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From: D <nospam@example.net>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:43:56 +0100
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:

> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:
>>
>>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah... childhood memories! This was the easiest thing in the world to
>>>> produce! Once I managed to stop a subway line with it. I think I was
>>>> around 12 or 13, and we were playing with this stuff under a bridge that
>>>> had a subway line.
>>>>
>>>> The subway came, created a draft that sucked all the smoke into the
>>>> tunnel, and they thought there was a fire and stopped the subway. 10
>>>> minutes later the police arrived, discovered us (we didn't run) and said
>>>> "boys will be boys" and let us go.
>>>>
>>>> I thought the police actually thought it was funny and were reminded of
>>>> their own childhood (although of course they didn't show any of this).
>>>>
>>>> Ahh, those were better, more innocent times!
>>>
>>> Yes indeed.  Today some kids doing the identical activity would pull in
>>> the local police, the FBI, the TSA, and likely several other
>>> three-letter-agencies and the kids would be put on several terrorist in
>>> the making watchlists and be haunted by that label for the rest of
>>> their lives.
>>
>> Sadly I believe you are correct. =( And that attitude is killing freedom
>> and society.
>
> Also forgot: And their respective parents would be charged with child
> abuse, child endangerment, and whatever else the local DA wanted to
> throw in, for allowing "Jonny" to roam free and play with such
> "dangerous materials".

Ahh... so they can take the children away and bring them up as perfects 
servants of the state. Make sense. =(