Of rats and the Commodore 64...

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Joe R. wrote:

> At 04:51 PM 7/22/05 -0500, John wrote:
> >At 04:36 PM 7/22/2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >>Sounds like some sort of coded Al Qaeda message to me.
> >
> >There's a new provision of the renewed Patriot Act that says
> >you're a terrorist if you use a non-DRM-protected CPU to
> >decode encrypted messages like palindromes.  In other words,
> >antique computers are now outlawed as terrorist devices.
> >Especially if you have a funny name.
>
>   Oh, oh! Sellam's in trouble!    AGAIN!

I remain an innocent bystander for now but at the rate that our rights are
being stripped away I expect soon to be deemed an enemy combatant by
default.

Enjoy your "freedom".

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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