Re: Re: PLEASE EDIT YOUR REPLIES! 8 Daily Digests today

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Petri Lahtinen wrote:
> And if you dont mind the ad that show in the right that find words 
> from your messages=
> so your every mail gets scanned... :-D
>
> http://www.google-watch.org/
This is one of the salient reasons why I prefer not to use G-Mail as 
great a program as it
obviously is.

Should things ever get scary in the United States, and as a dying and 
heavily armed empire,   history
says there is more than a remote possibility of this happening,  these 
companies will be pressured
into giving up information on their citizens.   It's already happened 
here in the US and don't be naive
if you think it can't happen in the future.

I'm not an alarmist.......such a scenario is a long ways off if it even 
ever happens
but the government has done so many secret and illegal things since 9/11 
that we only find out
about years later (when, of course, they decide not to prosecute the 
guilty parties) that
privacy is one of the single most important considerations in 
maintaining the semblance of
a democratic world.

Google is actually a very liberal company (and far less odious than 
Yahoo in that respect) but
faced with being closed down or capitulating to an aggressive and 
frightened government crack
down, I have no doubt that they'd share information (if they haven't 
already).

Now please,  this a looping forum so I don't want to get into politics,  
so if you vehemently disagree with
me about what I've postulated,  please let's continue this off list so 
we can all get back to discussing
looping and why the LP-1 is vastly superior to all forms of looping in 
hardware or software (that's a joke.....lol)

I just want to use the Daily Digest (and not have it overwhelm my inbox 
of emails) and not G-Mail and wanted everyone to know why I believe that.

respectfully,   rick

rick walker