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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Russian access to usenet
Keywords: paranoia or adaptation to reality
Message-ID: <336@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 21:13:36 GMT
References: <204@imspw6.UUCP> <5141@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <776@faui10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: AMPEX Corporation, Redwood City, CA
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>>> From: Anna Kochanowska: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
>
>>> >(Do you know that it is forbidden in USSR to make a picture of any post
>>> >office, bridge, railway station etc.? You may simply loose your camera
>>> >and have a lot of troubles.

That's funny. Right here in the Bay Area, there's a little building just off
of the Golden Gate Bridge ( Coming across from Marin, take the very first
right, into the toll-taker complex. Go straight, the road curves up to the
left, then comes to a stop sign across from some barracks, adjacent to the
rifle range. Turn right, go about a hundred feet, turn right, you're right
there ... ) that has a sign on it saying very clearly that anyone caught
taking pictures or making drawings of the building or surrounding area will
be prosecuted to the full extent of federal law.

Kind of silly, everyone who's ever taken a picture of the Bridge is a felon.

In any case, you don't have to travel far to encounter draconian behavior.
It's all about you.

-- richard

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