Amen Harvey!
I have a quote from you on my "lead free protest wall" that sums it up
pretty well: 

"the enormous diversion from real work for no good purpose."
Thanks Harvey for your perspective and your voice.

Sheri Harris

-----Original Message-----
From: EnviroNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Harvey Miller
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [EN] Al Gore is coming to San Jose..


Gordon

I hadn't thought of raising an issue so off-topic from the floor.  Your
cautions nevertheless do suggest need for preparatory measures.

I will contact his advance people seeking an interview for a story in
ChipScale Review and will genuinely make reporting his talk my main
charter.  But lead-free fits his topic, off line.  I believe that its
main cost to society has been the waste of so many talented engineers'
time trying so hard in a futile effort to make lead-free solder "work".
No-one can measure the huge opportunity cost of this tragic episode.

Harvey Miller


--- "Davy, Gordon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Harvey,
> 
> I wish you well in your attempt to confront Mr. Gore, but you should 
> consider the reports given in the past few days by Tim McGrady and 
> others of the reception environmental activists give to notions 
> contrary to their dogma. Even though Mr. Gore's talk is for engineers,

> given that it is being held in the Civic Auditorium in the heart of 
> environmental activist (demagogue) territory, I predict that there 
> will be plenty of non-engineers in the audience.
> 
> I was a student at Berkeley during most of the 1960's and so had a 
> ringside seat to watch and learn how activists operate. Alexander 
> Solzhenitsyn was once booed off the stage while he attempted to 
> deliver an invited speech at Harvard because the students didn't care 
> much for his academic freedom. I don't think he was ever invited back.

> And speaking of Harvard, recall the fate of the president when he 
> violated feminist orthodoxy.
> 
> Assuming you are even given a chance to address Mr. Gore, I predict 
> that you will be shouted down before you manage to get out more than a

> couple of sentences, and that he will not intervene to stop the 
> violation of your free speech rights - particularly if you question 
> global warming. (I regard the threat of a global reign of terror by 
> demagogues as far greater than the threat of global warming.)
> 
> I would not have the courage to attempt what you say you intend to do,

> including handing Mr. Gore a book. You may want to bring along some 
> sympathetic EnviroNet subscribers as bodyguards, and someone with a 
> video camera (hidden to prevent confiscation or damage). Don't expect 
> that any fracas you get into will be reported objectively by the 
> media, but it might make for some interesting viewing on YouTube. Do 
> you know if he will be surrounded by Secret Service agents? I recall 
> hearing some years back that someone once attempted to hand President 
> Clinton an aborted fetus, and ended up in jail.
> 
> This is exciting! Please promise to report how it goes.
> 
>  
> 
> Gordon Davy
>