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    >     Cyberpope wrote --     
      
    > > I haven't had to give my son a paddling like I often got.   
      
    >   I don't recall any paddlings when young.  If I did they are long   
    > forgotten.   
      
   You must have been less curious & stubborn than I was.   
      
    > > When real young, I used the one-finger method of corporal discipline, a   
    > > simple flick of the nearest earlobe was enough to get his attention on   
    > > track.     
      
    >   Good idea.   
      
   It helped me keep myself in rein, knowing that I just cannot pass on tyhe   
   teaching styule jmy dad used, as I could wind up in court for it, defending my   
   right to have my son!   
      
    > > I recall my spankings; I still maintain they were erxcessive   
      
    >   Whenever one is punished for something when young they think its   
    > excessive, cruel, etc.  But years later realise it was for their own good.   
    >   I know there were times I would be pouting about something and how cruel   
    > my mother was, etc but eventually learned she wasn't and knew what she was   
    > doing.     
      
   100%, yes, sir, that's exactly it!   
      
   Mnty dad's spankings, too.  There are kids suing their parents for childhood   
   spankings now; I could likely make a case, but I don't believe he was abusive,   
   so I just go on in life, happy that I know right from wrong & couldn't steal if   
   I wanted to & could 100% get away with it.  Nor lie, which makes life difficult   
   at times, but I gotta be me. Then I find out from an 18yo that immigrated here   
   with his mom, whom I was helping, that in the Ukraine/Russia, lying is a fact   
   of life & if you don't lie, you can't make it in their society.   
      
   Good thi9ng I've h ad no designs to emigrate to a natoin where I'd be under   
   watch at any time & place, if not every. . .  at least here it's more subtle &   
   I can't deny I chose to have a smartpghone & a Windows computer.   
      
   & mostly I've gotten to the age where I just don't care about who knows what of   
   whsat I do or don't do.   
      
   If I get in a mood I might make offensive statements &/or gestures. . .   
      
   But mostly I've just left messages, via deleted notes that I leave in my   
   Recycle, as that's the only placethat's worth checking first for new data.   
      
   People delete the incriminating files asap. (of course, I know how to shred   
   them well & properly)   
      
   Put them in one folder, drop to DOS, go there &:   
      
   FOR X in (*.*) echo. > %X%   
   ECHO. > DEL *.*   
      
   Boom, nothing there to retrieve.   
      
   If cheeky, I put a short message instead of "." (e.g. echo "Domestic spies lick   
   their mothers vaginas" > %X%)   
      
   I used to do more of that type, but now I keep it simple.   
      
   Not that I gt much, if any, in the line of what would be considered, by bad   
   players in our government or corporations, to be contraband any more.   
      
   The lart stuff I did was jusdt to throw off trackers. (I'd spend the day on big   
   sites like microsoft) then go back a day later with the same computer, but a   
   whole new C: & D: set of drives, so they'd identify me as the same guy but find   
   no record of the trackers they plasce, not even a deletion point, & I know they   
   have ways of hiding trackers not discernable by the best tools out there.   
      
   I was doing nothing wrong.  Simply reminding them that they don't have carte   
   blanc in a free society.   
      
   When cops secure a hotel floor, they go through the floor, beginning at one   
   end, checking 7 clearing room by room.  So at any point they know that there's   
   no threat at their six.  I'm no threat, I just pop those cleared rom doors open   
   occasionally to keep them guessing.   
      
   I'm not a threat, I'm not a terrorist. I'm not an enemy of anyone. I'm just a   
   proponent of the freedoms & rights that exist on paper, in our Constitution.   
      
   & the established laws of my country.   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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