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  1. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: "A Quarter Billion Years" (Greenpeace Press Releases)
  5. In-Reply-To: jjh00@diag.amdahl.com's message of 20 Jan 93 19:21:25 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan21091300@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <1993Jan13.050505.2746@truffula.sj.ca.us> <Jym.19Jan1993.1921@naughty-peahen>
  11.     <29AQ02T133=a01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
  12. Date: 21 Jan 93 09:13:00
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  15. The thing one really needs to understand is the mechanism that provides
  16. the money to amplify the ignorance of someone who is unsure about the
  17. difference between a million and a billion and deliver it to all
  18. Colorado schoolchildren.
  19. --
  20. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  22. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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