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'Inventor of Email' Gets Support of Noam Chomsky
Ian Lamont writes "Shiva Ayyadurai, who famously claims to have invented email as a teenager in the 1970s, is back. A statement attributed to Noam Chomsky offers support for Ayyadurai's claim while attacking 'industry insiders' for stating otherwise. The statement reads: 'Given the term email was not used prior to 1978, and there was no intention to emulate "...a full-scale, inter-organizational mail system," as late as December 1977, there is no controversy here, except the one created by industry insiders, who have a vested interest to protect a false branding that BBN is the "inventor of email," which the facts obliterate.'"
Except of course he isn't really known for things he (according to people in his specialty) is actually skilled at. The problem is that he banks on that aclaim from that highly specialized skill to claim a general competence he clearly does not possess. His political writings are of the most dangerous twaddle that only the most vulnerable college student buys into. The sort of thing that leads to revolutions followed closely by mass graves when a critical mass tire of slapping the lies down. So if he is presenting a paper at a conference in his specialty I suppose others in it should probably attend, otherwise it is a good idea to ridicule him.
Democrat delenda est
His political writings are of the most dangerous twaddle
Dangerous twaddle? Do ideas frighten you?
It's on America's tortured brow, That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
The person I was replying to was trying to paint Noam Chomksy as a crackpot and unqualified to offer an opinion on any subject not directly involving linguisitics. I disagree, Kthx.
It is also apparently deeply entrenched conditioning that no one can actually criticize the Fed without someone like yourself going batshit crazy in its defense. Did it ever occur to the Fed might in fact be a bad or at least problematic institution even if its not a conspiracy involving the "Gnomes of Zurich" or the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". Trotting out the fringe conspiracy theories is a convenient way to avoid discussing if the Fed might be broken and a potential threat to America's well being. You kind of prove there MUST be a conspiracy of some kind because no one can mention the Fed without someone like you going off the deep end in its defense.
About all I can say is I hope you live in America and have all your money in U.S. dollars because you will eventually get what you deserve for believing the Fed is your friend. Germans well remember the Weimar Republic and what happens when you print money to get out of a hole.
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