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Author: Joshua Zeidner
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)
btw- if anyone is interested in these topics, feel free to contact
me off list. Theres much more background to these ideas as well as
plans for implementing.

-jmz

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM, keith smith <> wrote:
>
>
> Man you guys should blog all this... do a few trackbacks... pings and put
> some adsense on your sites and take a vacation.
>
> Sorry could not help myself.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Joshua Zeidner <> wrote:
>
> From: Joshua Zeidner <>
> Subject: Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <>
> Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 9:28 PM
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Craig White <> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 21:12 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>> Craig,
>>>
>>>   you're not really disagreeing with me.
>> ----
>> au contrare
>>
>> I disagree with your dismissive attitude, with your lack of interest in
>> the connection of the subject at hand to the progenitor of this thread,
>> with your assertion that people who buy these books are posers and
>> undoubtedly a whole lot more.
>
>   I might have used the term 'non sequitur' but that I thought that
> might exacerbate your hypersensitivity towards just about everything.
>
>>
>> What I can't figure out is how you think you can just toss these things
>> out there as if no one actually is applying critical thinking about that
>> which you write.
>>
>> Maybe it's my age but I love books...I read every day (mostly fiction).
>> I don't see myself ever buying a Kindle or other electronic device to
>> replace ink on paper. Then again, as you say, I like having books around
>> to prop up my cred.
>
>   Well if you don't recognize the moral imperative of preserving
> forests, I might suggest it is you who are guilty of being coarse and
> unreceptive.  Perhaps you can make a totem pole out of redwood tree
> with your likeness at the top? :)
>
>   -jmz
>
>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
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