For myself, I'd point out these other significant omissions:
It does not mention the "FTC sponsored Web site
(www.consumer.com)
where people can learn how to preserve their privacy, prohibit
companies from
using their credit records...[etc.]"
[-quotation from
p. 106 of PC World magazine, September 1998 issue.]
- Nor does it mention the Gettysburg Address
or the
Declaration of Independence (-?).
Nor does it mention the F.B.I. Nor does it mention C.B.S.,
T.B.S., A.B.C., nor FoxB.S.
Nor (take a deep breath):
Nuclear weapons, S.T.A.R.T., S.A.L.T., fallout, genocide, the rights of surrogate
mothers, abortion, shaving cream, terrorism, rape, incest, the Rocky
Mountain
locust plagues, 'spam', dental insurance, WWII-style 'flight jackets',
toothpaste, cake with thick vanilla frosting, Love-Canal-type scenarios,
waltzes, late-night TV commercials, Count Dracula, PCs, brain
transplants,
sui-genericide*, the Klingon Empire, drunk drivers who murder by
'accident',
Marxist Communism, farting, being a chatterbox, 'Jim Crow' laws, table
manners, 'Geico-style' courteous driving, stop signs, traffic lights,
the
lowest grade you got in the 3rd grade, information overload, back-fence
gossiping, Boss Tweed, juvenile delinquency, your next yard sale, going
to the
moon.
Nor Dutch Apple pie. Nor
Yosemite, nor
John Muir, nor Hawk Mountain in Pennsylvania, nor Baxter State Park in
Maine.
Nor spelling bees. Nor lipstick, perfume,
your first
car and the way the breeze felt when you got it going down your
favorite road
on a warm day.
Nor those beautiful books you discovered and
read,
from the children's room in the library before you were 10 years old .
. .
" '...You were never told not to get him drunk. You were never told not to shave him bald. You were never told not to skewer him with a fine-edged Tav curve. ...' "