Re: here's one for the consipacy theorists!

[Bob Maxey <written_by@xxxxxxx>]

>>>They can trace the printer serial number through the distribution
chain to the final sale, most likely. This is what is done when a gun
is recovered from a crime scene, for example. Certainly they can if
the printer is in a big print shop (Kinko's or whatever). So saying
they can trace it to where you printed it isn't entirely wrong, though
it can be read rather misleadingly.>>>

 

We are going off point. Sure guns have serial numbers. So you buy a gun, something happens, you go off your nut, and you shoot someone. Chances are, it will be traced back to you. If you are guilty, you should be tried. If you decide to become a criminal, I am not so sure you would use a gun registered to you.

 

>>>As to "so freaking what", most of the time it's pretty irrelevant; but
if I want to write an anonymous whistle-blower letter to my senator or
the GAO or somebody about malfeasance in the government department I
work in, it suddenly becomes pretty darned important!>>>

 

So write the letter and if you are scared, buy a used printer from the local Good Will, use the library printer, whatever. There are ways to protect yourself if you want to get the word out but you do not want to be fired. Whistle blower laws might protect you.

 

>>>And given the abuses the government routinely commits with the police
powers it has now, I'm very much opposed to giving them more. >>>

 

And what abuses are you talking about?

 

Bob

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