Post by Ãldman©On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:24:57 -0600,Frank McCoy's cat ran across
the 'puter keyboard and out came...
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?Aw, what the hell - I'll just email it to you. I've seen you around
?long enough to not be worried about who I'm sending this to... I
?hope...
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?'m just who I appear to be.
? horny old goat who writes sex-stories.
?n *idiot* horny old goat who writes perveted sex-stories about little
?irls who seduce older men, under his own real name.
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?ight now, I'm an out-of-work horny old goat. ;-{
?fter 40 years as TV technician, Electronics technician, engineer, Chief
?ngineer, R&D enginneer, programmer, analyst Systems Analyst, Product
?evelopment engineer, Product Assurance Engineer, Quality-Control
?pecialist and programmer, Designer, Quality Diagnostic Engineer, and
?ikely a dozen other such titles, now I can't even get a job doing
?cut-work as a temp. I got to those "golden years" of being over 60,
?here nobody will hire you.
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?'m in the phone-book.
?een here at this address for over twenty years, and with this
?hone-number for close to thirty. Had this same email address with my
?wn name for over 10 years now.
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?f anybody had noticed I was somebody other than who I claim to be,
?ou'd think it would be obvious by now.
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How many times have I told you, I have a job waiting for you up here!
A. Not *going* to Canada!
Up THERE, I would be a felon, for the stories I write.
At the very *least* I would have to stop posting new ones.
Ain't a gonna' happen. Sorry.
B. The wife doesn't want to move.
It's either here where her family and friends are,
OR it's out to Oregon, where MY family is.
No other places need apply; and most certainly NOT Canada!
She thinks it's horrible enough down HERE with OUR winters!
My wife *hates* the cold.
Post by Ãldman©For myself - I had no choice but to become self-employed. Stole a few customers
from former employers and away I went. Not a lot of money but it does pay the
bills. If I had someone like you to team up with, the sky would be the limit.
The economy here is 'booming'. Shortages of highly skilled all over the place.
But, as you stated, nobody wants to hire us 'old' folk.
From the looks of your fence (re:windchimes pics) - you could use a few extra
bucks for repairs!!!!
That's sheer laziness, not lack-of-money.
I *have* the replacement posts out in back of the shed.
I just haven't gotten the gumption up to replace the 5 or 6 posts needed
every year for the whole fence, the past year or so. About that many
rot out each year; and (of course) I keep putting off such heavy manual
labor as long as the wife lets me get away with it. It's not like a
leaking roof or leaky faucet or sticky door or other problem with the
house that would cause problems, so I fix THEM immediately.
Though: I'll admit I put off cleaning out the gutters all summer long
....
Post by Ãldman©BTW - the Supreme Court of Canada did rule a few years back that writing
your 'type' of stories is NOT a criminal offence (as long as you do not let
them fall into the wrong hands).
Exactly. But putting them out on the web *is* (by their definition)
letting them fall in the wrong hands. I watched that decision with
interest. Having them for my *own* usage is not a crime ... or, more
correctly, as I read the decision, it *is* a crime, but they cannot come
searching my house for the material, even if they know it's there. If
they *find* it in a search for other contraband though, I could be
charged ... if the DA (or Canadian equivalent) was asshole enough. But
putting my stories out on the web or in newsgroups would be
"distributing child porn" by their definition; and a felony.
It would be *really* interesting to see their take on me being up there,
having *already* posted such material to newsgroups and/or having it
available on websites (like ASSTR) but not ever doing so from up there
after I arrived. Would I, COULD I be arrested for something I did down
here, where it was legal, but is a crime up there?
As I said, it would interesting ... But I really don't want to be the
test-case myself. Somebody else can have that privilege.
Down here in the US of A, they have a Constitution, and in that
Constitution they have what is called "The Bill of Rights". The first
article of which says that I can say anything or print anything *in
words* that I want and post them where I wish, as long as they're not
solicitation of a crime or something similar. Stories in particular are
exempt (right now anyway) from prosecution. Or so it's been interpreted
so far. At one time in this country (under the Comstock Act) the
interpretation was terribly different; and free speech about sex in any
manner just did not exist. But the SCOTUS threw that law out as
unconstitutional about 40 to 50 years ago.
Up in Canada, they have no such articles.
Sorry, but I just don't like the inside of jails; and I'm not that fond
of the inside of courtrooms where I happen to be the defendant ... even
if I win. For one reason, if no other, when I'm defending myself in
court, money, LOTS of money is going OUT while none is coming IN.
That's a problem I have far too much of already, without defending my
stories or the posting of them to people who think that such things are
dangerous or abusing children in some manner.
Post by Ãldman©Alberta is THE place to be these days - MAJOR oil sands projects are in the
planning stages that are going to be 'cutting edge' as far as technology is
concerned. Not a good idea to maintain two residences, though. I did it for a
year while I worked in Southern Cal. and got nailed for taxes in both
countries.
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