From: "d...@geer.org" <d...@geer.org>
To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Jim Bell vindicated
>Dodd-Frank, 7 U.S.C. 7a-2(c)(5)(C)
>(C) Special rule for review and approval of event contracts and
>swaps contracts
>(i) Event contracts
>In connection with the listing of agreements, contracts, transactions,
>or swaps in excluded commodities that are based upon the occurrence,
>extent of an occurrence, or contingency (other than a change in the
>price, rate, value, or levels of a commodity described in section
>1a(2)(i)2 of this title), by a designated contract market or swap
>execution facility, the Commission may determine that such agreements,
>contracts, or transactions are contrary to the public interest if
>the agreements, contracts, or transactions involve --
> (I) activity that is unlawful under any Federal or State law;
> (II) terrorism;
> (III) assassination;
> (IV) war;
> (V) gaming; or
> (VI) other similar activity determined by the Commission, by rule
> or regulation, to be contrary to the public interest.
>(ii) Prohibition
>No agreement, contract, or transaction determined by the Commission
>to be contrary to the public interest under clause (i) may be listed
>or made available for clearing or trading on or through a registered
>entity.
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Aha! It's yet another "Anti-Jim-Bell" law! I have a long history of causing
legislatures to change the laws to obstruct what I'm doing. In 1990, I made an
infrared-emitting device, mounted on my car, to cause it to look like an
emergency vehicle, and turn red traffic lights to green. (The device being
tricked was made by 3M, trademarked Opticom. (I called my device the
"Optigreen). One example is:
http://www.gtt.com/opticom-emergency-response/opticom-ir-system/ ) My device
emitted at 880 nm wavelength, about 14.035 pulses per minute. In 1993, I made
a large number of them for friends, sale, etc.Hearing about it, the Oregon
Legislature passed the following law in 1994:
http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/815.440
"
815.440¹
Unauthorized possession, use or distribution of traffic control signal
operating device
- • exemption
- • penalty
(1)A person commits the offense of unauthorized possession, use or distribution
of a traffic control signal operating device if the person owns, uses, sells or
otherwise distributes a device that is designed to control a traffic control
light as a person using the device approaches the light. "
A few years late, the US Congress enacted a law which criminalized the same
thing, federally: 18 U.S.C. 39:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/39
"(a) Offenses.—(1) Sale.— Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign
commerce, knowingly sells a traffic signal preemption transmitter to a
nonqualifying user shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than
1 year, or both.(2) Use.— Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign
commerce, being a nonqualifying user makes unauthorized use of a traffic signal
preemption transmitter shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more
than 6 months, or both.(b) Definitions.— In this section, the following
definitions apply:(1) Traffic signal preemption transmitter.— The term “traffic
signal preemption transmitter” means any mechanism that can change or alter a
traffic signal’s phase time or sequence."
Jim Bell
