[Vision2020] On behalf of sanity . . .

[Tom Hansen]

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

- George Washington

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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 


On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> On 9/17/2013 8:31 AM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
>> I never found registering a car that difficult.  Anyway, yes.  If it wasn't for our forefathers, we'd be speaking English right now.
> 
> After wondering how this might be true, I came to the conclusion that if our forefathers had not invented letter writing, postal services, telegraphs, Morse code, teletypes, telephones, radios, televisions, computers, software, networks, and the Internet with service providers and mailing lists, not to mention a plethora of wireless devices, we would have to be face-to-face speaking with one another.
> 
> The serious inconvenience of that might allow more work to get done.
> 
> That's right -- those darn forefathers -- inhibiting manual work-day productivity with more creative uses for all of this technology.
> 
> And what's more -- if they hadn't been so quick to deliver the news way back then, they would have had time to translate it into German and French and maybe even Spanish, if enough polyglots wanted to make the effort to speak all that news in other peoples' mother tongues.
> 
> So, you're right, we could be speaking more English, and other languages, too, if it wasn't for our forefathers.
> 
> 
> Ken
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