Re: Photographing Dams

2001-10-03 Thread David Honig
At 09:04 PM 10/2/01 -0400, The Amphibian Anti Defamation League wrote: (That's a base canard on frogs, by the way. A few years back some scientist boiled a frog slowly. The frog hopped out of the water as soon as it got uncomfortably warm.) Yes but its so useful its worth keeping around

Re: Photographing Dams

2001-10-02 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: Tim May wrote: I know that I if I am ever stopped for photographing a dam or a bridge I hope I'll have the courage to tell the cop to fuck off. If arrested on such a bogus charge, things will escalate dramatically and I would

Re: Photographing Dams

2001-10-02 Thread Steve Furlong
Tim May wrote: On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Steve Furlong wrote: Tim May wrote: I know that I if I am ever stopped for photographing a dam or a bridge I hope I'll have the courage to tell the cop to fuck off. If arrested on such a bogus charge, things will escalate

Re: Photographing Dams

2001-10-02 Thread Declan McCullagh
I wrote in January about a Capitol Police (federal) cop telling me I couldn't take a photo of the Capitol building from a public sidewalk: http://www.politechbot.com/p-01636.html Not an urban legend. -Declan On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:47:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't there cases

Re: Photographing Dams

2001-10-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
Tim May wrote: Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and the C. in general. There certain is no requirement to cooperate. Where to do otherwise intelligent people pick up these bizarre ideas? Probably because of all the heretofore unheard of things happening to people in the courts these

Photographing Dams

2001-10-02 Thread Tim May
There have been several panicky calls that Arabs were seen at national tourist spots, including photographing the Hoover Dam. Some on Usenet are calling for steps to crack down on these photographers. This is an article I wrote for Usenet: This is not the Soviet Union. Anyone may photograph