I made the previous post. I don't know about other countries, but most people end up in the military here because of economics (now I'm talking about the enlisted (like me) and NCOs, the people who do most of the fighting). It's a class thing really, and usually it pulls its ranks from the poor and disavantaged. It really has nothing to do with 'people who get off on it'...
Ok...I think this has gone on enough, this guy is abusing the posting system here. IP ban may be extreme, but posting here is a privilege, not a right... Stevens was a great author.
I think it's good that people are at least looking to history as they try to grapple with the meaning of the net. I wonder sometimes if it really is 'enlightening' tho. It's so easy to use that it encourages and propagates bad writing, bad code, bad design, bad ideas, bad everything. The Enlightenment inherited better academic traditions than what we have now. Even tho there was a lot of skepticism and questioning of medieval methods, most of the philosophes were still disciplined scholars. Now anyone with an ISP can give their often worthless 2cents. And it shows.
If anything, I would say the net more closely resembles the age of the 'Struggle for Wealth and Empire' than the Enlightenment.
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Thanks Mitch for posting comments _after_ I logged in. Create your account dude!
You're right. I just had to vent. IP Ban would just make things worse. Man just imagine the censorship threads.
I made the previous post. I don't know about other countries, but most people end up in the military here because of economics (now I'm talking about the enlisted (like me) and NCOs, the people who do most of the fighting). It's a class thing really, and usually it pulls its ranks from the poor and disavantaged. It really has nothing to do with 'people who get off on it'...
Ok...I think this has gone on enough, this guy is abusing the posting system here. IP ban may be extreme, but posting here is a privilege, not a right... Stevens was a great author.
The price looks decent until you check out the shipping. On pricewatch they're quoting $10.00. That seems a bit steep to me.
I think it's good that people are at least looking to history as they try to grapple with the meaning of the net. I wonder sometimes if it really is 'enlightening' tho. It's so easy to use that it encourages and propagates bad writing, bad code, bad design, bad ideas, bad everything. The Enlightenment inherited better academic traditions than what we have now. Even tho there was a lot of skepticism and questioning of medieval methods, most of the philosophes were still disciplined scholars. Now anyone with an ISP can give their often worthless 2cents. And it shows.
If anything, I would say the net more closely resembles the age of the 'Struggle for Wealth and Empire' than the Enlightenment.