Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- Subject: Re: proof of cocoa superiority?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 05:57:39 -0700
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The allegation was one of superiority, not inferiority.
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The implication was that Cocoa is superior, that it derives from
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earlier software (NeXTStep) used for these wonderful purposes,
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and yet the purposes cited are inimical to freedom and respect
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for people. They presume that it is acceptable for private
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companies to track people's personal private communications &
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relationships, and for government agencies (in this case nominally
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a quango) to spy on people (as the USPS has been found to do with
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their recently revealed "Eagle's Eye" program to carefully watch,
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track & report to feral law enforcement agencies, the financial
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transactions of what turns out to be tens of thousands of
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primarily poorer people).
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Now, if you'd said that it had been used to develop something
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beneficial, something positive, something that prevented
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violation of people's rights instead of encouraging it, then
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I'd agree it was probably superior. But your examples
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contradict this.
<sigh>
John, we clearly have different views of the world. When I look at
something to determine if it is a "superior tool", I do not let my decision
be dictated by what uses those who have used the tool have put it in the
past. The screwdriver is a wonderful tool despite the fact that several of
them were used in making the first atomic bomb. Simply put, technology has
no moral status, and technology's worth cannot be measured solely by the
percieved moral qualities of those who have used it.
But, it seems, that you feel it is necessary to turn any comment of mine
into a sounding board for your conspiracy theories, and I don't anticipate
this changing.