Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to Bob Ackley:

 RC> Hello Bob!

 RC> 06 Jun 09 06:47, you wrote to me:

 RC>>> Forgetting the "Home" part, not every business is
legal either,
 RC>>> so what is your point?

 RC>>> Can you setup a wallboard factory and use asbestos?

 BA>> You can't set up a wallboard factory in your house and not use
 BA>> asbestos.

 RC> I wasnt talking about the home, did you read?

I wasn't either, did you?

 RC>>> Can you setup a pharmacy in the towns business district and sell
 RC>>> heroin?

 BA>> Actually, doing that used to be perfectly legal.  Heroin was at one
 BA>> time a prescribable medication, it was also an ingredient in
 BA>> laudanum, which was an alcohol based substance.

 RC>>> Obviously the answer is no, but these examples by extension dont
 RC>>> make all businesses illegal on the sole basis of 2 radical
 RC>>> examples.

 RC> There are lots of things that used to be legal.

 RC>>> Telecommuting isnt illegal either, most who do do not do anything
 RC>>> more than those who dont as far as comings and goings, by that I
 RC>>> mean, they still have to go run lifes normal errands, the only
 RC>>> thing one might notice is the car sits in the driveway moreso than
 RC>>> normal during the 9-5 norm.

 BA>> Telecommuting in and of itself I have no problem with.  Somewhere the
 BA>> telecommuting morphed into home-based businesses.

 RC> Actually home based businesses predate telecommuting,, another example
 RC> of people not knowing what telecommutting is.. {sigh}

I was referring to this thread, I know that home businesses predate telecommuting.

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