From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 05:32:05 MDT
From: <ManuelOmar@aol.com>
<<How do you wean someone off an addiction that makes Heroine look like Cancy
corn? How you do convince somebody who's half-starved from lying on the floor
of his apartment with a Dreamchip active for 2 days that he should stop, eat
some food, and get back to his life? How do you interdict the BTL industry
when literally anybody with a computer and some electronic expertise can
fiddle with a sensory recording until the signal regulators are broke? >>
It can't be all that bad, Manny. You seem to have been able to tear yourself
away from "BTL" long enough to complain about it. So people like to play games
more than they like to do constructive things. Nothing new there, except now
they have better games. If they can afford to devote large amounts of time to
it, no problem. If they can't afford to, but do it anyway, reality will
eventually exact the price for this irresponsible behavior. It always does.
Economic necessity is the best form of interdiction.
τΏτ
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism
Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
(Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:06:58 MST