From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: ernobe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: humans and technology Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 08:58:44 -0600 Organization: World Order of Baha'u'llah Message-ID: <87fugqhrh7.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493564748 15771 195.159.176.226 (30 Apr 2017 15:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:05:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 30 17:05:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d4qPu-0003xM-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:05:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d4qQ0-00010G-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:05:48 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e90f63957ca0d0d69557cdb5f6ced743"; logging-data="19133"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rfNjfo7JQfPlnpcYP1K88" Cancel-Lock: sha1:a0g2gFDIm0hwst1lIALeKRVrYPk= sha1:nNkz7hBe+jNNZUjYzUJYvCDOoFk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219103 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112905 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > You know the Marxist theory of society etc. > etc.? I you apply that to technology and some > self-knowledge, it seems to click perfectly > with us and Unix and Emacs. Only thing is, > other people will end up with different > technology. Here, there is a notion that some > technology is better than the other. But then > why do people use the inferior technology? > Because they are not as good to begin with? > Why not? Here is where the theory gets shady. > But morals aside, it is a perfect match. > At least for me. But are other people who has > experienced the same perfect match the same as > me? How so? And if you do technology too much, > are you technology as well as human? If yes, > how much do you have to do it? If you reproduce > yourself every day, and a good portion of that > day is technology, and this goes on every day, > where does the line go where you produce > technology and it doesn't produce you? I have experienced the same perfect match as you, but you need to upgrade to Emacs 24.5 (like me) in order to understand that. -- https://archive.org/services/purl/bahai