From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-06 07:39:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New Ada compiler for .NET Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:39:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3DEA5CC0.6B435E66@adaworks.com> <1039118476.628446@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1039187333.113972@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1039189149 12915 129.241.83.78 (6 Dec 2002 15:39:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:39:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31494 Date: 2002-12-06T15:39:09+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > > I believe that this is perfectly appropriate, not only for the > government to do, but also for advertisers, marketers, or anyone > else who wants to. I believe that it is immoral and nonsensical > to restrict what someone may do with their intelligence combined > with available public information. It is as if someone were to > legislate that certain mathematical theorems could not be used > in proofs without a judge's approval! I don't understand your point. You mean that sending an e-mail from one person to another is public information? If so then why isn't sending letters, doing phone calls this too? The new laws in the US does not concern public available information, but 24 hour surveilance of all from bank accounts to e-mails etc... of American citizens. -- Preben Randhol ------------------------ http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- �1984 is soon coming to a computer near you.