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From: rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: Ya gotta be kidding
Message-ID: <2553@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 10:16:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 12 10:16:43 1983
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	From pyuxn!marc.

	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. 

Ya gotta be kidding.

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

   	- Why are hackers often socially backward ?

They don't care for most humans.

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

Love of power.

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

Because they deserve it. Hopefully the popular image of the computer nerd
will be updated to reality.

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

Unix is like sex - once you've had it, you can't do without it.


					-rehmi
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