From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer Newsgroups: net.misc Title: An Interesting Article From Canada Article-I.D.: watmath.2402 Posted: Fri May 14 11:52:42 1982 Received: Sat May 15 03:57:03 1982 There are two things that I'd like to point out to all of you out there who might otherwise be misled: First, calling the Mope and Wail Canada's finest newspaper is rather like calling the Toronto Make Believes Canada's finest hockey team. It just ain't so, not so long as there's a Vancouver Sun. Further, the only individual who could possibly believe such a blatant falsehood is one born and raised in that part of Canada visible on a clear day from the top of the CN Tower. Second, Weinberg's thoughts on the subject (and those of MIT's Weizenbaum) have been around for some time now. (In fact, the Mop and Pail reprinted a circa-January article on the subject from the Vancouver Sun). They haven't improved with age. How many of us in net.land have actually met or heard of a computer addict? I've pulled my share of all-nighters, and so have the vast majority of the people I know in this fool business - but I know of no one who ever did it for any other reason than that his assignment, project or contract was due the following morning. The youngster in the story might have been a computer addict - but, alarmist professors and reporters aside, don't we all find it somewhat more reasonable to assume that he was just desperate?