James and all Fellow members,
Hummmm? I am very unsure what your reference below
has to do with what I said that you snipped the vast
majority of off? ???? Maybe you can clarify James T.?
Full text is here:
http://www.fitug.de/atlarge-discuss/0306/msg01575.html
James S. Tyre wrote:
> At 11:04 PM 6/18/2003 -0700, Jeff Williams wrote:
>
> > Because I am almost 50 yrs of age.
>
> Hmm, are you blind?
>
> http://www.jzip.org/jzip/archives/000573.html#000573
>
> Senator Hatch Introduces Bill to Burn People's Eyes Out
>
> Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation authorizing the
> use of high-powered microwave lasers to burn out the eyes of non-paying
> viewers of copyrighted material. "If we could develop technology which
> just burned out the parts of their brains where the illegal memories are
> stored, that'd be fine with me--but we can burn their eyes out right
> now!" said Hatch, while introducing the Hatch/Hollywood Eyeball
> Evisceration Act.
>
> Hatch's previous legislation authorizing the remote detonation of PCs
> used, or potentially used, or thought to have possibly been used, or
> potentially able to be used after some jumper cables and soldering,
> assuming a radically defective new security model, to access copyrighted
> material was defeated in the Senate on a 51-49 vote last week.
>
> "I understand why the Senate was hesitant to pass a bill that authorized
> the destruction of personal property," Hatch said. "But this doesn't
> destroy any property. It just turns your eye sockets into puddles of
> bubbling goo. Okay, you might get some melted eyeball on your shirt, but
> only if you panic. Keep your wits about you and you can get those
> eyeballs to dribble into your cupped hands."
>
> ...
>
> Comment on the new system has been mixed...
>
> Jeff Williams, 48, had a similar impression: "I was in a bar--you know,
> the kind with a bunch of televisions tuned to different sports--watching
> the Phillies and the Cubs when the announcer said, 'Unauthorized viewing
> of this broadcast is prohibited--' but that's all I heard, 'cause my
> eyeballs were starting to melt."