On 6/14/05, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, you are dealing in stereotypes.
As does everyone else. Stereotypes are often (but not always) a handy way of quickly processing information. Humans are not wired to consider every little snowflake that falls. > It's sort of like asking if the Farmer's Market is one of those > "hippie gatherings" > you could say that, but you'd be missing the point, yes many people at > the farmers market are hippies (or would get labeled as such) but the > point is that there are fresh veggies for sale. But on the other hand, you can probably guarantee that you'll experience the following: the stink of patchouli, body odor, pot smoke, and panhandlers on the periphery. So one wouldn't be missing the point, because they obviously know there were fresh veggies there. What you are suggesting in your illustration is that one ignore the Patchouli Point(tm) for the sake of fresh veggies. > Besides, most of the people on this list now think you are in deep denial... > ;-) They're just stereotyping ;) . They assume that because one likes UNIX and that one likes to hack, they're immediately a "geek". your elitist, /per _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
