Speaking of cubes

From: Shawn T. Rutledge <rutledge_at_cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com>
Date: Thu Oct 12 23:21:08 2000

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:59:49PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Wait a sec. Something you said made me stop and think for a minute.
> YOU, an individual, own a thing. An action by a completely separate
> group of individuals far far away have magically made the thing you
> own *obsolete*?
>
> How is it that we, as a society, can have this happen?

I thought all old-tech afficionadoes knew the answer to that one...
if it still does everything you want it to do, then it's not obsolete.
And in any case obsolete doesn't mean the same thing as useless.

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