Hi Rick, I wondered if my terse, snippy little remark might get a counter response. Thanks for clarifying you thoughts on the matter.
Just so you know, I think you do good work, despite my occasional philosophical disagreements I have with some of your opinions and perceptions. To disagree is just a facet life. The initial point I was trying to make is that I'm constantly being barraged with SPAM informing me of the fact that I can get an iPad (or some other hi-tec product) really cheap if I just click on the following link. Most of this stuff is just plain SPAM aka B&LLSH#T! Regardless of whether my original analysis was accurate or not, what you posted initially looked to me like you had done nothing more than perform a cut & past of a SPAM message, and then you posted it on vortex-l. I suspect I wouldn't have retaliated if you had simply added something personal at the beginning, something personally written for which I knew came directly from you (your own fingertips), something to the effect that you discovered what appears to be a very innovative business effort to get technology into the needy hands of the developing world. I think this is a very good idea. Adding something personal would have at least alerted me to the effect that what comes next is something important to you and that you wanted to share it within the Vort Collective. Just a suggestion. I'm sure I will have more conflicts with you in our future! ;-) PS: In our building we have a Tibetan refugee who works down in the scanning department. His grasp of English is slowly getting better. He is in charge of running and operating several $20,000 high volume scanners. He's pretty good at it. He's a cool, philosophical dude. I've enjoyed talking to him about some of his childhood adventures, traveling across the mountains as a small child, escaping from Tibet into India. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
