicely (until Sears/Whirlpool discontinued parts to repair them with). His eyes nearly popped out of his head as he looked around at my collection of electronics and computer equipment; as he was leaving, he remarked that he hopes that no one calls the eff b aye about what all I have, as they might think I'm "building a satellite or something." Zog! Now, are those of us in the US to be considered criminals because we collect, build and hack all sorts of computer and electronics equipment as a harmless hobby (or is the knowledge and ability to do this now considered dangerous by our elected idiots, since they obviously lack the ability to think intelligently about anything?)? -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.