Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:40 AM 18-02-99 -0600, Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> wrote: >At 12:17 PM 2/18/99 +0100, you wrote: >>The U.S. government does not allow export of 128-bit encryption technology >>because >>they are worried that terrorist groups can make use of it....This particular >>rule >>ranges in its stupidity and unenforcability right up there with a city >>ordinance in >>Gainesville, Florida, which forbids getting drunk even in your own house. > >Shoot, for some reason they won't let me download it, and I live in "the >heartland!" > >Or how about the law in Salem, Oregon, where you have to wave a lantern in >front of any automobile you drive into town to avoid scaring the horses? :-) Every inn and hotel in the United Kingdom is required by law to maintain a sufficient supply of hay and water to accomodate any traveller who might arrive on horse back. ........ true. Most likely not much hay is kept on hand but the law is still on the books. jh > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. > > >