Re[2]: Mz-S: Two Thumbs Up!

2001-07-22 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, The rather quaint notion that you buy something once and never buy a similar device for the rest of you life arose out of 19th century and prior technology where things just plain didn't change fast enough to warrant being replaced in one lifetime. That logic was obsolete in the

Re: Re[2]: Mz-S: Two Thumbs Up!

2001-07-22 Thread Bob Blakely
In eons past, ancient forests fell and were gathered together and covered by waters and with silt by the waters. As the ages passed, the silt became stone, the waters abated, and new vegetation covered a new land. Finally, in this new age, we've drilled down into those ancient forests and now

Re[2]: Mz-S: Two Thumbs Up!

2001-07-22 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, Romans, Mayans, Incas, Egyptians, [...]. The economies of those societies were fueled by forceably stealing resources from neighboring peoples, enslaving them, and forcing the majority to attend to every whim of the minority. Same thing applies here and now. They operated at a