[ccmay]

That's a legitimate concern on Dell's part. The International Trade in Arms regulations could be used against them.

You know, I have to wonder how likely it is that an arms-smuggling front company set up by bin Laden or the Iraqis would have the words "Combat Handguns" in its name. Probably it is on a par with the likelihood of a well-organized and well-financed terrorist buying a one-way airline ticket with cash.

This kind of thing is just a show for the sheeple so bureaucrats and corporate PR people can say they are doing something to fight terrorism. Dell would do a lot more for this cause by refusing to sell to any Muslim group or country, just as we could dramatically enhance airline security by giving young Muslim men the El Al treatment every time they got on the plane, and leaving the grandmas from Duluth alone. But alas, we are a nation of cowards and appeasers and moral retards.

-ccm

[Harrison Bergeron]

See post 37. Nobody said it was right or fair. It's just the way it is.

[Probus]

My response to Dell follows: I can certainly understand how mistakes are made, but I have a problem with your logic. If someone sends you an order from Osama bin Ladens Plutonium and Nuclear Missile plant you will do further investigation, but if you get one from Osama bin Laden Day Care and Dog Grooming, you will not. This is as ludicrous as believing criminals turn in guns when they are no longer deemed legal. Criminals (with the exception of motorcycle gangs) do not advertise that they are criminals.