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Re: Linux to be illegal in California?

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On Wed, 13 May 2026 18:55:37 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> My dad used to tell stories of his childhood of riding off some miles
> away from home on his bike, with a 22cal rifle, to go shoot tin cans in
> the forest, and no one caring or even blinking an eye.

And without a helmet...  I don't think my first bike had reflectors laced 
into the spokes and on the pedals.

It wasn't all roses. When I was in grade school a classmate's younger 
brother was hit and killed on his bike. I 7th grade a classmate's older 
brother who was in 8th grade was killed when a bunch of boys were shooting 
in a gravel pit. The story was he had wandered up to the top of the pit 
and caught a ricochet. Maybe.

It was a small town where everybody knew each other. What do you say to a 
kid after his brother was killed? We didn't have grief counselors and I 
don't remember the teachers doing much. Shit happens and that's the way it 
is.

When I was 4 or 5 we had a '51 Chevy. There were two hand prints on the 
steel dashboard where I'd worn the finish down to the primer. I liked to 
scoot forward and lean on the dash to see where we were going. I feel 
sorry for today's kids strapped into an Apollo quality escape module and 
put in the rear sear. 

Most of us survived, maybe with a few broken bones or powder burns from 
improvised explosives. One kid learned the hard way that stuffing strike 
anywhere match heads into a CO2 capsule wasn't a good idea.  

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