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   Message 137 of 679   
   Magi D. Shepley to Markasurus Probertasaurus   
   Re: Attention, parents of CMU students!   
   19 Oct 03 00:12:05   
   
   XPost: misc.education, soc.bi, misc.kids.health   
   XPost: soc.rights.human   
   From: magid@catsincyberspace.concentriccircles.net   
      
   Well, yea, I know.  But it stretching things because very few people had   
   access to ARPANet.   
      
   Magi   
      
   Markasurus Probertasaurus wrote:   
   > "Magi D. Shepley"  wrote in   
   > message news:3F918759.5080909@catsincyberspace.concentriccircles.net...   
   >   
   >>   
   >>Barbara Schwarz wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Tell me how you can live in peace and in the pursuit of happiness if   
   >>>even educators promote how to build bombs and throw them? As long as   
   >>>there are so many crazy people on earth, we can't promote just about   
   >>>anything.   
   >>   
   >>People did these things WELL before the Internet existed, Barbara.  You   
   >>may not believe it, but there were murders before they were newspapers!   
   >>  Oh no!  How did people get the information out?  The Crusades weren't   
   >>on CNN.  Neither was the Crimean War...  World War I was on film.  World   
   >>War II was on film.  The first *war* that made the Internet would be   
   >>this latest one...  I suppose you could say that ARPANet had things   
   >>about the wars from the 70s when it started, but that's stretching things!   
   >   
   >   
   > Actually, I was on ARPANET and it did have quite a bit of these things. In   
   > fact, there were detailed weapons making instructions.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
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