From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sat Dec 08 05:59:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 8 Dec 2001 13:59:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 98787 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2001 13:59:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 8 Dec 2001 13:59:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n33.groups.yahoo.com) (216.115.96.83) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2001 13:59:10 -0000 Received: from [216.115.96.32] by n33.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 08 Dec 2001 13:59:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 13:59:10 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [WWWW] Big update! Message-ID: <9ut6be+kdeb@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1002 X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: "aolung" X-Originating-IP: 149.225.7.150 X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=37407270 X-Yahoo-Profile: aolung --- In lojban@y..., John Cowan wrote: > pycyn@a... scripsit: > > Further, they should be the last people > > to put down the crap that users use, since they were the people who created > > the crap in the first place and who have regularly failed to improve it in > > the ways that they say it should be done. > > Not so. Windows and all its works are made by geeks who have sold themselves > to marketeers. Windows is a Yugo at Cadillac prices. What is more, the Windows > culture is a tyranny, which like all such is supported by the meekness of > its victims. The Yugo failed because people felt more confident rejecting a > piece-of-crap car; Windows has not yet failed because people were > subject to FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt). Hosiannah and Amen! Is it a mass hysteria or just a "whole" world's sheep instinct. It reminds me of other kinds of tyranny (also in my country!): It really is fear, uncertainty, doubt - and kind of mental laziness! mu'omi'e .aulun.