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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Democracy
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 19:08:02 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <By4pBF.CuC@cs.columbia.edu>, korz@cs.columbia.edu (Frederick Korz) writes:
- =In article <By3nHK.M49@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
- =>"email your [StM's] address to me....i am going to chambanacon this
- =>weekend...i will get a copy and send it to you...."
- =>
- =>kitten is ever helpful when it comes to dispersing information.
- = ^^^^^^^^^^
- =Frood wonders, "Is that like dispersing a crowd? ... 'O.K. now. The
- =show's over, there's nothing for you information here. Go home.'"
- =
- =*chuckle*
- =
- ="Or beaming it out into space, widest dispersion?" :-)
-
- StM, who's of the opinion that before one criticizes another's use of the
- English language, one ought to be damned sure one understands the language
- better than the person being critized does, points out, "Actually it IS.
- Kitten almost certainly did NOT mean `dispensing' information. Her use of the
- term "dispersing" was perfectly valid and appropriate. Heinlein was dispensing
- information when he wrote the book. I suppose you might've thought `disbursing'
- would've been a more appropriate term, but I think not. Dispersing it means
- spreading it around. When you disperse a crowd, you're causing it do spread
- out. Similarly with beaming something into space. The odd thing about
- information, though (and one that makes the economics of information rather
- intractable, by he way) is that no matter how much you try to disperse it, the
- amount in your own vicinity doesn't decrease."
-