Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Chuck Wolber wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: I also tried to get my wife to agree to a heroic name for our son. In the tradition of Pericles and Sophocles, I present ... Testicles. Similarly I preferred Falopia, and alas my wife was equally reticent.

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 00:30, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-) I tried, years before _UC_

Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 04:44 AM 12/2/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: John Ross' Unintended Consequences is a classic of the, um, gun culture, :-) and a great read. Made me want to name my first mulatto Gonorreah fer sure :-)

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Peter Gutmann
Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried, years before _UC_ came out, to get some friends to name their daughter Chlamydia. They didn't know what the word meant, but for some reason didn't trust my advice. Nor did they like Pudenda. One of the characters in Hercules Returns is called

Campaign contribution limits and soft money...law of unintended consequences

2003-11-12 Thread Tim May
So the Dems who sought campaign finance reform, via McCain-Feingold (*) are now trying to get an exception to allow George Soros to spend his soft money to help Dems. It seems the legally collected $160 million war chest that Shrub has collected is scaring the Dems, who have raised vastly

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Stewart
J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, John Young wrote: Don't ever respond to a jury summons by showing up or calling in. If you do then you'll forever be in the sucker-responsive data base. Well, as the button says, Any 12 people who can't get off jury duty aren't *my* peers Aside from

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread Bill Stewart
Major Variola (ret) wrote: I've read that to enter a Fed building you need ID. I'm curious what happens if you haven't got it. Adrian Lamo had his card. I'm currently ignoring the conscription notices I get from the local jury droids; if I *volunteer* someday (after reviewing fija.org) I'll be

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread Neil Johnson
I have a pretty good excuse (As I duck behind a flame retardant barrier.. :) ) My brother-in-law and his wife are law-enforcement officers. Seems that implies that I may have some bias against defendants. Neither the prosecution or the defense want to deal with it. Most people I know who end

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 03:38 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: But if you're ignoring jury conscription notices at times that it's not seriously interfering with your business activities, you should go check out FIJA.org. Remember that under the common law, a juror has the power and

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, John Young wrote: Don't ever respond to a jury summons by showing up or calling in. If you do then you'll forever be in the sucker-responsive data base. For many years I believed that failing to accept jury duty was simply the wrong thing to do - by serving, I

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread John Young
Don't ever respond to a jury summons by showing up or calling in. If you do then you'll forever be in the sucker-responsive data base. The warnings in summons are shinola shit, effective only on those who are indoctrinated to fear official warnings printed on paper. If you get a summons in the

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 03:38 PM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: (And it's probably a bit too much cognitive dissidence for them if you simultaneously want a parking pass for your car and don't have your DL because you took the bus :-) The DL stays in the car, the only place it is needed. I've heard that during

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:53 AM 9/10/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: California's law against Driving While Speaking Spanish is only about 10 years old, and was a Pete Wilson thing. It happened about when I moved here - did other states start doing similar things in the mean time? The Feds started bullying states into

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-10 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:38 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Licenses as IDs at airports questioned WASHINGTON  Federal officials and lawmakers raised serious concerns Tuesday about the continued use of driver's licenses at airports and U.S. borders in light of California's new

Re: unintended consequences: Davis recall leads to US internal passports

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Stewart
Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Licenses as IDs at airports questioned WASHINGTON  Federal officials and lawmakers raised serious concerns Tuesday about the continued use of driver's licenses at airports and U.S. borders in light of California's new law allowing illegal immigrants to obtain the