Quothe acme(a)ao.net, from writings of Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:22:23PM -0500: That is simply needless bureucracy intended to prevent people from earning a living, which aims to reduce competition against larger businesses. It appears quite ridiculous to spend one's time and money on needless bureaucracy if one is doing something such as computer consulting, or selling artwork that one creates, under one's own name, in which case no one needs to deal with any fictitious name hogwash. What's next, computer licenses? How many members of this group would comply with bureaucracy like that? Just something to think about. This reminds me of when I had to create a fictious corporate name, back when I was in college, just so I could purchase difficult to find semiconductors from sales 'droids at electronics distributors. They refused to sell me anything unless I was a business... so, I simply told them I was one and made up a name to go with it. By doing so, I got quite a few freebies as well (if big companies can get such freebies, why shouldn't electronics hobbyists?), and got into an electronics trade show too, where I got enough samples, product literature, databooks, etc. to fill up the car's entire front seat, floor area and a fairly large part of the back seat. ...and I got a free pit-beef sandwich as well at that trade show. :-) -- 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.