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Math Junkie

01/08/03 3:29 PM

#2409 RE: Math Junkie #2407

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ergo sum

01/08/03 5:34 PM

#2419 RE: Math Junkie #2407

Richard

Well that would be a start.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I keep hoping that this whole braodband mess will eventually mean that I can turn on my TV and actually see what is reported by various parties in various places. Combine that with a little language translation program which is not a cultural translation and just let the people of the world see what they think of each other. I think that would help.
I mean it is like this whole Arab history broadcast over Ramadan. Ok so it is based on the Protecals but I would like to be able to see that for my self. Is it really any more skewed than the stereotypes depicted in our culture? I heard the other day that in the new lord of the rings movie the bad guys wear turbans. When I was a kid I thought that if you lived in Tenn. You wore a coon skin hat and Amerindians were even worse than Germans. I won't tell you what I thought about "I dream of Genie"

But if you grew up in NY area in the 50s you might remember this
"Plunk your little twanner Frogie"
Ergo Sum