Staving Christophe Grandsire:
>Except that Iceland is a country which *has* a list of names people have
>to name their children from. They go so far that foreigners that want to
>get the Icelandic nationality have to change name and take a name (first
>name *and* last name, which is of the form "first name+son or daughter")
>which is allowed by Icelandic laws. We had a discussion about that a year
>or two ago on this list, and there was an Icelandic guy on the list who
>confirmed that Iceland did have those laws.
>
I'd presumably be Peter Erikson. That probably sounds good in Icelandic.
Of course, every culture has its own standard of what constitutes
infringement of personal liberty by the state. The trouble with the USA is
that it seems to contain large numbers of people who regard ANYTHING as
such an infringement.
Pete