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From: mp@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: polemic-argument-of-the-month award
Message-ID: <796@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Oct-83 20:30:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.796
Posted: Sun Oct  9 20:30:44 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Oct-83 10:52:59 EDT
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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I was debating sending this to net.jokes, too, but let's leave
it here (why should net.jokes have a corner on the silliness
market?)

>From genrad!decvax!linus!philabs!mcvax!piet Fri Oct  7 08:18:12 1983
>From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
>Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
>Subject: Re: What time is it?
>Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 08:18:12 EDT
>
>Long time ago wise men agreed the world needed some kind of time standard.
>So they got together and created it. They called it Greenwich Mean Time
>and it served men's purpose. Long, long time after that, when the war machine
>was spreading all over this planet and entered outer (?) space, the military
>- as usual - thought they could come up with something better. That they
>called ARPA standard and it served THEIR purpose.
>Then UNIX came into existence and it adopted GMT. And a news system was
>developed for it and for some reason adopted ARPA standard.
>
>Now, pray tell, what is this network meant for?
>A military network spreading the Gospel of the Gun?
>Or a civil network for the spreading of Knowledge?
>Well then, let's stick to UNIX's timebase, the good old, simple and civil,
>GMT standard.
>-- 
>	Piet Beertema
>	Center for Math. & Comp. Science, Amsterdam
>	...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet
>

I hope this was a joke - if not, then I have some friends in the Fusion
Energy Foundation who can use you as a copywriter.
(Yes, I really do agree with some of the goals the FEF and LaRouche's
people are striving for - but they're losing all the support they could possibly
get, because of the methods they use to defend their beliefs).
	Mark