Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!rpw3 From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: trees and sound - (nf) Message-ID: <2548@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 04:03:54 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2548 Posted: Thu Feb 16 04:03:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:40:31 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 28 #R:vice:-126000:fortune:5400078:000:868 fortune!rpw3 Feb 16 00:53:00 1984 +--------------- | If a tree falls in the forest, and it is not reported to management, | does it make a sound? +--------------- Ah yes, 1984: If a tree falls, and the forest was not zoned for commercial use, and you have not previously applied for a license to listen to trees, and you hear it... ...can you be arrested for unauthorized use of Federal Property and be remanded to an institution until such time as the memory of having heard it can be shown (by the Board of Questionable Memories) to have no further threat to National Security? ...can you be sued for violation of Copyright by recording the sound in your memory? ...are the previous two "crimes" the same? Rob Warnock UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3 DDD: (415)595-8444 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065