the truth is I'm not for it, but thought I'd cause a stir.

I believe I have told this before, but my father, a Kennedy Lib, had a German pistol he brought back from WWII. For some reason it could never fire.

I was pretty young, early '60's, when the city in which we lived asked all residents with guns to please register at City Hall, some seemingly innocuous reason was given...

My father refused, even though his gun was disabled, and explained to me that though we had a "friendly" government at the time, things change and one day they could use the voluntary list to confiscate everyone's guns. He made the danger of that event pretty clear in the big picture of America in light of what he had witnessed just 20 years earlier...and what his parents and grandparents had lived through in Europe.

The lesson stuck with me.

frankj1 wrote:

It’s a good lesson.

And it’s a right not a privilege.

teedubbya wrote:

It's the same for used computers, I used to buy and sell computers and computer parts, especially from government auctions. Several years ago I bought a used state (not saying which) computer that had a multiple year list of police academy graduates, their scores, names, addresses and Social Security numbers. For about one second I considered telling the state to be more careful cleaning computers they sold, then I came to my senses figuring I'd be arrested for having that information so the state could avoid responsibility. I used a disk wipe application to make the data unretrievable.

Gene363 wrote:

Not just limited to computers. Most modern photocopiers for the last 20 years or so have had hard disks in them for buffering jobs as do some printers. They typically default to "auto-erase", but that can be changed in settings to allow job recall. Even if job save is not enabled, for "erase" it's just like most computers where the file table entry is erased, but itself isn't removed, it just sits on the disk until it gets overwritten. I've heard of at least one or two stories from former co-workers of copiers/printers from DA, Public Defender, Courts, Probation, Police etc... being sold as surplus or returned from lease with the disks installed with job-save left on and the disk full of confidential legal information. Other times, the disk isn't wiped, so an over the counter recovery program could easily be used to retrieve the data. What's funny is that these agencies would typically pull their hard disks before sending a computer out to pasture, but totally forgot about the printers and copiers.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

If anyone thinks they're only targeting pedos...it fits the narrative.

There's no recidivism with them and they should be put down like rabid animals.

The tentacles of or government spying on its citizens is enlarging.

DrMaddVibe wrote:

yep...we grew up wondering if the CIA was gonna put LSD in our water...

delta1 wrote:

About 20 years ago I worked for a contractor who had maintenance contracts on Capital Hill. I had Monday AM service call about a printer not printing. Don't remember the specifics but when I resolved the issue, about 50 porno pics came (pun intended) came out of the printer. Seems they were stuck in the Que and started printing when I resolved the issue. The Staff Director asked me if I knew which computer sent the jobs to the printer. Turns out the member (no pun intended) had jammed the printer over the weekend.

Abrignac wrote:

they for sale?

frankj1 wrote:

hehehe

Abrignac wrote:

I take that as a yes.

I need some hot pics of GOP women for my porn collection....HA!

frankj1 wrote:

It's been so long ago I don't remember who it was let alone which he/she was a member of.

BTW, what do you have planned 5/18/2018 - 5/21/2018? There are still 31 spots available on the Endeavor. Plus, Victor is a probable.

Abrignac wrote: