From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rapidly navigating buffers using search
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:50:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XfKdnZECIp8-oafRnZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873cd6b9-8a85-478f-9943-c3ce09eb62c6@n8g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Xah Lee wrote:
> On Jul 11, 6:31 am, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>>> my point is that this train of thought is bullshit, in particular
>>> always just to mention something about Microsoft Word, and like the
>>> way you did in a disrespectful way of writing Microsoft as M$.
>> I am disrespectful of their goals, tactics, philosophy, sociopathy but
>> not the people. Unlike the Supreme Court, I don't think corporations are
>> people, just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated.
[...]
> you wrote:
>> just legal fictions that have to be mercilessly regulated.
>
> You are ignorant of basic economics. I suggest reading Thomas Sowell's
> Basic Economics. I have some (lousy) notes here
> http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/jdini/basic_economics.html (if
> you are one of the free software proponent, who like to pirate things
> at night, i noticed that the audio version of Thomas's book is
> available free on the net thru bittorrent. Go grab it quickly before
> it got mercilessly regulated.)
I bought (for $30 or $40) it and read it a year or two ago. I agree that
it is must reading. Sowell has a hold of the elephant by one of its
larger appendages. I agree about that and some ergonomics issues that
you have broached, but about nothing in detail. The rest should be
passed over in silence....
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-11 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 6:43 Rapidly navigating buffers using search Jonathan Groll
2010-07-07 6:52 ` Aidan Gauland
2010-07-07 6:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-07-07 7:40 ` Qiang Guo
2010-07-07 8:01 ` Jonathan Groll
2010-07-07 8:45 ` Andrea Crotti
2010-07-07 9:33 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-07 10:25 ` Jonathan Groll
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1278498387.2272.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <9dc07ed9-f6f1-4ac5-949a-5b97368cc32a@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-08 2:28 ` despen
[not found] ` <87mxu22rbc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
2010-07-08 17:59 ` bolega
2010-07-08 22:11 ` WYSIWYG and usability (was: " Peter Flynn
2010-07-08 20:42 ` despen
2010-07-09 21:18 ` Fixing antediluvianisms in Emacs' UI Ilya Zakharevich
2010-07-10 14:22 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-09 21:39 ` Rapidly navigating buffers using search Ilya Zakharevich
2010-07-10 18:13 ` Xah Lee
2010-07-10 23:25 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-11 4:47 ` Xah Lee
2010-07-11 13:31 ` B. T. Raven
2010-07-11 16:13 ` David Kastrup
2010-07-11 21:58 ` B. T. Raven
[not found] ` <873cd6b9-8a85-478f-9943-c3ce09eb62c6@n8g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
2010-07-11 21:50 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2010-07-10 21:01 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-07 10:54 ` Aidan Gauland
[not found] <mailman.0.1278485069.2272.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-07 8:43 ` Stefan Kamphausen
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