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Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:22:38 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ...
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> Don't get me wrong, as much as I seem like an ass at times, I'm a
> fairly nice guy too. I enjoy helping my friends and family. There
> are times, though, when it would be nice to have my knowledge be a
> secret. :)
That strikes me as a very typical statement for a lot of computer people.
I'm still trying to decide why. Perhaps it's because computers break down
so often, compared to cars. Perhaps people think they shouldn't have to pay
to get a computer fixed, since it's so small and therefore "simple." I
don't know.
Jesse
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| (...) Computers don't break more often than cars. Computer owners break their computers more often than car owners break their cars. If people did things like whipping into drive from reverse, poured iced tea into their gas tank, drove with their (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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| (...) Maybe it's because fixing a computer tends to be an investment in arcane abstract knowledge, rather than concrete physical knowledge. Compute repair = several hours of tweaking settings and reading doc files. Car repair = several hours of (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Sometimes I hold onto those opinions that are counter to other peoples' longer just for fun. :) (...) Well, if it were something like helping me replace a tail light I could see that, but I didn't really just mean a one time or rare ocurrance (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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