Re: Usenet

On Jul 11, 4:13 am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Technology rarely dies completely: newspapers, telegraph networks, horse and
buggy. You still see horse and buggy at every tourist spot. Old telegraph
networks are used to send other data (i.e., wire transfers). And, even
though .pdf's and websites have basically made books and newspapers
"obsolete" it's still a very large and competitive business (see Rupert
Murdoch).

Print will never be obsolete. Especially books. No amount of
techlogical advancement will ever be able to replace -- mimic -- a
book completely.

The problem is similar to how these "global warming" idiots think they
can negate the need for oil simply by finding a good "fuel" substitute
-- they always forget that petroleum is use for many more things than
just a power source. They suggest using hydrogen fuel-cells -- but
what idiot is going to want one of those heavy suckers running their
weed-eater or chainsaw?? A two-cycle gas-powered internal-combustion
engine is _the perfect_ tool for the task... no ifs ands or buts
about it! Nothing can replace it, period. Also, hydrogen can't
lubricate the transmission gears... furthermore, you don't make
plastic out of hydrogen. Hydrogen simply cannot replace petroleum --
the perfect resource! When the oil does 'run out', we will simply
convert coal into oil. And when that runs out, we will be mining
fozzil fuels from space. People just have to get it through their
thick skulls that *some* things are always going to be with us. Books
will stay. Petroleum will always be central to our economy. Any
dream of easy replacements is just a pipe-dream.


It's kind of like the reverse situation of Dungeon and Dragons in America.
Someone here was recently trying to figure out what 1d20 is. If you ask
someone over 40, or slightly younger, in America, very few, if any will know
what multi-sided dice are. They were born too early for D&D.

Oh, that reminds me.... there *can* be a three-sided die. You can
use 3 triangles to create a 3-sided object... there is a name for it
but it slips my mind....

Nathan.

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