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From: "Herb Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:37:59 -0400
Subject: for politech

You might be amused about this one

 >From the July 2001 Scientific American

in July 1901, Scientific American said this:

     State Security vs. Technology

     "The inexplicable conservatism and arrogance of the Turkish customs
     authorities was recently shown by the prohibition of the importation
     of typewriters into the country.  The reason advanced by the
     authorities was that in the event of seditious writing executed by
     the typewriter being circulated, it would be impossible to obtain
     any clew by which the operator of the machine could be traced.  A
     large consignment of 200 typewriters was lying in the custom house
     at the time the above law was passed, and will have to be
     returned."

Many things are not new...

herb




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