Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 08:55:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: softweyr@xmission.com, pechter@lakewood.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199707231355.IAA19485@beowulf.utmb.edu>
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How about everyone keep their political opinions off this discussion group, and we will all be happier (especially the subscribers from outside the USA). Bud Dodson (Living in the USA, but not liking political corruption of a questions mailing list). > > > You're close. The real problem is the damned Clintons, er, liberals > > think they can raise our children "better" than we can, and want to > > control this (and all other) aspects of our lives. I'm truly sick and > > tired of this "It takes a village to raise a child" crap - it takes a > > Mommie and Daddy who care about, and CARE FOR the child. If the child > > is downloading pornography or talking to strangers on the net, the child > > needs to get his or her shell set to 'nologin', amongst other corrective > > behavior. > > > > > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > > soapbox mode=ON > > Hey Wes, give us Liberals a break. I must be from the old school. > Shell set to nologin hell. What about a hand applied to the rear end. > It isn't a Liberal versus conservative thing. It's an "I'm too busy > with my pretentious lifestyle to parent" thing. > > There's actually something to this "It takes a village" stuff. When I was > a kid if any neighbors caught me doing anything that I shouldn't do > they would have called my folks and my folks would've nailed me. > > Now they just turn the other way or whine to the child welfare authorities. > > My mother was a teacher for 30 years in both nice, wealthy suburbs and > Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville New York (pretty tough inner city > areas). > > When she called the parents of a kid in NY -- both parents, who couldn't > afford to miss work showed up. In the suburbs, the mother of one kid > asked to have the parent teacher conference moved from Wednesday, because > "It's my tennis day." > > Gimme a break! > > soapbox mode=off > > We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming already in progress. > > Bill > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 > pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. > This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11. > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790
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