<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The technique you describe, Milton, is reminescent of that fine old charade called “science studies” - neither scientific nor a study, as the Sokal Hoax so ably demonstrated :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313" class="">http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Impostures-Alan-Sokal/dp/1861976313</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I believe the book is also published as “Fashionable Nonsense” in some countries).</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Optima; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; font-size: inherit;"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Ironically, you were the one who started this thread by couching a political argument in technical terms. The current internet was worse, you said, because it was less P2P and more concentrated. You said that apps were more closed technically, etc. So after making half-baked claims about how the technical system is evolving you shouldn’t be complaining when people expect you to know your tech. </span></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>