jpm@bnl.UUCP (John McNamee) (03/14/84)
The following is forwarded from CompuServe for the general
amusement of Usenet hackers...
#: 18039 Sec. 0 - General Interest
Sb: HLA Membership opened
12-Mar-84 21:56:17
Fm: Cruftware/jeffreyb 73105,532
To: all
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* Official Membership Card *
* for the *
* Hackers Liberation Army *
* *
* This card entitles the bearer to engage in a lifetime *
* of doing things that are impossible to do on a micro- *
* computer. *
* *
* I, the undersigned, do hereby pledge my services to the *
* betterment of mankind by working to free the world from *
* "user friendly" software that makes people "computer *
* literate" and promise to speak only in so-called *
* "computerese" whenever around "real" people. I also *
* pledge my help in making the world safe for a small *
* computer to grow up to be anything it wants to be, *
* without fear of being forced to run Lotus 1-2-3 or *
* d-Base II endlessly for mindless secretary-types who *
* work for even more mindless management-types. *
* *
* LONG LIVE __________________________________________ ! *
* (insert favorite user-hostile language here) *
* *
* Signed _______________________________________________ *
* *
* Dated this _______ day of _____________, 19_______ *
* *
* If found in the hands of anyone whose actions would de- *
* fame the true meaning of "hacker", this card will auto- *
* matically throw itself into the nearest bit-bucket. *
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