On Friday 08 December 2006 05:21, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >>>>> "JE" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JE> On Dec 8 2006 02:04, Joachim Schrod wrote: > >> To quote Jon Postel in RFC 761, the TCP definition from Januay 1980, > >> the last two lines on page 12: > >> > >> be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from > >> others. > >> > >> Words to keep in mind, they served us well in more than 25 years -- > >> RIP Jon Postel. > > JE> You know where this RFC attitude brought us - Web browsers accepting > JE> broken HTML, resulting in sloppy non-standard pages that display in > JE> less than average of the browsers. > > And, so what? It made the Internet usable for millions of users. And, > for the record, I think that's a Good Thing(tm). I'm again that > elitism that would have prevented my mother, aged 71, to be able to > learn sending emails and surfing the Net three years ago when she > retired. She will never understand that there's a difference between a > Web browser and a Mail client, that's completely blurred to her, it's > all `that Internet thingy' -- but so what? Who cares, as long as she > can communicate with her relatives?
So it's better to just hop out to the computer store and get an old person a $600 phone (re computer)? My mom's 68, and she pays attention to what I explain about something like this and then corrects her behavior. She doesn't want to just have a $600 phone, she also wants to do many other things with a computer...and does! All you're perpetuating is laziness, stupidity and sloppiness, by telling anyone who has the money to just 'go get a computer and screw how things are and should be done, just do whatever the hell you want and be a grinning happy idiot'. -- Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker', is like calling a home intruder an 'unwanted houseguest'. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
