On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:44:20AM -0700, w9ya wrote: > O.k.... well try to not be so strident with things like "It's stupid" when > someone tells you about reasons and goals and results. That may be "history" > lesson, but it also may just hold something you have not considered because > you did not know of it. Your mention of history is irrelevant. You say things have always been the way they are now, so how can you know if a different system would be better or worse? You can't because you don't have the history.