While it's standard practice these days for border patrol to scan through a traveler's luggage, discharging a firearm three times into a bag containing a laptop isn't an action that seems good for security control.
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Merry Christmas, but be careful if you are crossing international borders :-)
Cheers Don...
Well it was only a Mac. So who cares?????
More relevantly, it was Israeli security. So who is surprised? This is SOP.
Fark, there's a name I havent seen in a hell of a long time, if its the same one.
at:
System.http://www.dontronics.com/first_multi_user_real_time.html
Not a surprise, considering the country involved. At first guessed US or UK, they would be the only others (short of crackpot dictatorships) mental enough to pull a stunt like this.
one.
you mean:
I recall when I wrote Lewin a letter of recommendation from Dontronics, to potential US employers on the 19th January 1999, as he had completed some work for me.
He has come a long way since then!
Me, I just got older :-) (and rounder) (Shorter?)
Cheers Don...
Don McKenzie wrote
one.
Yep, that's the one.
completed some work for me.
The other Edwards ended up in the loony bin, quite literally, at least twice.
I didnt, just as skinny as I always was |-)
ame one.
It's not my fault you live your life in a silk-lined tunnel, holding the trapdoor closed with your two front legs and waiting for prey to walk by. Still connected to Fidonet?
Ah yes, I remember being young and single and carefree too ;)
Lol Rod-spider:-)
ad completed some work for me.
ice.
Do I know this other Edwards? Someone from the BBS_USER days?
larwe wrote
Cant remember, maybe not.
Aust_AVTech days mostly.
larwe wrote
one.
Nope. Its still around allegedly but I havent used it in something like a decade now.
I can't remember being young. I think I was born old. I can't remember being single.
My dad said there was 3 signs of old age, but I can't remember any of them either.
Carefree. I'm almost there now. :-)
Cheers Don...
You don't need to remember things these days. There's always wikipedia
thanks, I'll try to remember that
Cheers Don...
one.
Rod was one of the reasons that zone 3 fidonet collapsed when it did, although it was on borrowed time given the increasing popularity of the internet.
keithr wrote
one.
Still connected to Fidonet?
Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed pommy fantasys.
internet.
You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist pathetic little drug crazed pommy f*****ts ?
Whoa, if I hold my ear up to the screen just so, I can hear the sound of V.FC modems negotiating in 1990. Freaky.
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