Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 20:17:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970723200149.169C-100000@acp.qiv.com> In-Reply-To: <199707231355.IAA19485@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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This a questions list, after all. Who else to express concerns except people whose opinions you respect. I happen to agree with Wes. And, I think our overseas friends could offer quite a bit of insight. These threads don't last long -- why not just delete the ones you don't want to read. -- Jay On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, M. L. Dodson wrote: -> ->How about everyone keep their political opinions off this discussion ->group, and we will all be happier (especially the subscribers from ->outside the USA). -> ->Bud Dodson ->(Living in the USA, but not liking political corruption of a questions ->mailing list). -> ->> ->> > You're close. The real problem is the damned Clintons, er, liberals ->> > think they can raise our children "better" than we can, and want to ->> > control this (and all other) aspects of our lives. I'm truly sick and ->> > tired of this "It takes a village to raise a child" crap - it takes a ->> > Mommie and Daddy who care about, and CARE FOR the child. If the child ->> > is downloading pornography or talking to strangers on the net, the child ->> > needs to get his or her shell set to 'nologin', amongst other corrective ->> > behavior. ->> > ->> > ->> > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC ->> > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com ->> ->> soapbox mode=ON ->> ->> Hey Wes, give us Liberals a break. I must be from the old school. ->> Shell set to nologin hell. What about a hand applied to the rear end. ->> It isn't a Liberal versus conservative thing. It's an "I'm too busy ->> with my pretentious lifestyle to parent" thing. ->> ->> There's actually something to this "It takes a village" stuff. When I was ->> a kid if any neighbors caught me doing anything that I shouldn't do ->> they would have called my folks and my folks would've nailed me. ->> ->> Now they just turn the other way or whine to the child welfare authorities. ->> ->> My mother was a teacher for 30 years in both nice, wealthy suburbs and ->> Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville New York (pretty tough inner city ->> areas). ->> ->> When she called the parents of a kid in NY -- both parents, who couldn't ->> afford to miss work showed up. In the suburbs, the mother of one kid ->> asked to have the parent teacher conference moved from Wednesday, because ->> "It's my tennis day." ->> ->> Gimme a break! ->> ->> soapbox mode=off ->> ->> We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming already in progress. ->> ->> Bill ->> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ->> Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 ->> pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. ->> This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11. ->> -> ->-- ->M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu ->409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 ->
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