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nicholas (3034)
Friday October 24, 2003
09:41 AM
Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails
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It must be true - the BBC said so
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And the BBC said...... (Score:2)
I once had an argument with some minion of the BBC who claimed that you had to have a modem to connect to the Internet. I pointed out that most people at that time on the Internet were on academic networks with no modems in site, and that only a tiny percentage of uses actually used a modem at home (which was true). The minion got all "high and mighty" and told me that telling people that they didn't need a modem to connect to the Internet would only confuse them.
Since that discussion, many people have go
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Re:And the BBC said...... (Score:2)
Oh well. Maybe it's time to switch our loyalty to Aljazeera [aljazeera.net] or Pravda [pravda.ru]