Re: And In The U.S., They're Forced To Buy Retail (fwd)

Subject: Re: And In The U.S., They're Forced To Buy Retail (fwd)
From: Stephen Victor <svictor -at- LGC -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 10:16:49 CDT

Is this tripe supposed to be funny? Human rights abuses are all too common for
many people in this world, and I for one don't consider them an appropriate
subject for jokes.

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Landmark Graphics Corporation http://www.cda.ulpgc.es/steve.html
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> A friend of mine sent this to me. I thought it touched on a lot of the
> things we've been discussing before. I apologize if you've all already
> seen this before.

> Karen
> karenk -at- netcom -dot- com
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Forwarded-by: bostic -at- CS -dot- Berkeley -dot- EDU (Keith Bostic)
> > Forwarded-by: cate3 -at- netcom -dot- com
> > From: Mateo -dot- Burtch -at- eng -dot- sun -dot- com (M. Burtch--Specialist in Courier Font)
> >
> > The Society for Technical Communication (STC) released its annual Report
> > on the Status of Technical Writers today. This report, issued by the
> > STC's Writers' Committee on Technical Scribes, monitors the civil and
> > human rights of technical writers throughout the world and documents
> > abuses against them. It also includes a handy quick-reference guide to
> > basic Fortran compiler options.
> >
> > Overall, the report noted that the situation for technical writers the
> > world over is "precarious, and, in many cases, is worsening rapidly. In
> > particular, writers in the Third World routinely live in poverty and
> > squalor." (The report noted that this may apply to other people in the
> > Third World as well.)

<snip>

> > o Worldwide deaths involving courier font have increased 9% over the
> > past two years.
> >
> > o Canada recently passed legislation making the passive voice the
> > national language.
> >
> > o In China's remote Dimsum province, oxen are used in place of
> > technical writers, with no apparent loss of readability.
> >
> > o In North Korea, police departments no longer use electric cattle
> > prods to torture dissidents, replacing them instead with extremely
> > slow and finicky daisy wheel printers.

<snip>


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