Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!halley!kidd From: kidd@halley.UUCP (Dave Kidd) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: I have here.. Message-ID: <1144@halley.UUCP> Date: 15 Nov 90 23:45:46 GMT References: <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> Reply-To: kidd@halley.UUCP (Dave Kidd) Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX Lines: 20 In md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown) writes: * *You can't expect such a diverse audience, here on the net, to all know a *speech that was given before most of us were born. It is not stressed in In article <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Doctor Benway) writes: >The only excuse for not recognizing that speach is poor education. It's certainly no sign of a poor (Canadian) education that I don't recognize that speech! It was given by a local politician, of purely national interest, to the population of a foreign country before I was born. And it was neither memorable nor important. So as long as we're trading value judgements, there's mine! Now, about that electronic frontier, which is going to TRANSCEND national boundaries, and must somehow help us bridge the fact that our backgrounds and contexts are NOT common, though our aspirations and daily problems may be ... -- David N. Kidd, Tandem Computers, Austin TX halley!kidd@cs.utexas.edu (512) 244-8820