Hi, you forget even spectacles, arteficial fertilizers, any kind of drugs, ropes, needles, guns, knives, bones (they can be VERY hard!), etc. Maybe, humans should be also prohibited following this logic! Imre On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Randy Glenn wrote: > Gee, if the US is getting rid of everything that could be used to do Very Bad Things, maybe they > should get rid of: > > Combustible Fuel > Computers > CD-Recordables > Model Rockets > Amateur Radio > Radio Scanners > Every other country on the face of the Earth > Individual thought and inspiration > Matches > Lighters > Laser Pointers > Magnifying Glasses (you can burn stuff with 'em!) > Fire-fighting robots (they make mistake an agent performing a raid as needing to be extinguished!) > > Hey, if they can't trust honest businesspeople, maybe they should just lock every citizen in jail, > where they can keep a close eye on them. > > END RANT. > > -Randy > http://i.am/PICxpert - PICxpert@techie.com > ICQ Nickname: PICxpert - Fax: (208) 330-3630 > > -----Original Message----- > From: dlarson@citilink.com [mailto:dlarson@citilink.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 4:14 AM > To: piclist@mitvma.mit.edu > Subject: Re: [OT] Legal woes > > > We had *all* better watch out for the FEDs! > > PICs and BASIC Stamps just *might* be used to make > timers for terrorist bombs! > > Time for another "Tea Party" ? Next time, we should > throw the *politicians* in the river and *drink* the tea! > > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:54:43 -0500, M. Adam Davis wrote: > > >>Same thing happened to Ramsey Electronics. You can go to > >>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/04/2316228&mode=nocomment > >>to read the owner's account of the FBI raid on Ramsey (yes, it was > >>actually a raid, like what you would expect if Ramsey were selling > >>drugs), as well as read or participate in an ongoing discussion of > >the > >>event. > >