Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux to be illegal in California? Date: 14 May 2026 02:01:40 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <10tvilg$22ol7$2@dont-email.me> <10tvqpm$25kt4$1@dont-email.me> <10u1oea$2jago$16@dont-email.me> <10u220i$2odeg$2@dont-email.me> <10u2hf9$2tm2g$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net /QXb3jx6cNnVxStCi/R25QI/wEKVtrpP7v2Kh6yUOfblaBcKmw Cancel-Lock: sha1:282yMENw8Y3Y2bXtb9n+lIapE4M= sha256:6iCWyzhuuWPEAnKo02M1iY6iZ9iwB5HNN2DXJQOlm0s= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86636 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.