Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!merlyn From: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian Summary: replace "Russian" with "Competitor" Message-ID: <3237@mipos3.intel.com> Date: 28 Nov 88 17:51:50 GMT References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <2338@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: news@mipos3.intel.com Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.biin.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) Organization: Stonehenge; netaccess via BiiN, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA Lines: 35 In-reply-to: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Note-to-Crunch: pass this along to our friends abroad, if you wish In article <2338@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: | However, I remain unconviced that | help to someone I don't know in the Soviet Union is in my long term self | interest or national interest. | | I really do like helping people with technical problems. But how can | I be certain that the help I give will not be used against me someday? Replace the "someone I don't know in the Soviet Union" with "someone I don't know at {DEC,HP,Intel,Tandem,IBM...}". Same argument applies. Don't tell me that economic freedom is any different than political freedom... there are millions of people right here in the good-old U.S. of A. that are prisoners of economic circumstances, and living a life comparable or worse than the average Soviet citizen. (Heck, even as a successful small business owner, I'm beginning to wonder about the American system...) Maybe I'm an optimist, but someone once told me that you can't hate anyone you truely know. I've found lots of evidence for that. People that state otherwise must not have tested the waters. And, how come this is in comp.misc, and not talk.political.whatever? Oh well. Actually, I vote for *not* sending them USENET. The resulting death of productivity (from time spent reading USENET) at such a crucial stage in Soviet technological development would be sufficient motiviation to launch a first strike. :-) :-) :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 on contract to BiiN Technical Information Services (for now :-), in a former Intel building in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.or ...!tektronix!inteloa[!intelob]!merlyn SOME MAILERS REQUIRE GRRRRR! Standard disclaimer: I *am* my employer!