Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:17:05 -0800 From: Allan Bowhill <abowhill@blarg.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personal patches Message-ID: <20040107001705.GB65133@kosmos.my.net> In-Reply-To: <qc1xqc7nhc.xqc@mail.comcast.net> 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> <qc1xqc7nhc.xqc@mail.comcast.net>
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--hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 0, "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> wrote: :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.=20 : :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.) Orwellian, yes. But funny. --=20 Allan Bowhill abowhill@blarg.net There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing. --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/+1AABC/kSIeFE54RAmOwAKCRvHJOcKM9OPuyTz8vu7Hra3fuRgCcCuGa xXXn7Y+EYyzNszyAdYReAbU= =wO3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--
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