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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Subject: Re: ANDF bogosity
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.180128.2996@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <lma.727065105@dayton.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan15.101326.27072@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1378@taniwha.UUCP> <1993Jan20.120919.14235@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <barnett.727570830@convex.convex.com> <pnevmati.727648034@cs.wisc.edu> <1993Jan25.161034.14188@vbohub.vbo.dec.com> <1993Jan27.094642.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:01:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.094642.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>, brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> I can get DES sources from anywhere on the planet, yet I can't
- |> re-export them once they land in USA??
- |> What about all the PUBLISHED versions that have come from the
- |> USA itself?
- |> oooh.. right.. NOW it's clear.. U.S.A. ... right.. uh huh..
-
- Our laws are made by congressmen who usually have no technical
- qualifications. Our laws are enforced by lawyers and/or police
- who usually have no logical thought patterns at all (as if the
- congress ever does). So, if a law says "thou shalt not export
- such-and-such technology", these bozos will refuse to let you
- ship it out - even back to its original source!
-
- Consider the infamous case of the Soviet reactor. The Soviet Union
- (when it still existed) sent a nuclear power source of the kind they
- use in their deep-space probes to a technology exchange conference
- as an exhibit. It was a *real* reactor, but without the nuclear
- material. Well, the event ended and the Soviets wanted to ship the
- thing back home. Our laws wouldn't let them do so. It is illegal
- to ship such devices out of the U.S. - no matter *where* they came
- from. I never did hear how that came out.
-
- In a world which contains Saddam Hussein and Mohamar Quadifi these
- laws make a certain amount of sense. It is their application that
- often seems completely irrational.
-
- --
- J. Giles
-