Comments on: Because They Are Scorpions

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:11:21 +0000

You have to wonder about the wingnut reaction. They don’t mind handing out other people’s addresses, but they seem a bit reluctant about their own.

Of course, you can always do it through a third party and not violate the letter of the law, and I assume people will start doing it that way.

You just can’t get these idiots to understand that laws only affect people who obey laws, not people who break them. Phishers are already committing fraud, so a fraudulent registration is to be assumed.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:56:29 +0000

Afterthought: I have held a P.O. Box for about 14 years now. Since shortly after 2001, in order to hold a P.O. Box, one must provide the USPS a physical address.

Why is that not sufficient? The Post Office, HPD, the Harris County Sheriff’s Department, the Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector and the Harris County Voter Registrar all have my physical address. Why should all the big corp’s in the world also have it?

I mean it. I’ll drop my domains before I give Bacardi my physical address.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:49:53 +0000

This act apparently hasn't made an appearance on thomas.loc.gov yet. But something called CADNA (Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, which includes such technological stellar lights as Bacardi, Hilton Hotels, Marriott, etc.) "strongly supports" the bill. Oh, yeah, the hotel industry and Tom DeLay's favorite booze company want every domain registrant's physical address; that's a great reason for passing this bill. I have registered two domain names for a long, long time. They are registered in my legitimate name and to my legitimate P.O. Box address. If I am forced to give my physical address to these yahoos (lowercase y), I shall drop both domain names forthwith, and continue my "nefarious" activities somewhere else. A friend has a domain in Christmas Island (.cx); he's an American citizen and a Republican... obviously Christmas Island will register anybody. Are they going to make it illegal for Americans to register foreign domain suffixes? I wish them lotsa friggin' luck!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:29:29 +0000

The Democrats have not exactly inspired me with their performance in control of Congress. I haven’t heard so many excuses since I was an acting First Sergeant for a student squadron.

By: distributorcap

distributorcap — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:53:51 +0000

first of all look at one of the sponsors — Ted “tubes” Stevens — that says tons already!

then
If these Senators wanted to do something useful

maybe they should join the House and spend hours and hours and HOURS investigating whether baseball players use steroids, because THAT REALLY MATTERS!