At 02:21 PM 01/01/2000 -0500, Joseph Sterlynne wrote:
>But social facts, whether we like or care about them or not, still affect
us.
>So it's fine that to the general public "hacker" now means "cracker",
despite
>the resistance to that usage by many hackers themselves. It's fine that
"free
>software" can have nothing to do with source code. It's fine that enough
>Luddite activists can impede work in genengineering or cloning. It's fine
>that evolution is "just a theory" and therefore ignorable, at least in some
>U.S. school systems. It's fine that certain facts can change if enough
>newsmedia, money, uninformed banter, advertisements, corporations,
activists,
>or governments want it to. "What's the use?" The use is to exercise and
>maintain rational, critical thought.
IAN: Fantastic commentary!! It's like Flight 800,
while the official radar data shows that the plane
was falling when the CIA says it was shooting upwards
looking like a rocket to witnesses, people just ignore
the physical reality captured by the radar and accept
the physics-violating claims of the CIA; after all,
how could dozens of witnesses, radar, and physics
be correct and unknown CIA analysts be wrong?!
Impossible! http://flight800.org/radar3.htm
http://airtravel.about.com/travel/airtravel/library/weekly/aa071699.htm?pid=
4537&cob=home
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