Rick Eversole wrote:
Lastly for the truly paranoid: Just about anything can be made explosive if you "try hard enough" ... I believe that we should totally ban all dihydrogen monoxide, it kills people daily, as little as 4 ounces can be fatal. It can be broken down into an explosive compound with common household items. It passes all current security checks, and therefore can easily be transported undetected and converted on-site... Ban all dihydrogen monoxide ... also the related compound hydrogen hydroxide.
The sad thing is, they're in a mindset where someone could propose this as a joke, and they'd jump all over it, taking it seriously. If it was fast-tracked enough, it could become law before someone points out, "you just banned water!" (Some might even try to keep it on the books after that, since it gives legal pretext to arrest anyone - except possibly a cremated or dessicated corpse - for possession of water, but I don't think the administration as a whole is far enough gone that such a law would last long.) Dragging this back on topic: given this mindset of theirs, what are the implications for regulatory affairs? In particular, I'm wondering if this is sufficient justification for limiting disclosure to the government? If they don't need to know, they don't get to know, lest they get scared and ban what we're doing out of reflex. I feel there's something wrong with that approach, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
