Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!fluke!intermec!marcus From: marcus@intermec.UUCP (Marcus Albro) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Social Security numbers Message-ID: <1472@intermec.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 91 21:41:06 GMT References: <29736@mimsy.umd.edu> Reply-To: marcus@icarus (Marcus Albro) Distribution: na Organization: Intermec Corporation, Everett WA Lines: 23 In article <29736@mimsy.umd.edu> dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu (David Lamb) writes: >Is it legal for all these people to do this? Did somebody change the >rules, or was my "vague memory" always wrong? is anyone else upset about >this? >-- > >David Alex Lamb internet: dalamb@umiacs.umd.edu I think it is a symptom of alot of regulations that are implemented with caveats by our government. I seem to remember that car lisences were only for some sort of financial emergency, to be immendiately removed when unneeded, and the same for driver's lisences. It is this attitude that scares me when I hear of a levy for a 'temporary' tax to fund some emergency, it almost never goes away. -- ============================================================================ Marcus Albro email: marcus@intermec.com or uunet!pilchuck!intermec!marcus Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy - Split Atoms, Not Wood! ============================================================================