I know, right?! Like I said elsewhere, I'm probably letting the warm fuzzies of the holiday season get the better of me. Is there even any precedent for this?

I know, right?! Like I said elsewhere, I'm probably letting the warm fuzzies of the holiday season get the better of me. Is there even any precedent for this? Also, I seem to remember a quote from the mathematician Hardy boasting that he loved working in pure number theory because it had no application (military or otherwise) to the real world. Fast forward 50 years and pure number theory is widely used in encryption technologies ... so you just never know. Anyway, and this might be cynical but a system that is used to imposing its will down the barrel of a gun will surely just take what they want regardless of the prohibitions. I am reminded of the blessing that accompanies the public domain Sqlite. http://www.sqlite.org/different.html http://www.sqlite.org/different.html May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Evil is such a comic book superhero word nowadays but I wonder how many times Sqlite has been put to nefarious ends.