On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Lucky Green wrote:
According to an article in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle, the US Senate's Rules Committee denied a junior Senate member's request to
bring
his laptop to the floor. Aparently, the Rules Committee believes that laptop use is incompatible with the hallowed nature of Senate debates.
These people banning laptops amongst their peers are the same people who will decide on the future use of crypto by the masses.
Give it up. Any dollar spent lobbying these Luddites is a dollar wasted.
Yeah, but if they did allow it, our tax money would go to buying a laptop for each and everyone of them - and, of course, they would opt for the most expensive laptops available..... The Traveler +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++