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Re:Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited package... by perl4ever on Saturday July 25, 2020 @11:52PM (#23954303)
>It's innocent and safe. The government should have no business regulating what people do with seeds.

I feel like that boat has flown, or whatever. It's kind of like saying the government should have no business checking passports or levying an income tax or something.

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Re:Public asked to report receipt of any unsolicited package... by 1996 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:41PM (#23958271)
Modern geeks seem to only care about government control.

But I have read about the old time hackers, who yearned freedom and experimentation. It seemed to have been widespread: I have seen movies from the 1980s, and noticed the same thing: people seem less fearful, more open and ready to experiment.

It may sound silly to you, but I was awestruck by "Bill and Ted excellent adventure"!

Even with all the modern technology we have, I wish I had been born 20 or 30 years earlier, when freedom was still a thing and innocent fun was deemed innocent by default.

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