End of What the heck?


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End of What the heck?



On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 damienden@AOL.COM wrote:

> I tried to ignore it and just let the group deal with it, but I've changed
> my mind...

Simply put damienden, thank you.  You've hit the nail on the head.  Now
let's get back to real discussions.

        -- JBD

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> recipients, of porn-- on a calculator, no less.  I don't know if the
> graphics were bad or not; I certainly didn't make any efforts to view it
> or even decode it.  But the idea is significantly lacking.  We've already
> stretched the usage of these calculators to include heaving gaming; any
> movies at all are a nice advancement.  But to have the movie be
> pornography is more disgraceful than anything else.  Is this what we have
> to show to our teachers as our newest development?  To our parents as
> something new we learned to do on the calculator?  I don't know about the
> other four hundred people receiving this, but personally I'd prefer to
> have something I could show people, teachers and parents included.
> Something that isn't illegal (noting that a large portion of the people in
> this group are -very- likely to be underage highschool students), or
> dirty, or anything of the type.
> 3: Then again, people have different interests.  If someone wanted to take
> the time to program a movie into his/her calculator, I admire his/her(for
> the few females we have with us) abilities.  And I encourage the
> development and usage of said abilities.  But I don't want it.  I don't
> want it in my mailbox, and I'm probably not the only one.  I respect your
> programming and wish to disperse copies of the program.  To be as fair as
> possible, I request then that future such programs are put on the internet
> somewhere.  Tell people where it is and what it is, even throw in a
> counter so you know how many people are getting it!
> But please, consider this (the above) when planning to post such.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Oh, and points for antirush (the*guy*without*a*real*address); I agree: The
> responses to the post didn't have to be at all graphic or explicit,
> especially with the point you're trying to get across.
>


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