You, Frank Scott, wrote:

>The problem is one of priorities of government, which, currently and in the
>past, has been based on something other than benefits to humanity. The
>high-tech development-using our tax dollars-that has helped put these
>machines on our desks, also did a much bigger job at creating and using
>weapons of mass destruction. Had we been given a choice between computers
>for peace and mis-guided missiles of war, maybe things would have been
>different. But we were not given such a choice, nor will we ever be given
>one. We need to create it, democratically.
No argument there.

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Tresy Kilbourne, Seattle WA
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H.L. Mencken