Today's Topics:
Big Bob Bitmap Befuddlement
Burn Them Flags at Your Own Risk!
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Message-ID: <9005301559.AA08720@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 30 May 90 08:59:32 PDT
From: Jef Poskanzer <jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Big Bob Bitmap Befuddlement
>> begin 644 bob2.x.Z ...
>
>Excuse my bobbie ignorance, but how do we convert what was sent
>to normal bitmap format? ...or what format is this darn
>thing in? ..or kill me
Step one: put it in a file.
Step two: say "uudecode file".
Step three: say "uncompress bob2.x.Z".
Now you have an X11-format bitmap in bob2.x.
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Message-ID: <9005301807.AA09618@haedx> Date: Wed, 30 May 90 11:07:11 PDT From: Mason Jones <haedx.UUCP!mason@cgl.ucsf.edu> Reply-To: haedx.UUCP!mason@cgl.ucsf.edu To: SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Burn Them Flags at Your Own Risk!
Further evidence that members of our government continue to lose their grasp on the real world...especially in Louisiana. -----------------------------------------------------------------
(from San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday May 29, 1990)
NEW THREAT TO FLAG BURNERS
Chronicle Wire Services
The Louisiana House yesterday narrowly approved legislation that would dramatically lessen the penalties for a person convicted of assaulting someone who desecrates the U.S. flag. On a vote of 54 to 39, with 53 the bare majority, the lower chamber approved the measure by Representative James David Cain, a Democrat, and sent it to the Senate for further action. Under the bill, a person convicted of simple battery of a flag burner would pay a maximum fine of $25 without being sentenced to prison. Currently, the maximum state penalty for simple battery is a $500 fine and six months in prison. "I am sick and tired of marijuana-planting, dope-smoking hippies burning the American flag," Cain said. "Not a one of us in this room has not lost an ancestor at some time defending the American flag." Representative Randy Roach, however, said: "It is not the flag that has kept us free. It is the rights and privileges which are guaranteed to each American by law which is responsible for our survival as a free nation. "If this bill passes, then we as a Legislature have placed every right, every freedom, every privilege guaranteed to us and embodied in our Constitution at risk for $25," he said.
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