License to Deceive
Sam Aurelius Milam III
How
many times have you been asked by a traffic cop, out on the road, to show
your driver's license so that the cop would know that you're qualified
to drive? Not very often, maybe never. How many times have
you been asked by someone who wasn't a traffic cop, when you weren't out
on the road, to show your driver's license so that you could prove your
identity? Probably thousands of times.
Even
out on the road, the traffic cop doesn't really care if you can drive.
He just wants to know your identity so that he can use the information
against you. He'll check for "priors" and warrants. So, how
smart do you have to be to figure out that it isn't a driver's license?
The "driver's license" doesn't have much to do with driving. They
call it a driver's license to deceive people. It isn't a driver's
license. It's a government ID card.
Stray Thoughts
Sam Aurelius Milam III
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Even
if it's conceded that inventors should be able to patent their inventions,
an idea with which I disagree, it is nevertheless entirely unacceptable
for discoverers of things that already exist to patent their discoveries.
•
A
society whose young people are forced to fight for it is a society that
should not survive.
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All
too often, medical people become so confident of their superiority that
they stop behaving like medical people and start behaving like evangelists.
I've noticed that they charge the same rates, either way.
RE:
repairing VCRs:
I
had a nice one that lost a rubber drive belt (I assume, because everything
seemed to be working except that tape wouldn't move in the cassette).
I took it apart — as much as I could — but never DID find the damn belt.
The machine was apparently assembled with the idea that NOBODY would ever
want to take it apart to repair or replace anything in it.
Welcome
to the "throw-away" economy. I would suggest that you could possibly
acquire a different machine from a thrift store for less than the cost
of having somebody attempt to repair your broken one.
—SantaClara Bob
Most
of the used VCRs at thrift stores already have something wrong with them.
I need to have access to somebody who can repair the machines that I already
have. The problem, at the only repair shop that I was able to find,
was the lack of replacement parts. So, it seems to me that the only
place that will be able to repair VCRs will be a place that's large enough
to have accumulated a lot of old VCRs, for parts. I hear that the
NSA has a large collection of every possible kind of old audiovisual equipment,
so that its investigators can view all possible kinds of old recordings.
Wouldn't it be fun to ask the NSA to repair my VCRs for me?
Regarding
the throw-away economy, that isn't the worst. I can't just throw
away something and buy a new one. I'm forced to throw away something
and buy something different, instead. In this case, I'm expected
to throw away VCRs and buy DVD machines. So it isn't just a throw-away
economy. It's a forced obsolescence economy, and that's even worse.
The
idea that videocassettes are obsolete is a matter of opinion. Being
superseded isn't the same thing as being obsolete. The decision to
make the transition to DVDs should be my choice, not the choice of marketing
promoters whose only goal is to transfer funds from me to them. In
fact, I make a distinction between salesmen and marketing promoters.
A salesman sells me what I want. A marketing promoter tells me what
I want.
—editor
Mr. Milam —
I
received your letter a few days ago followed directly by the May edition
of the Frontiersman.... Thank you for writing back w/your thoughts
& info on Agenda 21. As usual you got my gears turning, a highlight
of my day....
The
thing that gets to me is how big of an industry prison has become.
Money is at the heart of every prisoner's sentence & of
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