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From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: CPSR vs. EFF
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.065931.4452@rfengr.com>
Date: 30 Jun 91 06:59:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.051845.30495@wpi.WPI.EDU> <1991Jun28.142859.20500@spool.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Jun28.202810.1594@craycos.com>
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In article <1991Jun28.142859.20500@spool.cs.wisc.edu> samuel@shemp.cs.wisc.edu (Samuel Bates) writes:
>
>	The point is that these deaths, due in large part to computer 
>	technology, benefitted nobody.

Hey!  Wait a minute!  I expected a dozen rebuttals to this
point, but haven't seen one.

What the hell do you mean "these deaths...benefitted
nobody?"

The complaint that many of us have is that the CSPR claims
to have some special kind of knowledge about whether the US
should have been there in the first place.

How does being a "Computer Professional" give you any
special insight about whether we should have helped liberate
Kuwait?  

Your entire argument is predicated on "these
deaths...benefitted nobody", and you have no special
qualifications to make that claim.

>> What would you think if a steel industry group (SPSR?)
>> took out an ad decrying the use of steel in the gulf war?
>> Would you think that it wasn't political?

What he said!

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