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		stcredzero on Dec 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Coming War on General Purpose Computation A decade ago Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) ran a bill that outlawed general purpose computers and made it a federal crime to posses a compiler without a license. Citation needed. Not to be a pain in the 4ss, but because I want to read more about this idiocy!

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