On 6/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas</b> <<a href="mailto:thomas@thomasoliver.net">thomas@thomasoliver.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div>We err to take fear-speak too seriously. Fear merchants have abounded by virtue of the hypnotic effect of their scary headlines. They sucked space, but if you could tolerate them, and not succumb to suggestibility, you could avoid getting sucked down. Trying to suppress negative memes seemed to strengthen them. There remains plenty of hard evidence that love resolves fear. That corny old philosophy has never failed. If you can't do that then love yourself for not tolerating singularitarianism.
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Maybe you're right. What was the line from the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "...loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it"? I'll go for the middle option :)
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div>By the way, what work do you do?</div></div></blockquote><div>
<br>I'm a programmer, working on data processing stuff at the moment, have ideas regarding smart CAD and reusable procedural knowledge that I intend to have a go at implementing if and when I get a clear run at it.<br>
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