Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Matthew Munson to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Wed Apr 01 2026 08:01 pm

if its honestly ectopic, you just show proof its ectopic and one should be exempt. Im open to some flexiblity.

Yes, but Florida law isn't!

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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Bf2k+ <=-

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You got that right... here in VA, the new communist regime is trying to classify my water pistol as an assault weapon.

Do you have a citation for this?

All I could find was an article about Virginia teens being cautioned
by the local sherriff against playing Senior Assassin, a game where you run around with water pistols and "assassinating" other players. A
logical warning, if you don't want to get accidentally shot my law enforcement.

I remember a time when water pistol fun outdoors was just that, and no
worry about getting shot by the po-po. Of course, back then we were
probably doing in daylight, not dark, and the guns were not black or gun
metal colored.


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My dad grew up in the Detroit area (class of 1980 Clintondale) and he
remembers going to college down in Detroit at wayne state a lot of shootings happened there he said back in 1984 he was walking with a group of friends
late in the evening when a 6 year old African American kid ran past them
saying he was going to make his dad proud of him carrying a huge brick of cocaine he got to the end of the street and a bike pulled up and shot him to death Detroit wasn't called murder capitol USA for nothing!


On 4/4/26 10:01 AM, in article 69D11A2E.63740.dove-deb@vert.synchro.net,
"Mike Powell (VERT/CAPTEST)" <VERT/CAPTEST!Mike.Powell@45.79.37.227>
wrote:

I remember a time when water pistol fun outdoors was just that,
and no worry about getting shot by the po-po. Of course, back
then we were probably doing in daylight, not dark, and the guns
were not black or gun metal colored.

there was a time when you could go outside with a pellet gun, rifle
or pistol and people wouldn't bat an eye. and it wasn't so long
ago (to me).

Yeah, in the 1980s I can remember wandering around the neighborhood
with my Crossman rifle and no one said anything. The "trick" was not shooting at anything until I got to the woods.

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Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

My dad grew up in the Detroit area (class of 1980 Clintondale) and he remembers going to college down in Detroit at wayne state a lot of shootings happened there he said back in 1984 he was walking with a
group of friends late in the evening when a 6 year old African American kid ran past them saying he was going to make his dad proud of him carrying a huge brick of cocaine he got to the end of the street and a bike pulled up and shot him to death Detroit wasn't called murder
capitol USA for nothing!

At what grade level did you drop out of school?




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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Snes1423 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 04 2026 06:56 pm

On a BBS, it's standard to add your reply to the bottom, not the top of (above) quoted text.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Snes1423 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 04 2026 06:56 pm

On a BBS, it's standard to add your reply to the bottom, not the top of (above) quoted text.

Oh, flashbacks to the Outlook wars of the early 2000s! All of the internet-standard clients like Eudora and Netscape did proper bottom
quoting, then came Outlook.

One guy was inventive - he found an x-header he could set on emails that
would throw up a status line in the email on outlook saying something
like "Top posting is for Id10tz!!!1" or something like that.



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On 4/5/26 9:32 AM, in article
69D2645E.10848.dove-debate@palantirbbs.ddns.net, "Gamgee (VERT/PALANTIR)" <VERT/PALANTIR!Gamgee@45.79.37.227> wrote:

Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

My dad grew up in the Detroit area (class of 1980 Clintondale) and he remembers going to college down in Detroit at wayne state a lot of shootings happened there he said back in 1984 he was walking with a group of friends late in the evening when a 6 year old African American kid ran past them saying he was going to make his dad proud of him carrying a huge brick of cocaine he got to the end of the street and a bike pulled up and shot him to death Detroit wasn't called murder capitol USA for nothing!

At what grade level did you drop out of school?

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11th again I come from a multilingual background so sorry if my formatting
is off (English German Polish/Kashub)

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On 4/5/26 8:12 PM, in article 69D2FA5F.679.dove.debate@realitycheckbbs.org, "poindexter FORTRAN (VERT/REALITY)" <VERT/REALITY!poindexter.FORTRAN@45.79.37.227> wrote:

Nightfox wrote to Snes1423 <=-

Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Snes1423 to Mike Powell on Sat Apr 04 2026 06:56 pm

On a BBS, it's standard to add your reply to the bottom, not the top of (above) quoted text.

Oh, flashbacks to the Outlook wars of the early 2000s! All of the internet-standard clients like Eudora and Netscape did proper bottom
quoting, then came Outlook.

One guy was inventive - he found an x-header he could set on emails that would throw up a status line in the email on outlook saying something
like "Top posting is for Id10tz!!!1" or something like that.

