Re: [freenet-chat] Installing a bare-bones Linux system is really hard!

["Marcel Popescu" <marcel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Tavin Cole" <tavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Uhhh...  I don't really follow your logic here.  We should have more forests
if
> people aren't cutting them down.  And please don't conflate a tree plantation
> with a forest.

Oh boy, you're so dumb. The chicken population would disappear overnight if
people would suddenly cease to want to eat them. There are huge forests planted
for the sole purpose of being cut down - for a profit. The owner of the forest
wants to make a profit next year, too, so he replants them. Without the profit
motive (let's say it's no longer legal to sell trees), the owner would cut all
of them and start grow something else (profitable) instead.

> Btw, a land area cultivated in hemp rather than trees can produce 4 times as
> much paper over the years and has a 3-6 month rotation instead of 20 years.

Good. I'm not against this. [I was just asking whether this would be more
satisfactorily from an ecological POV, whatever that is.]

> > > For example, can you
> > > just sit down in a dark, quiet room and not think a single thought for 10
> > > minutes and be happy?  What happens?
> >
> > This would be PROGRESS? Yuck... We almost had a civil war between students
and
> > workers, and the workers held signs that said "we work, not think". I didn't
> > realize those were the progressive forces.
>
> I don't say it's PROGRESS, I say it's an interesting experiment.
> Your reaction of "Yuck" is certainly interesting.

Yeah. Anybody suggesting that I don't think gets that reaction.

Mark



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