US Senate bans laptops
The Traveler
travel23 at juno.com
Sun Sep 21 09:17:08 PDT 1997
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
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