Wirt Atmar wrote:

>I originally thought that the reference above to Dr. Richard Paley's webite
>at:
>
>    http://objectiveministries.tripod.com/propaganda.html
>
>would be a joke, possibly some sort of take-off on Dr. William Paley, the
>theological philosopher who first made the case for an Intelligent Designer.
>But, unfortunately, it's not. This Latter-Day Paley is a devout believer that
>all users of Macintoshes are tools of the Devil, but what the heck, a lot of
>us have said that :-).

Needless to say, this made the Macintosh rounds months ago. Here's a link
to a more complete quote, which tallies (so far as I can tell) with what
I read on the original site. I think I saved the whole thing on my
machine at home, but this is the most complete version I've found on the
Internet.

  <http://www.botwerks.org/pipermail/dorks/2002-April/000036.html>

Great fun, in a pathetic sort of way. But it's a useful reminder of how
Clarke's Law can have distressing consequences. Computers can do
anything, and the Internet knows everything, and it's all magic and
dangerous and mysterious.

-- Bruce


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