[IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@OLTECO.com>
Date: August 10, 2006 7:08:14 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban

At 6:37 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@cs.utexas.edu>
> Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT
> To: dave@farber.net
> Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com
> Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk ban
>
> From reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can't even  
> carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in.
> This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight  
> watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines' choice  
> of listening matter.  Shades of "1984", where each citizen is  
> required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!

        Over reaction spreads ...

        "... Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said that state's
       National Guard has been activated to increase security at Logan
International Airport outside Boston, the first such call-up since
      the Sept. 11 attacks.

   Passengers traveling through Logan may no longer bring aboard cell
      phones, laptop computers or iPods, as well as any liquids, Romney
        told a news conference in Boston... "

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news? 
pid=20601087&sid=aei.iEm4Qt0I&refer=home





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        were dispersed. We know where they are. They're in the area  
around
        Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
                                         -- Donald Rumsfeld, Mar.  
30, 2003


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