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  4. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  5. Subject: Re: our plutonium economy & a free democracy are a contradiction in terms
  6. In-Reply-To: dave@ratmandu.esd.sgi.com's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:33:50 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan22100338@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  9. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  10. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  11. References: <1993Jan22.153350.5415@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  12. Date: 22 Jan 93 10:03:38
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  15. The number of people who have been inconvenienced by U.S. Government
  16. protection of plutonium from theft is far less that the number
  17. inconvenienced by U.S. Government efforts to protect the President
  18. from assassination.
  19.  
  20. My only inconvenience on this score has been that I have to stay
  21. in unclassified areas when I visit LLNL.  Big deal!  Some people
  22. exaggerate to the point of being silly.
  23.  
  24. --
  25. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  27. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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