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Idiots are the people of the future

From: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 06:01:09 -0700
To: Tom Gilder <w3c@tom.me.uk>, www-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <3CE5EE25.10895.3A01191@localhost> 
Tom Gilder remarked on a large vendor's decidedly incorrect behavior 
contrary to various Recommendations and Requests For Comments 
(RFC):

> That would explain why [the vendor's product]
> attempts to render http://tom.me.uk/2002/3/test.zip as
> XML instead of downloading, how incredibly idiotic.

"Idiots are the people of the future."

    [Lars von Trier, "Idioterne" ("The Idiots"), 1998.
     <http://www.imdb.com/Title?015442>]
Received on Saturday, 18 May 2002 09:17:43 GMT

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