Re: TIME.com: Nation -- Supreme Court: Relax. The Heat is Off

2001-06-13 Thread Mac Norton
if the signal is your own, and it would not exit the home by its own force, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy by a 9-0 vote of about any SCt since Taft died. Well, 7-2 anyway. However, if the signals are from outside, received in the home (isn't that what Wright was after?), the issue

Re: ORBS sucked into a black hole!

2001-06-11 Thread Mac Norton
I think it's a typo. I think Declan meant reputation punishing tool. If he didn't, he should have. Good riddance to bad rubbish--though, as I suppose would Declan or even Choate, I'd defend the bastard's right to be a bastard, so long as he's willing to pay up when he causes real damage--or j

Re: ORBS sucked into a black hole!

2001-06-11 Thread Mac Norton
Whoa. commie privacy leftie punks? what was ORBS? And we don't have to talk about holding guns to heads. We're talking about holding a boycott to heads. Sounds pretty commie leftie to me. Talk about sheeple, jeez. MacN On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Nobody's holding a gun to yo

Re: Subpoenas

2001-05-23 Thread Mac Norton
Your friend is largely correct, but there are some important exceptions to his general principles that may be troublesome. For instance, "every man has an obligation to give his evidence." It's one of those "citizenship" things, but it applies to mere residents as well. Granted, nationwide subpo

Re: SS numbers and salaries of Kirkland cops readily available

2001-05-19 Thread Mac Norton
The problem is, the state has no right to keep you from getting my SSN, or eye color or hair color or height or penis length. But the state has no obligation to assist you in doing so. Cox says nothing, absolutely nothing, about compelled disclosures. Not a damn thing. Yes, Cox is clear, if a

Re: Video killed the radio star

2001-05-17 Thread Mac Norton
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tim May wrote: > I think there are multiple reasons for the current trends in the > music business. The MP3/recordable CD technology effect is only one > of the reasons, and, IMO, not nearly the most important. It's not a reason for the trends, it *is* a trend. Get the di