On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Declan McCullagh forwarded from TIME:
... The revolution will not be televised -- at least not in Afghanistan. The Taliban government today banned TV, and gave Afghans 15 days to get rid of all sets and VCRs. After that, if the organization's enforcers find one in your house, it will be destroyed and you will be punished. ...
sounds good to me; I've raised 5 children who know how to _read_. I've never owned a television, never saw the need to bring cancer into the home. TV could have been one of the greatest educational tools in the existence of mankind --and, what is it? nothing more than bread and circus for the mass, a tool for social reoganization and the destruction of the family. babysitter? momma's little helper? not really; a creator of a vast unthinking social wasteland --which, of course, fits the policy goals of Hillay's Global Village where everybody is just another butterscotch pudding to her recipe. __________________________________________________________________________ go not unto usenet for advice, for the inhabitants thereof will say: yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck-off. _________________________________________________________________ attila__