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more on YUP!! results of uk ban
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:24:27 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari () OLTECO com> Date: August 10, 2006 7:08:14 PM EDT To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban At 6:37 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers () cs utexas edu> Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk banFrom reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can't even carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in. This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines' choice of listening matter. Shades of "1984", where each citizen is required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!
Over reaction spreads ... "... Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said that state's National Guard has been activated to increase security at Logan International Airport outside Boston, the first such call-up since the Sept. 11 attacks. Passengers traveling through Logan may no longer bring aboard cell phones, laptop computers or iPods, as well as any liquids, Romney told a news conference in Boston... "Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? pid=20601087&sid=aei.iEm4Qt0I&refer=home
-- -------- "It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destructionwere dispersed. We know where they are. They're in the area around
Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."-- Donald Rumsfeld, Mar. 30, 2003
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