Re: Graphic converter query - transparency

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

So the people who have said that sort of thing to me are made up too?
Presumably I imagined working on a factory floor during university
holidays with people who said exactly that. I was once ridiculed for
reading a book.


> > 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.

Ah, you're qualifying your statements now.

 
> 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.

I never said it wasn't.

 
        -zoara-



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