I think the end result of our conversation should be:

Yes, you should definitely come to JavaOne this year, despite any  
illnesses you may see on the news. JavaOne is going to be rockin'.
:)

On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Christian Catchpole wrote:

>
> Im resisting commenting on the debate... but here goes. :)
>
> I was always anti-gun.  Probably because I live in Australia and hand-
> guns are not part of our culture the same way they are in the US.
> I've never held one.  Only saw them on police men and in US gun
> shops.  An American asked me how I could stand the fact that the
> government restricts my right to have one... but I never really
> thought about it.  I didn't know I wanted one. :)
>
> I wouldn't mind owning a sword.  I'd be upset if someone told me I
> couldn't have one of those.
>
> The government controls "dangerous things".  My father needed a
> license to maintain a certain amount of arsenic.
>
> I guess if we were all vampires the government might want to control
> garlic.
>
> I'm a civil liberties kind of guy buy I understand the extreme of this
> would be some kind of anarchy.
>
> I find it a breach of civil liberties that US companies drug test
> their staff.  You don't get that in Australia.  But drug usage in
> Australia is different (I'm not going to claim better - just
> different).
>
> I'm not really sure what my point is or if I really have one. :)
>
> CC
>
>
> >


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