From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [solved] Re: How to uninstall Emacs? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:44:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <878udrlmm7.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <878ue21nkc.fsf@gmail.com> <87fv88q4t5.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sic6stcg.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <20150411125610231765777@bob.proulx.com> <87lhhx7f6s.fsf@gmail.com> <874mojtxx5.fsf@debian.uxu> <5f29e7cb-f178-4eb1-85c7-e2bbc90f2677@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429224021 29907 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2015 22:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 22:40:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 00:40:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YisSJ-0004qn-7y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 00:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YisSI-0002Zu-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jJ1en54HXKgLY2PtEroRcyUj3yQ= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211485 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103767 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > Nice word -- victim system. Too negative. Experimentation system? > One of the big lacks I find in computer users (and > educators) is the need to change hats. There is the > victim system hat, the valuable system hat and > perhaps many others. We always tend to choose 'my > most comfortable hat' not the most appropriate one. > The most comfortable Sahara hat is unlikely to be > the most comfortable Siberia one Well, this discussion can go both south and east. You should not choose the most comfortable hat, but the most *powerful* hat, and this regardless of your current skills in hats. In time, you will master the most powerful hat (or actually whatever hat you choose) and at that time it will also be the most comfortable hat, by far. You shouldn't adapt too much because then you'll be at the mercy of external events and forces. They will make the agenda, not you: if you adapt all the time by definition your one step behind. You should adapt but only within the frame that is you, the frame that has proven to hold and which you have adapted to you body and mind during hundreds of hours. If that frame took you all the way to the spot right in front of the Siberian tiger, to throw it away right there is suicide - better to rely on it! It is just like the Colosseum of paleo-Rome. There were many weapons from which the gladiators (and gladiatrices?) could choose from. But the most deadly warriors had mastered just one or two. In turn, by mastering them, they could adapt to any other warrior using whatever weapon in front of them. Besides, Siberia is very hot in the summer :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573