[newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...
Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: Without positive loop feedback it can rapidly become a Cyberbog. It is going that way... please read this a.s.a.p. http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html Everything needs a positive feedback loop, from teaching children good behaviour, to the Sydney Opera House - a project which had no control by feedback. It was projected to cost $1-1.5 Million Dollars. Now we all know that such things will over-run. but it finished up costing the community $105 MILLION a HUNDRED times as much! Because there was no feedback control - it had no limits. It was funded by a Lottery! Thus, there was no upper limit on what could be spent. It was insane - worse, it finished up being project-managed by a committee and it ended up useless as a true Opera House. Cheers? John --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.344 / Virus Database: 191 - Release Date: 2/04/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[OT] Re: [newbie] very scary stuff. Your rights ARE vanishing - being assasinated...
On Saturday 06 April 2002 00:22, john rigby wrote: Hello folks, This is not off-topic! This is a probable reason that we are all having more and more email problems. Well strictly speaking it _is_ off topic. Off topic doesn't mean useless or completely irrelevant (obviously that shouldn't be posted at all); it means anything which the poster thinks will be of interest to at least some members, but is unrelated, or only tenously related to the topic of the list. AFAIK, the email problems we've been having are not related to filters (I've had some, and I'm not with a commercial ISP or free webmail service). And now for my own off-topic comment ... One of my fears about the development of the fabulous tool we call the Internet is the prediction made by Kilneth nearly a decade ago: Without positive loop feedback it can rapidly become a Cyberbog. It is going that way... please read this a.s.a.p. http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html Everything needs a positive feedback loop, from teaching children good behaviour, to the Sydney Opera House - a project which had no control by feedback. Call me a pedant, but what you seem to advocating is not a positive feedback loop, but a negative one. Positive feedback is what happens when part of the output is fed back as input, so the signal, motion or behaviour increases. Unless you're a rock guitarist, it's generally a bad thing. Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
