Re: NSA,Windows, etc.

From: Alan Mackenzie (none_at_example.invalid)
Date: 05/06/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 19:54:52 +0000

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote on Thu, 06 May 2004 18:59:47 +0200:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:

>> The outlawing of threats (credible threats, that is) is not censorship,
>> because making a threat is not a legitimate exercise of free speech.

> So threatening to go on strike can/should be prohibited? What about
> threatening to vote for someone else for President?

If you want to play inane childish games with words, please do it with
somebody else. I'm quite capable of expressing myself with exquisite
precision, but the result would be almost as readable as a typical
taxation statute. So I'm not going to do that here.

The meaning of my last post was clear. Please feel free to address that
meaning, should you have anything worthwhile to say. 

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").

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