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Yeah im new to this whole Usenet thing :D

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Snes1423 wrote to Gamgee <=-

Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

My dad grew up in the Detroit area (class of 1980 Clintondale) and he remembers going to college down in Detroit at wayne state a lot of shootings happened there he said back in 1984 he was walking with a group of friends late in the evening when a 6 year old African American kid ran past them saying he was going to make his dad proud of him carrying a huge brick of cocaine he got to the end of the street and a bike pulled up and shot him to death Detroit wasn't called murder capitol USA for nothing!

At what grade level did you drop out of school?

11th again I come from a multilingual background so sorry if my
formatting is off (English German Polish/Kashub)

It's not the formatting.

Look up the word "punctuation" and the phrase "run on sentence".

Thanks.



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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Matthew Munson on Thu Apr 02 2026 07:26 pm

Yes, but Florida law isn't!

Fuckin nailed it. These laws, same as
the gun laws in other states, are
written by the clueless and the
malicious.


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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Fri Apr 03 2026 01:17 pm

I remember a time when water pistol > outdoors was just that, and no
worry about getting shot by the po-p > Of course, back then we were
probably doing in daylight, not dark > and the guns were not black or gun metal colored.

You may recall the "defun the police"
movement. While the messaging was
abysmal, one of the things that they
were discussing was that police are
militarized to such a degree and amped
up to such a degree that the risk of
kids getting shot for just playing
games like kid have always done has
appered to go up.

Their solution was obviously to
de-militarize the cops. I'm not sure ifthat would have been enough or even address the issue at hand (among the
others) but it was conversation that
ended too soon and I suspect will occuragain several time before I die.



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Yeah im new to this whole Usenet thing :D

Welcome!

Mike


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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Snes1423 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Apr 05 2026 10:52 pm

Yeah im new to this whole Usenet thing :D

Usenet? You're posting on a BBS message network, not Usenet.

Nightfox

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Hey Nightfox!

On Mon, Apr 06 2026 13:40:46 -0500, you wrote:

Usenet? You're posting on a BBS message network, not Usenet.

He's posting to a BBS message network via NNTP, much like I am with this message. Maybe that's why there is confusion between the two.

Regards,
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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: Vilenihilist to Dumas Walker on Mon Apr 06 2026 09:31 am

You may recall the "defun the police" movement. While the messaging was abysmal, one of the things that they were discussing was that police are militarized to such a degree and amped up to such a degree that the risk of kids getting shot for just playing games like kid have always done has appered to go up.

We can talk about how police appear as an occupying force these days, now it seems that they're behaving that way instead of as officers sworn to protect and serve the people they're too often, killing.

There are reports of police training where they're told the most important thing is to get back to your family at the end of your shift. Nothing else matters.

In the documentary "Do Not Resist", Dave Grossman, a prolific police trainer is teaching a class of law enforcement officers about the use of force.

In the class recorded for the documentary, Grossman at one point tells his students that the sex they have after they kill a human being will be the best sex of their lives.

Psychologist William Lewinski lectures police to prioritize split-second firing decisions over de-escalation and that "pre-emptive force" is necessary.

With direction like this, you're going to attract the kind of people that align with ideas like these.

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I remember a time when water pistol > outdoors was just that, and no worry about getting shot by the po-p > Of course, back then we were probably doing in daylight, not dark > and the guns were not black or gun metal colored.

You may recall the "defun the police" movement. While the messaging was abysmal, one of the things that they were discussing was that police are militarized to such a degree and amped up to such a degree that the risk of kids getting shot for just playing games like kid have always done has appered
to go up.

Their solution was obviously to de-militarize the cops. I'm not sure ifthat would have been enough or even
address the issue at hand (among the others) but it was conversation that ende
too soon and I suspect will occuragain several time before I die.

While their messaging was abysmal, some here will probably blame "the conservatives" who spread a false message about the movement. Problem was
that there were supporters spouting off the same bad message -- "take all
their money away."

It didn't help that some of their biggest supporter/bad messengers were
elected officials.


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Psychologist William Lewinski lectures police to prioritize split-second firing
decisions over de-escalation and that "pre-emptive force" is necessary.

I unfortunately suspect that if you don't prioritize firing decisions these days, your name is going on a memorial somewhere.

I mostly agree with the rest of what you said.


