Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

["David Palmer." <davidpalmer@westnet.com.au>]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:23:51 +0800
csj <csj@zapo.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:54 -0600,
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:31, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> > > On Friday 14 November 2003 3:48 pm, David Palmer. wrote:
> > [snip very good points]
> > > 
> > > > The modern 'educational' process is there to teach people
> > > > how to read just well enough so that they no longer need to
> > > > think.
> > > 
> > > The modern educational process should teach people not to
> > > think what have been thought by others before, but to
> > > concentrate on new problems.  It's what some call progress.
> > 
> > People still should think about "what have been thought by
> > others before", because what has been thought before might be
> > wrong.
> 
> Yes.  Imagine the consequences of someone figuring out we can
> actually accelerate beyond the speed of light.
> 
> 
They have.
They have also stopped it.
If you are interested, it might take me a while because it was a subect
I was dealing with some time ago, but I could chase up some references.
Regards,

David.