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: 19 May 2026 00:44:30 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10u03i7$4nle$1@dont-email.me> <10u2bjn$7tk9$1@dont-email.me> <6a07822e$0$3165$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <9cgldmx07m.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10u98uj$qnkq$4@dont-email.me> <10ubif9$1emma$1@dont-email.me> <10ucmld$1omrb$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7tHCsmF+7DreSJCoUk2zNwRYh1lmaANgbsyeU9R5trijSMn83o Cancel-Lock: sha1:xAo4qJmpMLiAnbQTEB9mWifmTBs= sha256:hUNb5IP1q5IexduyA2ZI4oSKEDqgw0cFFOUKAYkQLc4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86875 On Mon, 18 May 2026 21:18:44 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-05-17, rbowman wrote: > >> Prohibition itself and the War on Drugs point out how effective the >> legislation is. Marijuana is legal in this state. The difference is the >> state gets a 22% sales take from the corner dispensary. > > And there you have it. The only difference between legal and illegal > drugs is whether the government gets a cut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road_(1958_film) The government looking for its cut... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1CYKDoYCIM 'The Ballad of Thunder Road' You don't 'shoot the gap at Cumberland' anymore. They built a tunnel under it to preserve the historic area. Harlan has a Walmart like every other damn place. Seeing the movie at an impressionable age left me with a fondness for '51 Fords. He had upgraded in the movie clips. The '57 Ford doesn't do it for me.