FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: Alternate browser usages

["Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:12:49 -0600 (CST), Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Hey Wiz,
> Anybody who uses Linux seriously, would not use a
> DOS based version. Zipslack is especially made for
> people who use windo$e, so it is assumed that they
> have windo$e already going.

Hmmm...maybe the people putting out zipslack don't know that there are
other ways of using DOS than running windoze... maybe.....

> limitations for a modern world. But then there are
> farmers who still farm with a water buffalo pulling
> a wooden single bottom plow, and are just fine withit,
> but around here, a fourwheeldrive John Deere pulling
> a twentysome bottom plow is more to these farmers
> likeing. But again somewhere in the world there's a
> farmer that loves his water buffalo.

Hmmm... the benefits of using water buffalo are several:

1. they are initially cheap to purchase.
2. if you get one of each model, they will produce a replacement unit
   every couple of years, at no cost to the owner.
3. they are fueled on the natural waste of the farm.
4. their exhaust is naturally nutricious to the growing crops.

And comparing the cost of producing the end products, a bowl of rice on
the table from a crop grown by "primitive" means represents one Calorie
of energy for each 1/10 Calorie expended in producing it.

A loaf of bread produced from wheat grown the Western way, by the time
it reaches the table represents one Calorie of energy for about 30
Calories expended to produce it.

I wonder... who is so stupid?



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