>Umm, no, the original point was that Congress should not be trusted with
>anything to do with technology, since its record over the past decade or so
>is a sad and sorry tale. Did you forget that part already?
I started this thread so you telling me what the original point was is a
bit odd. No?
My point was that I saw some movement in the direction of better
understanding on the part of some Senators.
Jeff's confusion is a classic example of how a policy of disinformation
can make people believe things that are demonstrably false. A politician
states a fact, then a reporter and/or an opponent misquotes the
statement and turns it into a lie. The opponent repeats the lie ad
nauseam until the lie is so familiar that it sounds like the truth. Or a
politician tells lies, and supporters repeat the lies until the facts
are obscured. This happened when Al Gore was misquoted.
There are plenty of Senators and Representatives who are computer
literate, a few of whom are more than novices, or at least members of
their staff are. Were it not for savvy US Representatives like physicist
Rush Holt, the election fraud in 2000-2006--using proprietary software
and also manipulated databases--might have taken even longer to surface
for examination and important legislation.
Jeff - who do you think funded the research for the foundations of the
Internet/ARPANET? Did you know that ARPANET was a DOD creation? Didn't
you know that it was gummint funding for defense and university research?
Betty
--
"Say something five times and it becomes true."
Larry Speakes, Reagan's deputy press secretary.
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