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Just saw that the other day a Tennessee man who had a feud with his neighbor who was an animal activist get arrested and thrown in jail due to him firing
a gun on his 40 acre property which echoed as he was doing target practice
with his 12-year old son so yes there is a lot of malfeasance in law enforcement but the big myth is that its all racial without exception just a decade ago if I recall correctly there was a African immigrant who was a
police officer and he responded to crime that was taking place and a polish woman walked out of nowhere and surprised him and he blew her away he got
very little jail time compared to the killer of George Floyd for instance
the largest lynching by racists was to a bunch of Sicilian immigrants who
were dark skinned well over a century ago in Louisiana they found them not guilty of a false charge of murder and they were mobbed and lynched the
moment they stepped out of the court-house


On 4/7/26 12:22 PM, in article 69D52F61.28879.dove-deb@capcity2.synchro.net, "Dumas Walker (VERT/CAPCITY2)" <VERT/CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@45.79.37.227> wrote:

I remember a time when water pistol > outdoors was just that, and no
worry about getting shot by the po-p > Of course, back then we were
probably doing in daylight, not dark > and the guns were not black or gun >>> metal colored.

You may recall the "defun the police" movement. While the messaging was
abysmal, one of the things that they were discussing was that police are
militarized to such a degree and amped up to such a degree that the risk of >> kids getting shot for just playing games like kid have always done has
appered
to go up.

Their solution was obviously to de-militarize the cops. I'm not sure ifthat >> would have been enough or even
address the issue at hand (among the others) but it was conversation that
ende
too soon and I suspect will occuragain several time before I die.

While their messaging was abysmal, some here will probably blame "the conservatives" who spread a false message about the movement. Problem was that there were supporters spouting off the same bad message -- "take all their money away."

It didn't help that some of their biggest supporter/bad messengers were elected officials.

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Re: Re: Right to Life
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Vilenihilist on Mon Apr 06 2026 04:57 pm

We can talk about how police appear as an occupying force these days, now it seems that they're behaving that way instead of as officers sworn to protect and serve the people they're too often, killing.

The fun part is people is acting as if LEOs had ever been anything but enforcers of the will of the government.

I don't think anything has really changed, and if anybody thinks it has gone for the worse they should pick up and read police manuals from the 60s.

BTW police forces are not abstrabt entities, they are composed of individuals and obviously the interests of each individual matter more to them than any random person. Which means it should not be surprising policemen are not catching a bullet for you anytime soon.

The incentives are there in the other direction, though. The police is less likely to issue a traffic ticket to a gypsy because the gypsy might call his cousins and beat them up, but if you look like a normal citizen you are safe to pester with tickets.


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Snes1423 wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

Just saw that the other day a Tennessee man who had a feud with his neighbor who was an animal activist get arrested and thrown in jail due
to him firing a gun on his 40 acre property which echoed as he was
doing target practice with his 12-year old son so yes there is a lot of malfeasance in law enforcement

I wonder if their 40 acre property is in a city limits somehow. Otherwise, that surprises me some about Tennessee. I have gone shooting on large,
private properties "out in the country" here in Kentucky and Ohio and not
run into issues.

but the big myth is that its all racial

without exception

That might be true but, IMHO if there is a racial element it is going
to get a lot more air time (actual news and social media) than otherwise.



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I mean like you had the bethel church shooting in the 60s in detroit


On 4/8/26 11:22 AM, in article 69D7A825.63786.dove-deb@vert.synchro.net,
"Mike Powell (VERT/CAPTEST)" <VERT/CAPTEST!Mike.Powell@45.79.37.227>
wrote:

Snes1423 wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

Just saw that the other day a Tennessee man who had a feud with his neighbor who was an animal activist get arrested and thrown in jail due to him firing a gun on his 40 acre property which echoed as he was
doing target practice with his 12-year old son so yes there is a lot of malfeasance in law enforcement

I wonder if their 40 acre property is in a city limits somehow. Otherwise, that surprises me some about Tennessee. I have gone shooting on large, private properties "out in the country" here in Kentucky and Ohio and not
run into issues.

but the big myth is that its all racial

without exception

That might be true but, IMHO if there is a racial element it is going
to get a lot more air time (actual news and social media) than otherwise.

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Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

I mean like you had the bethel church shooting in the 60s in detroit

You *STILL* don't understand what "top-posting" is, and why it sucks?

Stop being a derp.




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On 4/11/26 10:43 AM, in article 69DA5DFB.10884.dove-debate@palantirbbs.ddns.net, "Gamgee (VERT/PALANTIR)" <VERT/PALANTIR!Gamgee@45.79.37.227> wrote:

Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

I mean like you had the bethel church shooting in the 60s in detroit

You *STILL* don't understand what "top-posting" is, and why it sucks?

