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From: marc@pyuxn.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Ya gotta be kidding
Message-ID: <204@pyuxn.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Sep-83 22:41:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  9 22:41:57 1983
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Come on !!
   I may be new to this news group, and perhaps its a slow month, but
Ya gotta be kidding. There are people who type in their experiences of 
first dates of computers.  Lets get real !! It's a machine !! It can't
think. It can't generate thought. Why are people informing others of 
the first time they typed on a computer keyboard. 

   There are so many worthwhile social issues to speak of.. For example

   - Why are hackers often socially backward ?

   - What makes one become a hacker, what is the driving force ?

   - Why are hackers getting such publicity nowadays (e.g. WARGAMES)

   - Why do systems programmers, by and large, have the same attitudes on
     wine, women, song and philosophy ?

                                                 Maybe this will generate
                                                    interesting conversation
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                                               Marc Schare- BTL PISCATAWAY