JO>Please tell me this is a joke! I thought it was...at first...Now
JO>I wish I'd saved the file, at least for the bill number.
JO>Has anyone else heard about Owlgore's latest masterpiece? It would
JO>appear he's pushed the "highway" in Information Highway so much that
JO>there is a bill in the Senate to make it illegal to use alcohol while
JO>on public networks? They even added a cute provision so that bbs's
JO>would be included in this. The FBI would be able to wire-tap your
JO>line to catch you, and evidently possession of a beer and a modem
JO>would technically be all the probable cause needed.
JO>So it would appear that you or I could be posting in the Rush echo
JO>(I suppose the real "crime" would be when we were actually online
JO>uploading in that case) and the FBI would break in to give us a MWI!
JO>(Modeming While Intoxicated?)
JO>Then there is the part that would make it a felony to talk about
JO>sex...I don't know how explicit it would have to be, but I'd imagine
JO>Clinton's sex life would be plenty explicit enough. Ack!
JO>By that token, unless we all stop talking about Clinton right now, I
JO>think WE could all be future felony offenders according to the bill!
JO>Unless it's just a huge joke, this bill is supposed to pass the
JO>Senate within a month. Either way...considering just the idea--I
JO>really do think Owlgore could be more dangerous than Clinton !
I hear the computers will have a "D" chip, D for drunk, to determine if one 
is on the Information Superhighway while intoxicated. 
Seriously Janada, although I've seen some rather stupid things come out of 
Washington, I don't think even the Owl would do something so stupid as 
that, nor that Congress would enact it. 
If I'm wrong then we're in heap big trouble ( a little Indian lingo there ) 
if someone actually wrote a bill like that. 
John , jnsampson@ibm.net 
 "To find reasonable doubt, one must first be capable of reason."
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