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From: jordan@tcs.com (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions?
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:51:28 GMT
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Henry Mensch <henry@ads.com> writes:

	i thought the last SF USENIX was pretty bad; at exactly some
	hour (closing hour) the waitresses streamed through the lobby
	bar (SF Hilton?) and TOOK DRINKS FROM CLIENTS and forced them
	out.

This is California law.  Bars can lose their license for this.  The
business about getting forced out is rude (though if you only got paid
until 2am, would you want to hang out and babysit a bunch of drunk
hackers?), but the "take the drink ay 2am" syndrome is pretty
widespread in California.

"Get used to it"

/jordan