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| DATE | 2003-09-02 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] unInteresting article on Valenti
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:19:31PM -0400, Steve Milo wrote:
> In the 60's they laughed at the US for attempting to create what we
> today call the internet.
Did they? I've NEVER heard that.
I think they would have recognized its strategic importance.
> Shit, they even lauged at the US for trying
> to put men on the moon and bringing them back.
Yeah, and I'm still laughing at us for that.
It was a pointless, dangerous, and vastly expensive propaganda maneuver.
The USSR started the space race with Sputnik, and followed up as the
first nation to engineer a manned space flight. I'm sure they were
laughing at us then, and they earned the position from which to do so.
> But its obvious who won in the end.
Did we win because we have an internet or because we put men on the moon?
Think!
> I was probably a little harsh on him, he does have a right to voice
> his opinion on important matters. Actually I was probably completely
> wrong about him.
He has the right to have his ass handed to him when he says stupid
things, too. Remember the Boston strangler....
> If he was able to make the kind of headway he has in Congress I
> shouldn't have any doubt he is a very intelligent man.
Yup.
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