On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote:
>> It's like putting antibiotics into chicken feed. It might temporarily
>> decrease the spread of certain types of bacteria in improperly cooked
>> food, but in the long run, the bacteria develop resistance, and then
>> we're back where we're started.
>
> This is a totally inaccurate analogy. Misuse/overuse of antibiotics in
> veterinary settings can result in human infection with antibiotic resistant
> bacteria. Comparing human (or even animal) death to computer crashes is
> totally absurd.
Oh, get a grip. The *analogy* works. It is comparing *methods*, not
*severity*. Nobody is suggesting crashed computers are the same as dead
people!
(I hate people who argue against the analogy while missing the point of it
in the first place....)
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