Posted on 09/24/2001 3:07:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Go after the guys who didn't do it. Makes sense to me.
What does this mean?
Whatever they want it to mean.
That's right. Wait 'till a fire starts.. then we'll discuss geting a fire department. Eveyone knows a fire department is just oppresive taxation until the fire starts.
Bummer.
Happened to have a "Made in the (free) People's Republic of China" label on it.
Nah. We've got nothing to worry about from terrorist/foreign-inspired hackers BEFORE the fire kills people - we've just be warned by the fire bell that is HAS been lit.
You are absolutely correct. We can never be to safe. Let's get rid of all the guns too. It's too late when somebody gets shot.
Don't laff, 1500 farmers are out of water under the BUSH administration, for a suckerfish. would anyone have though that possible even 10 years ago?
I keep thinking, wtc/pentagon was just too useful a happening to pass up exploiting by the goons. We'll see more loss of freedoms over this incident than over the sum total of everything else the past 30 years, and just wait until the next attack.
Isn't there a little thing called the Constitution of the United States of America that contains a clause prohibiting the creation of ipso facto laws. It has always been my understanding that changing the wording of a law in any way basically creates a new law, and if hopping on one leg was legal yesterday and illegal today, I couldn't be prosecuted on evidence that I hopped on one leg in the past, even if the statute of limitations for hopping on one leg were unlimited. A statute of limitations, cannot go back to before the day a law was enacted. A$#croft is really outdoing himself for striking while the iron is hot to usurp our civil liberties. It almost makes me miss Janet Reno...
What's next, will jaywalking be classified as "deliberate obstruction of mass transit" and punishable by life in prision?
Depends on the definition of "hacking." There was some poor schmuck, a web designer by trade, who was checking the work of one of his coworkers by opening a newspaper's web site using FrontPage. He discovered that that he had full access to their site from FrontPage because they had neglected to password protect it. He called the newspaper editor to let him know.
Then next day he got a visit from the FBI. Eighteen months later a federal prosecutor offered him a plea bargain.
I posted the original article on Free Republic a few months ago. When I finally locate it I will post a link.
Bottom line is, people who know nothing about computers and programming consider EVERYTHING to be hacking.
While you DO have a point, I'm wondering how long after this gets passed until Bill Gates and others try to get copyright infringement violators considered for it.
We don't.
We only have the illusion of freedom (not freedom itself). Which some of you are about to find out the hard way.
Paul C. Jesup
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