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[Steelhead]

>Right on! Every time I walk down by the old mill-stream, I look at that
>overshot water wheel and see Carolingian imperialism at work: mass
>conversions of Saxons under the sword, the whole nine yards.

I have no innate longing for the middle ages, despite a peculiar fondness
for Monty Python movies of the period and the poetry of Boethius, Chacuer,
and an occasional Breton Lay or two, if you know what I mean.

>And windmills: well, old Frans killing off the dodos wasn't the half of
>it: there was all that Dutch imperialism in the East Indies, not to
>mention the Manahatta rip-off.

Norbert's the fan of the Dutch, not me.

>Coal? The Dales, black lung, strip mining. Hydro? Glen Canyon, salmon
>kills, silting, yada yada yada.

When I check out, Glen Canyon dam goes with me. I swear to god.

>Was Wiener's vision narrowed by the Burnhamite perspectives of his time?
>No doubt.

The question was rhetorical, then?

>Is yours narrowed by the compulsion to re-discover that They Lie To Us?

They? *Us?* You're the one broadcasting messages from "corporate
communciations." Are you saying you lie for a living, Monte?

>Are you open to the possibility that any application of nuclear power in
>any way, at any time, might be preferable to alternatives?

No, I'm not. Definitive enough for you?

>Are you sufficiently careful about the potential corruption of using
>computers, their microelectronics, and the Internet -- tainted as they
>all are by their hot and Cold War origins?

No, I'm not.

>I'm not arguing for value-free technology, but I find it hard to buy
>into your version of original sin.

No one asked you to, that might cost you your job. And the referenced sin
was far from original.

Steelhead