On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 07:28:47PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> Oh. So by definition, if we feel this is something useful, we're by
> definition mindless.
I've said no such thing. Please do not deliberately misquote me.
> Go live with your 1980's technology, Rich, and complain about all of
> us who are off inventing the future how much better it was in the
> good old days.
Oh, don't give me this line of crap. I've been here just as long as you
have, and just like you, I've done my little bit here and there to
push things along. And I still am.
However, I don't feel that just because something *can* be done
that it necessarily follows that it *should* be done. I don't consider
thoughtlessly using technology without regard for its appropriateness
or for its side-effects "inventing the future"; I consider it careless
and irresponsible, and sometimes pointless.
So if the fact that I actually want to ask questions like "why should
we support this?" and "can we support this?" and "what is it good for?"
and "Is what we get by using it worth what it costs us?" and so on...and
that I expect to get answers *other* than "because we can", "we like it",
and "if you don't, you're stuck in the 80's" makes me one of the lava lamp
set IYHO, then fine, so be it.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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