OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Jul 5 10:46:12 2001

That's because people all seem to care about guns ...

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne M. Smith" <wmsmith_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)


> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > > You can make the same argument for guns, now can't you?
> The fact is,
> > > lambasting any technology because of what it can be used
> for is attacking
> > > the problem from the wrong end.
> >
> > That's how I was hoping someone would reply! :-) Please
> note that I
> > was playing a bit of devil's advocate when I wrote that.
> It's not the
> > computers, guns, cars, knives or rocks that are dangerous,
> but the
> > people who use them for harmful purposes. If we didn't
> have
> > computers, they'd surely find a way to do something
> equally bad, would
> > then not?
> >
> Ask a question about a DECstation 78, you get silence. But
> just mention guns, and everyone's got something to say.
>
>
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