[rescue] SM81

[Mike Hebel]

Dave McGuire wrote:
>> True but appearances are everything in this society right now.
> 
> 
>   True, if you associate with those sorts of people.

*sigh* Sometimes they're hard to avoid.  Maybe I've just ended up 
attracting them in my lifetime. ;-)


>> Unless he moves out of the US or to a non-populated area he'll 
>> probably have the same problems.  You have to remember the amount of 
>> paranoia that is actively being created by the media today.  You might 
>> be a "music pirate" or worse a "hacker" working for Osama/Saddam.  
>> Don't show any porn on your screen or you might be suspected as a 
>> pedophile even if the porn is legal.  Use "chat rooms"?  You're a 
>> sexual predator or a drug dealer.  MIB said it best - "A person is 
>> smart.  People are dumb, panicky, and you know it!".
> 
> 
>   Speaking as both a landlord and a tenant, I call "bullshit".  While I 
> agree with most of your statements, I disagree wholeheartedly that 
> anyone who does any of these things will automatically have trouble with 
> their landlord in every case.  I do all of those things, and I 
> definitely have had problems...in ONE INSTANCE...one instance in the 
> past fifteen years of renting, spread over ten houses & apartments.

I'll accept that and count myself possibly ove-paranoid about the 
subject.  I just seem to see that trend from earlier years to now. 
Hmmm...maybe my data is skewed.  Probably too small a sample.  I need to 
travel more.

>   Well, except for the porn thing.  I don't really do porn because I 
> spend time with REAL LIVE WOMEN.  What a concept.  But that's a whole 
> different story.

Inflatable women don't count Dave - even with sound chips and AI. *ducks*

Mike Hebel