copy yourself ?

Sean Charles bibbers at onetel.net.uk
Fri May 23 10:30:21 UTC 2003


On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 12:57 AM, jan ziak wrote:

> another enjoying text you have written below. but, you have to make a
> decission: either you will understand each word as such, unconnected and
> meaningless, or you will try to understand the text in the same way as 
> other
> people on this list do. you choose.
So when was it made illegal to have a bit of fun no and then?

>
> if you choose to consider the words as such, then do not write to this
> mailing list anymore because you cannot help me, them nor you.
>

Why should I not use this list if I cannot help you? It's not your list. 
It was here before you found it. How do you know I cannot help 'them'. 
That is a value judgment on your part. Unsafe at the best of times. Value 
judgments that is! Between us and them, we may have helped somebody attain 
enlightenment in the course of our discourse. Surely that is worth it, to 
the enlightened recipient anyway?!

I smell an unsound footing?!!?!?

>>> wouldn't it be more rational to have objects capable of constructing
>>> copies
>>> of objects?
>>
>> And what you you do if you wanted to copy *one of those object
>> copying classes* then? Where do you stop creating things to copy
>> things to copy things to copy things....
>
Where do you draw the line on this then?

Sean.



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