On Monday 08 November 2004 15:14, Stede Troisi wrote: > Trying to be overly smart and philisophical doesn't > help either Chris.
What part of my response do you regard as "overly smart and philosophical"? You claimed that someone was "dead wrong", apparently meaning that money was a source of happiness in and of itself. Is that what you meant, or not? You used an unloaded (and unloadable) if to say that things could be different. Well, they could. So what? > > --- Chris Dollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 08 November 2004 14:46, Stede Troisi > > > > wrote: > > > > No, Ron is right. It isn't about the money - it > > > > is > > > > > > about the family. > > > > Money is only a tool that can be used to help > > > > achieve happiness, not an > > > > actual source of happiness in and of itself. > > > > > > Actually, you are dead wrong. > > > > About what? About money not being a source of > > happiness > > in and of itself? I hardly think so. > > > > > You can rant all you > > > want philisophically (I don't disagree) but if a > > > > law > > > > > tomorrow banned any money to be received from > > > programming there would be no XP and the programs > > > > we > > > > > would have would be far different. > > > > And if a law tommorow banned speaking in any dalect > > of > > English, our communication would be far different. > > And if > > it banned multi-storey buildings, our offices would > > be > > much different. Well, but, so what? Unloadable ifs > > don't > > forward discussion. > > > > -- > > Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin > > > > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- Chris "electric hedgehog" Dollin To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
