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Date:      Tue, 06 Jan 2004 13:53:35 -0800
From:      underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Personal patches
Message-ID:  <qc1xqc7nhc.xqc@mail.comcast.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040106202408.GC63867@kosmos.my.net> (Allan Bowhill's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:24:08 -0800")
References:  <200401051502.i05F2qqG007611@dungeon.home> <20040105175904.GA32112@online.fr> <20040105183315.GA99773@FreeBSD.org> <xzpvfnp8192.fsf@dwp.des.no> <p0600201ebc20b4cfdf9e@[10.0.1.4]> <20040106202408.GC63867@kosmos.my.net>

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Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net> writes:

> On  0, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> wrote:
>:
>:	Prepare to be fingerprinted.

> Few U.S. citizens haven't been. 

Now they can prepare to be DNA databased, as U.K. citizens have.
Orwell was an optimist.

I heard a new twist on it last week.  Cops want a guy's DNA and don't
want to bother a judge to use his search warrant rubber stamp.  So
they send the guy a letter which causes the guy to send a return
letter.  (I forget the ruse -- a prize announcement or something.  The
report didn't say whether it had a Police letterhead or was something
more covert.)  So he licks the envelope and/or stamp, drops it in the
mail, and now his DNA is in the database.  (Yes, it matched.)

Anybody know when the term "sheeple" was coined?  I first heard it
last year on a talk show; maybe Limbaugh, but probably Dr. Michael
Savage (who I recommend to those who think Limbaugh is extreme or
offensive).

USA, 06 January 1984+20



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