From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:50:20 +0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Londinium [RANT]
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Duncan Frissell wrote:
> So a few days in Londinium for the Internet Show at the Aggie (now the
> Business Design Centre) in the People's Republic of Islington.
> While I was in town, Tony Blair's voicemail was hacked (it wasn't me)
> and we discovered that he is a politician trying to fool the voters.
> Also, a public domain game called "Schoolyard Slaughter" written for
> an obsolete computer system and awarding points for head shots to
> children was attacked in the press.  It was distributed on shareware
> disks and CDs and not on the dreaded Net but they talked about the net
> in any case.
> The interesting thing about "Schoolyard Slaughter" is that similar
> games involving adult males and aliens ("Doom" par example) have been
> around for a long time.  The lesser controversy surrounding games like
> Doom suggests that the commentators (and perhaps the public) are
> guilty of speciesism, ageism, and gender bias.  After all, the
> fictional slaughter of adult males and aliens should be just as bad as
> the fictional slaughter of children.

Really?  You mean *all* of us people could "come together" (like the 
media says so much) and give up all of our sacred cows at once?

I suggest to you that certain sacred cows will NEVER be given up, until 
there is no longer any "milk" in those particular cows.

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