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- From: stef@Apple.COM (Stef Jones)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Financial first-date negotiations
- Message-ID: <75959@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 19:25:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.164644.1059@walter.bellcore.com> <102842@netnews.upenn.edu> <102845@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Dec22.000021.14160@cs.ucla.edu> <095M03fBc6=w00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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- jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston) writes:
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- >gds@york.cs.ucla.edu (Greg Skinner) writes:
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- >}crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
- >}>Well, I asked around a little bit this weekend on this topic, and
- >}>wasn't able to uncover a single opinion like the ones I'm hearing in
- >}>this group. Most people I talked to -- male and female -- expressed
- >}>some degree of amazement, confirming my theory that this is a
- >}>cross-planetary discussion.
-
- >}Perhaps this is because some of us, instead of accepting traditional
- >}roles, have chosen to question those roles and define roles for
- >}ourselves more to our liking.
-
- >Jeez, do you think you could be just a little more arrogant about this?
- >How about starting up a seminar series to teach us po' fokes, trapped
- >in our miserable, confining, traditional roles, how to properly question
- >and then define our roles in order to become one of the truly enlightened,
- >like yourself?
- [...]
- >Hit him, Lauren. Just haul off and whack the boy upside his head.
-
- Well, if James is going to second for Laura, I'll second for Gregbo. Shall
- it be Uzis at dawn?
-
- Lots of us net folks like questioning assumptions and roles, and enjoy
- being exposed to differing opinions on issues. It seems to me that if
- Laura can imply Gregbo's opinion is from another planet, his correcting
- her with "No, I made it up myself" can hardly be considered an escalation
- of the arrogance level.
- --
- Stef Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and
- stef@apple.com Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of
- Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
- But one can be converted into the other.
- --Spider Robinson
-