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Re: CMR versus GAK?
On Mon, Oct 27, 1997 at 07:45:38AM -0500, John Young wrote:
> Lutz wrote:
>
> >May be in your (poor) country. There is a world outside US.
>
> Good point, and note that there are many other worlds within the US
> besides the LOOD stud-employer-has-manifest-destiny-control
> version.
>
> But it is good marketing to sell fearful business owners gadgets
> and to perpetuate their sense of knowing what's going on behind
> their backs, as with frightened pols, spies, cops, parents and
> straights, leaky prophylactics supplemented with arms to bear
> when the hints of betrayal and inadequacy become unbearable.
Implicit you make the notion there is no merit. But experience is a
harsh mistress -- employees do steal. This is not fiction, but fact.
> Not that the gadgets and arms work when you can't ID or crosshair
> the elusive backalley cats aprowl.
>
> Same goes for workers and youngsters who think the bosses and
> oldsters are duncemunge: WSJ, Dilbert and Phrack are funnies to
> avoid the admitting the deeper complicity of secret crossovers by
> your favorite peer group into the opposing camps, political, economic,
> legal, scientific, not to say no longer secure national and sexual borders.
People change. Usually, they learn. Sometimes they burn.
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