Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

zoara <me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Tim Streater <timstreater@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > >  me18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (zoara) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > > > 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.
> > 
> > I don't see what examples of `no interest in...' have to do with
> > `disliking...'.
> 
> I could have written it as:
> 
> Plenty of people are happy just going down the pub and drinking
> themselves silly every night. They dislike acquiring knowledge ("That's
> ****ing boring mate, shut up and drink"), and that's just an extreme
> example to make a point.

No, it's a made-up example to make a point.

> But anyway, Tim's got a point and I was wrong. People *do* like
> acquiring knowledge; it's just that different people have different
> measures of what's useful knowledge. You consider history to be useful;
> many people don't.

The reason I consider history to be useful knowledge is for the same
reason that everyone else with any education considers it to be useful
knowledge.

You talk as if my opinion on this matter were some kind of deviation
from the norm: it's not, it's the majority opinion amongst educated
people.

A society without history has no past - and no future.  (the correct
ripost to Henry Ford's `History is bunk')

And you can add: `Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past
are condemned to repeat them'.

Rowland.

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