Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

sicklittlemonkey wrote:
> On Apr 8, 5:12 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
>
> > In article <20070408181642119+1...@News.Individual.NET>,
> > Roger Johnstone  <r...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:
> >
> > > "We salute those amazing products that changed technology--
> > > and our lives--forever."
> >
> > Another exaggreation....  does the guy who wrote that have the
> > faintest idea of what "forever" actually means?  Does he really
> > believe that when the Sun has gone nova and mankind has been extinct
> > for millions of years, that it then really matters whether Mosaic or
> > Netscape "changed our lives" in our brief moment of time?
>
>
> There's nothing wrong with using forever for emphasis.
>
> Try this: Next time your wife says "I'll love you forever ..." explain
> to her that although you appreciate the sentiment, in fact her
> adoration will only last until brain death disrupts the neuro-chemical
> pattern of its representation.
>
> And since you're nit-picking, our sun is too small to go nova.

True, but when the sun becomes a red giant, the earth will be
well and truly cooked.  Hopefully, we will have found new places
to live before then.  ;-)

Since I think that mankind's destiny transcends the destiny of
the solar system, the sun's end may not mean the extinction of
mankind.

-michael

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