Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!proxftl!twwells!bill From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet Message-ID: <214@twwells.uucp> Date: 27 Nov 88 08:15:27 GMT References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <268@lloyd.camex.uucp> <2331@cbnews.ATT.COM> Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale Lines: 24 In article bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes: : lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: : > : God forbid the russians get a hold of the latest proof of the : superiority of objectivist cisc cpus... Can you say "ad hominem"? Good. Now, can you offer your objections without descending to ad hominems? Wonderful! Anyway, as I understand it, Mr. Cipriani is not an Objectivist. However, I am. As it happens, I disagree with him, believing that the potential disruption caused by Usenet in the USSR more than balances the possible savings they might obtain from not having to intercept it outside their empire. This opinion, obtained from uncertain evidence, is one that can be legitimately argued, so I won't fault him, or anyone else, for holding the other view. We just don't know. --- Bill {uunet|novavax}!proxftl!twwells!bill