xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (11/29/90)
jkh@bambam.pcs.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > A lot of game manufacturers read this list and would be scandalized by > this blatant reference to a device that could so easily be used to > commit a major felony. And the jails of America are so full of felonious devices that judges are ordering them allowed to run free on the streets rather than continue to suffer the cruel and inhuman treatment of packing to manual overcrowding. > Folks, you've just got to realize that the Imminent Death Of USENET > will result if we don't all toe the party line. I want you all > together now to say "Baaaaaaaaa.." once in unison. Hmmm. Not so good. > You should all practice that in front of a mirror for at least 5 > minutes a day until you get it right. With feeling. I tried, really I did, but I was caught in a freedom of speech flamefest recently, and the lamb in my throat was charred to mutton. > I also want to warn you that such BEHAVIOUR will result in not only > the Death Of USENET, but the actual, physical death of certain people > using it. Gene Spafford has already received anonymous death threats > (all scribbled on the backs of various license agreements) and this > can only escalate. Rumors have it that publishers like Psygnosis > actually have a nuclear capability, which they will use on known > concentrations of hacking activity and/or major USENET gateways, and > that Microprose is currently bartering with Saddam Hussein for > Chemical and Biological weapons (in exchange for A10 counter-air > simulators). Can you imagine Microprose with ABSW, running amuck at > the 16 bit show? I shudder to think of it. It is reactionaries like you, chopping off the typing fingers and ripping out the tongues of disk backup program use promoters, that are giving free speech a bad name in this country. If you don't cut it out, we're going to have to do something drastic, like confiscate your autographed nude photo of Jesse Helms soaking his campaign trail weary feet in the blood of a thousand starved North Carolina black children. > Fair warning. Right back at you, good buddy; we flaming liberals have our own sources of phosgene and mustard gas, you know. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us> -- "Martha, the sarcasm detector just pegged high and low simultaneously. Then the faceplate blew off. Now what?"