Thanks. How refreshingly sapient. Such sober reflection -- brings us all
back down to earth. At last we've found an archetypical user to inhabit
the profile: note well. You don't know what we're talking about, but you
have an opinion of it anyway -- and you need to tell us. Look, Marv:
details do matter. Maybe not to you, but to people who think about the
future, who have a hand in it, who want to make a mark. You may be content
to take whatever you get, but frankly -- I'd rather shape the software.
If we were discussing the Constitution, would hot opinions be permissible?
I submit that these *are* philosophical matters. "Without Opposition is No
Progression," said William Blake. But I don't need to tell you that,
you're a writer.
I don't operate in Annie's world, yet to me its obvious that she knows
whereof she speaks, that she's thought deeply and seriously, and that the
issues you're "replying" to affect her profession generally and her own
work. What's more, she actually expresses *ideas*! They're just pouring
out. It's possible to learn from somebody like that. If you're
interested. But when details don't matter to you, why not just delete the
message and pass on quietly?
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Robert J. Holmgren
holmgrn@ibm.net
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