Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

In article <1ikh6rm.1qi5gqxprq09nN%me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (zoara) wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Woody <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
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> > > > Curious that anyone should hate history.
> > > 
> > > <shrug> don't see why. People like and dislike all sorts of things.
> > 
> > <shrug> back.
> > 
> > And I don't see how anyone could dislike acquiring useful knowledge.
> 
> Plenty of people are happy just going down the pub and drinking
> themselves silly every night. They have no interest in acquiring
> knowledge, and that's just an extreme example to make a point.

Certainly not what we might call useful knowledge anyway. Knowledge 
about Big Brothers contestants, WAGs, and other non-entities who infest 
hello and OK, yes.

> > Some things - history, mathematics, psychology, physics, economics,
> > sociology, and so on - are all vital to understand to some extent in
> > order to understand society and the world and make reliable plans for
> > the future.  I can't understand how anyone could dislike learning
about
> > anything, let along the vital things that everyone /needs/ to
> > understand.
> 
> There are people who don't feel the need to understand society and
> barely make plans for the next day, never mind 'the future'. Lots of
> people.

Sad but true. Even many intelligent people lack natural curiosity.