Common sense says that if someone does not want to be seen, heard and read don't do any of it in a place viewable by the public. There is no expectation of privacy in public space in the US. I don't know Japanese laws. I made the mistake of photographing and video taping signs--from public space--erected by a woman who had a story to tell. I had five different criminal harassment charges place against me. It took lots of money and 15 months to have the charges dismissed. If you want to see: http://berniesayers.com/OracleOfFortescue.htm

I've been a parachute instructor, jumpmaster and jump pilot since 1972. This issue is old news for us.

"It's usually just called "stalking""

Are you nuts? There are strict requirements for "stalker" to apply. The ones you mention don't meet the criteria. At least not in New Jersey, where I live.

When people, such as yourself, are allowed to label people as a stalker simply because YOU think they are our society is falling apart.

I was recently charged with 'criminal harassment' by a women who gave me permission FIVE times to take pictures of her 'public spectacle" which she created for the world to see. Now, I have to spend money to defend my right to photographer her signs.

Take a look here: http://BernieSayers.com Look at the videos I took. See what you think.

Maybe I submit my story to SlashDot....Anyone want to do that??

Goodbye Morse Code...

I've been a radio amateur for 55 years...since age 11. Holy shit, that makes me olde! Learning Morse was a rite of passage thing and one of the peak experiences of my life...along with first parachute jump, first solo take-off and landing, first flight in an airplane that I built and first sex. Well, maybe not up there with the first sex, but you get the idea.

I spent 2.5 years in the 82nd Airborne Division during Viet Nam. Fortunately from me, not in-country. During my tour with the 82nd, I was one of only two people out of two dozen in my unit who could copy Morse well enough to actually use it as a communications medium during combat. The other person was a career sergeant who happened to get a big kick out of operating with Morse. The point: two dozen or more radio operators whose Army job classification required Morse ability couldn't use it for communications. This was 1960-61 when the most reliable means of communication in the jungle s of 'nam and Cambodia was Morse code.

Let's see what happens when a nuke war EMP knocks out all our IC-based systems and we have no tube radios for commo.

Had the Internet existed when I got into ham radio I wouldn't have bothered learning code.

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