begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:39:37PM -0800: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:21:27 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Er... With what? Your assertion that some monocultures are good? No. > > > > That you have something that approaches a counterexample? No. > > Ooh. Harsh.
Sorry. :-/ > Except I can see why you'd say that. My point was that > I don't believe every situation in which one finds a "monoculture" is > a bad situation. (Or "sucks", in your phrasing.) The only examples I > can think of can be easily hair-splitted either way, and, to tell the > truth, hair-splitting doesn't interest me at the moment. Oh, my viewpoint has more to do with the long run and the overall picture. I can see that in selected short-term situations, a monoculture can be the most pleasant of circumstances. Especially if your way is the dominant way. . . but that's the most dangerous position to be in. -Stewart "'As I would not be a slave, so I shall not be a master.'" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
