Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > --snip--
> > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think
> > > > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were
> > > > 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next
> > > > 45 years.
> > >
> > > Familiar with the theory of (I might be off on the numbers) a million
> > > monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years? Maybe with
> > > enough people, there will be enough of us "maturing" to achieve critical
> > > mass? Or we're all completely off and have no idea what will actually
> > > happen. :) (I'd put my money on the latter. :)
> >
> > I recently discovered a couple of great sites:
> >
> > http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-tradition.html
> > http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#antiquitatem
> >
> > This one sounds like "Argumentum ad antiquitatem", or the "that's the
> > way it's always been" fallacy. Or, as they say in the Stock Market:
> > "past performance does not predict future results" :-)
>
> Are you referring to my post or the one I was replying to? I checked the
> two links that you provided and, assuming you were, in fact, referring
> to my post, I don't quite follow the logic I'm afraid. If that was the
> case, could you elaborate please?
The one you replying too, I'd already deleted Ron's post. Shoulda
snipped.
All this talk about drugs has got me missing the good old days. I'm
reading Brave New World, which apparently came out this year on Project
Gutenburg. Good old Soma :-)
I tell ya, if you've never had a dogbone or a football and a joint and a
cup of coffee on fine spring morning, you don't know what you're missing
:-) But now I've got to be all *good* Dammit
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