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From danlyke@flutterby.com Wed Jan 5 15:19:43 2000 Received: by toohey.flutterby.com; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:19:42 -0800 Received: from mail.chattanooga.net by toohey.flutterby.com (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com> (multi-drop); Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:19:42 PST Received: from pixar.com (pixar.pixar.com [138.72.10.20]) by s20.highertech.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id QAA00840 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:03:02 -0500 Received: from buzzcut.pixar.com (buzzcut.pixar.com [138.72.30.70]) by pixar.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA12167 for <dbl-quickies@flutterby.com>; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 13:03:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from flutterby.com by buzzcut.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m125xaD-01ogLgC; Wed, 5 Jan 100 13:03 PST Sender: danlyke@pixar.com Message-ID: <3873B188.29C7944F@flutterby.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:03:04 -0800 From: Dan Lyke <danlyke@flutterby.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; IRIX64 6.5 IP30) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dbl-quickies@flutterby.com Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 4b507bebfd2af3579b9eadfb7624ff0c Status: U Okay, I'd missed this one on Genehack the first time around, but it's so alarming it bears repeating. On the "police state" subject alluded to further down, US Customs agents raid Ramsey electronics for devices available at any Radio Shack (or Target, for that matter). Technocrat's take on the matter. What's frightens me most about this is that the end result of these sorts of maneuvers, criminalizing things rather than actions, almost seems a deliberate attempt to dumb down the populace.