Stop being a derp.

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Sorry I think I got it now was using Entourage 2004 and it was sending it as
a top message due to a misconfigured setting

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Snes1423 wrote to Gamgee <=-

On 4/11/26 10:43 AM, in article 69DA5DFB.10884.dove-debate@palantirbbs.ddns.net, "Gamgee
(VERT/PALANTIR)" <VERT/PALANTIR!Gamgee@45.79.37.227> wrote:

Snes1423 wrote to Mike Powell <=-

I mean like you had the bethel church shooting in the 60s in detroit

You *STILL* don't understand what "top-posting" is, and why it sucks?

Stop being a derp.

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Pensacola,

FL
Sorry I think I got it now was using Entourage 2004 and it was sending
it as a top message due to a misconfigured setting

Okay, an improvement, at least.

Your next lesson is called "trimming". You see all the stuff above
between the word "derp" and the start of your response? You should edit
that out (delete it) as part of writing a response to somebody, because
that serves no purpose in the conversation and can be difficult to read.

Make your response look "nice". Clean up the excess, but it's also
IMPORTANT to leave in some of the previous conversation (called
"context"), so others can follow along with what is being talked about.



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Snes1423 wrote to Gamgee <=-

Sorry I think I got it now was using Entourage 2004 and it was sending
it as a top message due to a misconfigured setting

Wow, that's a name from the past! Of all of the old legacy apps to
continue using, WHY THAT ONE? All of my Mac users breathed a collective
sigh of relief when Microsoft rolled out Outlook for Mac.

Or, maybe that was my team supporting it that I heard. :)



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Snes1423 wrote to Gamgee <=-

You *STILL* don't understand what "top-posting" is, and why it sucks?

Sorry I think I got it now was using Entourage 2004 and it was sending
it as a top message due to a misconfigured setting

Looks like you got it fixed.

Mike

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On 4/20/26 10:25 AM, in article
69E63770.715.dove.debate@realitycheckbbs.org, "poindexter FORTRAN (VERT/REALITY)" <VERT/REALITY!poindexter.FORTRAN@45.79.37.227> wrote:

Snes1423 wrote to Gamgee <=-

Sorry I think I got it now was using Entourage 2004 and it was sending it as a top message due to a misconfigured setting

Wow, that's a name from the past! Of all of the old legacy apps to
continue using, WHY THAT ONE? All of my Mac users breathed a collective
sigh of relief when Microsoft rolled out Outlook for Mac.

Or, maybe that was my team supporting it that I heard. :)

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Well I have a copy of outlook 2011 along with office 2011 but to my surprise
it doesn't have Usenet support... Plus a Core 2 Duo is too slow for most web based tasks (i.e I have a early 2009 iMac running Leopard 10.5.8) so I kind
of have it set up as a time capsule from 2009 most of what I do on the web needs a 3rd gen dual core or 2nd gen quad core processor or later to do well and I have a XPS 8700 running Windows 8.1 (doesn't have a SSD otherwise I
would be running 10 if it wasn't for the horrible boot up times and the
frozen desktop when booted up) with a i7-4790 and a GTX 1060 with 16GB of
DDR3 memory and a ThinkPad T470 and a 2014 Mac mini (which I use for downgrading iOS devices)

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Snes1423 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

booted up) with a i7-4790 and a GTX 1060 with 16GB of DDR3 memory and a

Those are great CPUs. I have an old Dell inspiron 3847 with one of
those, and it was great. High power consumption, though. If it could
take more than 16 GB of RAM, I'd still be using it.



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Those are great CPUs. I have an old Dell inspiron 3847 with one of
those, and it was great. High power consumption, though. If it could
take more than 16 GB of RAM, I'd still be using it.

I had an old dell xps with an intel i7 3rd gen, but it died after an
lightning storm.
:(

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Well I have a copy of outlook 2011 along with office 2011 but to my surprise
it doesn't have Usenet support... Plus a Core 2 Duo is too slow for most

web

Yeah, Thunderbird IMO is the best for usenet access.

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Thunderbird actually pulled up some old emails from Thunderbird that I could not pull up in gmail.
So yeah I like thunderbird.

Some time ago, developers at Qualcomm took the Thunderbird engine and
skinned it to look like Eudora. Interesting idea, but I don't think it
took off.

Thunderbird Portable has been my go-to on the BBS for years. I can run
it from my documents folder and know I get all of the mail when I do a
backup. I'm not a fan of email software that stores mail in your
appdata folders.



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