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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.161802.11394@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <0f_BK9y00iUz03IWV_@andrew.cmu.edu> <7180@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> <JMC.92Dec15190148@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:18:02 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- In article <JMC.92Dec15190148@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <7180@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rovero@attu.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
- > References: <0f_BK9y00iUz03IWV_@andrew.cmu.edu>
- > Sender: news@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
- >
- >
- > Thanks for the posting. If I see even one of these stickers on
- > a car or (heaven forbid) by the side of the road, I'll know who
- > to name in the complaint.
- >
- > Here on the scenic Monterey Peninsula, there is a $1000 (yup, a kilobuck)
- > fine for littering.
- >
- > --
- > Josh Rovero (rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil) | or Internet 5346p@cc.nps.navy.mil
- > Department of Oceanography, Code OC/Rv | Bitnet 5346p@NAVPGS
- > Naval Postgraduate School |
- > Monterey, CA 93943 (408) 646-2084 |
- >
- >Neither you nor the Ticket America people will have to pay a littering
- >fine if their "ticket" ends up on the road. The Supreme Court has
- >decided, correctly in my opinion, that free speech generally takes
- >priority over littering laws. You'll just have to suffer it. You
- >will get used to it, and they will get tired of pestering us.
-
- If people are willing to spend 29 cents complaining, I recommend
- they sent the tickets to Jeremy Rifkin, the brainchild for this
- silly (IMO) action. Then they can fill his waste dump.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
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- --
-
- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
-