ROBERT SAYRE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

CA> I can't logically fathom how, under our original constitution, that
CA> the government can take away your right to put that CD or DVD into
CA> anything you want to including your toaster. My country embarasses
CA> me frequently.

RJT> Not "the country",  but "the government"!  At
all levels...

RS>  They is US! We let "them" get away with it all. And, even when we 
RS> KNOW how bad they really are, we RE-elect them!!

RS>  We embarass me frequently.

We don't have as much time as we'd like to have to deal with the rascals, 
them having the big advantage of not only doing what they're doing
full-time while we're trying to make a living and do other stuff like raise
families and such,  but they also have support staff (that we pay for!) to
help them with their mischief...

CA> With home DVD players that now play DVD, CD-DA, and MP3 it is just
CA> a short hop to auto CD players that play MP3s.

RJT> Sure.  I was of the impression that such stuff was out the on the
RJT> market n for single discs.  I guess the difference between that and
RJT> the setup I was referring to was a couple of weeks of constant play
RJT> with no repetition.  :

RS>  IIRC, the Route 66 setup held 500 full albums. It could search by 
RS> genre, group, tempo, song, or album. It scrolled the title and 
RS> songs on one line, and the group and any notes that you added on 
RS> another line while the song played.

Cool.

RS>  They were just getting started working on an RF link to update the 
RS> car PC from the house PC.

Wireless networking?  Why not...

RS>  BTW, there are CD changers that will play MP3's. Some are even 
RS> factory installed.

I thought that might be the case,  but it's been a *long* time since I
tried to stay current with what all was out there.

Heard today on the radio that there was some sort of a federal court
decision that said that ISPs are now *required* to help "the
industry" find people who are downloading music illegally.  That ain't
gonna work either,  in the long run,  but it still makes things be a bit of
a pain for the rest of us.

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