Electric Bagpipe shuts down jetport

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Stewart
[Forwarded from the MacDude list, where we're all very happy for another reminder that bagpipes are respected as military weapons and not just as musical instruments ] http://www.pressherald.com/news/local/040114jetport.shtml An electronic bagpipe packed in a length of PVC pipe looked so

US Census Data Used in Government Passenger Profiling Test

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Stewart
Several sources have been reporting that NorthWest Airlines are yet another group of collaborators giving out personal information on their travellers. However, Bill Scannell's been looking at the FOIA information that EPIC received, and apparently some of the projects that have used that data

RE: Lunar Colony

2004-01-19 Thread John Washburn
I had not considered that the problem the British had with Botany Bay was the lack of sterilization. Sterilization does keep the prison/colony population stable/controllable. Still even sterile prisoners/colonists were imprisoned for their uppity-ness and non-conforming attitudes. If the

RE: Lunar Colony

2004-01-19 Thread Jim Dixon
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, John Washburn wrote: I would think the problem with the camp X-Ray approach is the same as happened historically in Botany Bay or fictionally in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. When (not if) the ongoing support of the penal colony collapses what happens? The children

RE: Lunar Colony

2004-01-19 Thread John Washburn
I would think the problem with the camp X-Ray approach is the same as happened historically in Botany Bay or fictionally in the Moon is a Harsh Mistress. When (not if) the ongoing support of the penal colony collapses what happens? The children are in legal limbo; neither convict nor citizen.