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- From: pbray@envy.reed.edu (<<hurdy gurdy>>)
- Subject: Re: Something of interest...
- References: <1993Jan22.163513.1908@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:25:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.062511.1654@reed.edu>
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1993Jan22.163513.1908@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- buda@star.enet.dec.com (Mark A. Buda) writes:
-
- > I know that a couple of us have said multiple times that this conference
- is
- > being read by the authorities. In fact, I would hope that people
- realize
- > if they are on some of these 'Underground' lists, then the authorities
- > are also there and paying attention.
-
-
- Yeah but who REALLY uses bombs that much today? We aren't in
- Belfast here (at least I'm not). The incidents that happened at some
- college involving exploding 2-litre bottles is hardly a serious concern.
- You're right, bomb making is not new. Further, it is not new for most
- people to act sensibly. If a person has the predisposition to make bombs
- I can surely tell you that the existence or non-existence of this
- newsgroup would have little effect on his propensity for, and ability to
- carry out, destruction etc..
- Personally, I have never made any major devices mentioned on this
- newsgroup and I suspect that most people here haven't either. Yeah, I've
- filled condoms up with hydrogen etc. but this is not really a problem.
- People who have the priveledges to play on the computer and learn such
- esoteric things as pyrotechnics are usually from environements where crime
- and criminal predisposition are very rare. The authorities should be
- paying attention to more pressing matters - to specific environments where
- dangerous activity is far too common. Compared to the number of gun shot
- deaths, death by bomb has to be exceedingly low. Concentrate where
- concentration is needed.
-
- Peter
- --
- At the base of all these aristocratic races the predator is not
- to be mistaken, the splendorous blond beast, avidly rampant for
- plunder and victory.
- -- Senor Nietzsche
-