[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> However, the real dilemma for me is that people who have "formed a view" are
> apparently blind to the fact that many others (on this list for example) do
> not share their view (as the current discussion about which came first cities
> or rural communities shows). Hence, no real discourse takes place - and it
> is virtually impossible for understanding and collaboration to develop.
>
> What we end up with is a series of emailed volleys fired across from fixed
> positions to other fixed positions, most of which land relatively harmlessly
> with respect to people, but probably do damage to the landscape in the
> process.
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Of course I agree with you, but it is perhaps suggestive
(admonitory?) that [at least I believe the following
is correct:] our whole milieu of computing (PCs,
the Internet...) has its origin largely in the advances
made to calculate ballistics tables ca. WW-II. (Yes,
an other part was cryptography, which is also symbolically
apposite.... Decode and destroy....)
\brad mccormick
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