From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:23:01 -0500 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <877k9eobcv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <877k96htat.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <200305050618.XAA10052@morrowfield.regexps.com> <200310242258.PAA04035@morrowfield.regexps.com> <20031027091956.190d8366.dsmith@actron.com> <20031027145433.GA18054@www> <1067302679.586.8.camel@zuul> <200310280205.SAA18428@morrowfield.regexps.com> Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067308087 20646 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 02:28:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:28:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 03:28:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEJaW-0005MX-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:28:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEJXQ-0008MW-OR for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:24:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEJWi-0008FF-DI for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEJW9-00087I-Ia for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.245.84.69] (helo=colo.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AEJW8-00086q-VB for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by colo.agora-net.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 1AEJVd-00050G-00; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:23:01 -0500 Original-To: lord@emf.net In-reply-to: <200310280205.SAA18428@morrowfield.regexps.com> ((Unparsable address -- End of addresses in middle of :...; group: ""Tom Lord To":lord@emf.net_^_")) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:2342 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:2342 From: "Tom Lord Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:05:22 -0800 (PST) access to fundamental truths about the nature of the universe (the platonic universe of ideals, no less) -- even things so trivial they've been written down many, many times -- is a class-based privelege. this is why only the trickster class has any hope of Making Things Better. unfortunately, lots of those types descended into the banality that is marketing, and forgot about the future that bears down on not only them but also their purported targets. the result is that access is less the gating factor than simple constriction of desire into very limited/limiting slices of progress. a floating cgi smiley buzzsawing numeric slave symbolism still has the potential to convey the truths underlying machine capability boundaries, but only once the humans consuming such an image become comfortable w/ their own limitations. da vinci and pacioli did not vie against each other; that balance is yet to be regained. in the meantime, what is the practiced "freedom"? what is practiced "peace"? what is the practiced "strength"? thi _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user