Bob Bemer Has Bugged Out

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seen today on gary north site. he has a link to a rather long washington post article. they interviewed bob bemer and found out he has moved out of the big city to the boonies, for 2 reasons: a) the inventor of ASCII is concerned he may be the subject of retribution. b) he thinks it will be bad.

i wonder how THEY can possibly put a positive spin on this?

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), July 19, 1999

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Jocelyne:

Blame it on advancing age and eccentricity, for one.

-- Jon Williamson (jwilliamson003@sprintmail.com), July 19, 1999.


There are already two other threads on this subject.

-- please look (before@posting.net), July 19, 1999.

This won't come under the "positive spin" process. It'll come under the "another loony" process. If they can't put happy faces on information then they'll discredit it. Just being included in North's site is discrediting enough for some people.

I don't see how this guy's bugging out will be news enough for anyone to worry about discrediting though. 99% of the country likely doesn't know the name, and the few who would might not attribute a great deal to his opinion. So he invented ASCII - so what? Inventing something and extrapolating on the societal consequences resulting from a central flaw within it are two separate things.

Any urbanites on this forum that are considering moving out and who might give weight to Bob's moving?

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), July 19, 1999.


Actually there is a good reason you won't see any "positive spin" on this. There isn't any reason.

No, the only spin you'll see it that of the Doomer Cult spinning it like a sighting of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Oh MY GOD! Someone doesn't want to live in the city anymore... and, and.. HE'S A PROGRAMMER!!!!

More rice, more bottled water, more beans! I've got to prepare, prepare, PREPARE!!! Y2K SAVE US from our silly human selves!!

wahhhaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

{sniff sniff}

-- (doomers@suck.com), July 19, 1999.


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