From: travel23@juno.com (The Traveler)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:17:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: US Senate bans laptops
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
>
>According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US
>Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to
bring
>his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that
>laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates.

>These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who
>will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses.

>Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted.


Yeah, but if they did allow it, our tax money would go to buying a laptop
for each and everyone of them - and, of course, they would opt for the
most expensive laptops available.....


The Traveler


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