From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 23 11:23:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04819 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (ppp1679.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.249.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04753; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17539; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:18:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 14:18:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: ac199@hwcn.org, "Jonathan M. Bresler" , pechter@lakewood.com, softweyr@xmission.com, freebsd-chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: <7906.869679793@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > And why is there always this patriotic assumption that it would be > such a bad thing? Populations have always moved around, the jet & I will try to be a little bit more direct in expressing my concern. Consider that Canada is a developed country. By no means perfect, and, in fact, with many very evident flaws (which pundits and commentaries always take the opportunity to remind us of every time we top the UN's "best country" list). Consider that as living standards increase, or, more accurately, as the country becomes more "developed", the birth rate falls. Now consider our hope that global living standards will increase over time. My concern is not that any given genetic group will disappear, but that we as a human race may. Yes, for example, the US is a developed country, and it has an increasing population, but consider where this increase comes from? I would be surprised if it came from anywhere other than the substandard areas of the country. > I would argue that rather than arguing for the perpetuation of > increasingly arbitrary genetic entities like "Canada", the most > logical solution would be to simply de-emphasize the whole border > concept and try to think of things more in terms of resources being > moved to wherever they need to go, be those resources human or My concern is global; my example was local. > I'm also not arguing against diversity, don't get me wrong - I'll be > as sad as anyone to see the "pure ethnicity" of certain regions Well, for the sake of this email, I have tried not to fall back onto the argument of diversity, which is hard after being exposed to years of government advertising promoting diversity. :-) -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.