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Re: Apple2World Site Down
- Subject: Re: Apple2World Site Down
- From: marvinisnot@home.com (Marvin Miller)
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 03:36:00 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband
- References: <8sois0$blv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <iX6I5.1664$E85.39209@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com> <8srbk0$6u1$1@merope.saaf.se> <QYgI5.47181$oA2.11433315@typhoon.southeast.rr.com> <8st5uo$7g6$1@merope.saaf.se> <8sthab$1hkm$1@news.gate.net>
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You guys are driving me crackers with this _very_ old argument ! ;->
Marvin
On 22 Oct 2000 01:53:15 GMT, louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)
wrote:
>In <8st5uo$7g6$1@merope.saaf.se>, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) writes:
>
>>A cracker is someone who has at least some amount of hacker abilities
>>but who lacks the hacker ethics. The word "cracker" is NOT
>>synonymous to any of your suggested replacements. You can be a
>>"criminal", a "vandal", an "idiot" or an "amoral cretin" with no
>>hacking abilities whatsoever - but you cannot be a "cracker" without
>>at least some of it.
>
>Here in Florida, a "Cracker" is someone whose family has lived in the state
>a long time. Since most Floridians are relatively recent arrivals, there
>aren't too many "Crackers".
>
>I don't think most Crackers know much about computers. Many times, some
>are described as "Rednecks". But not all "Rednecks" are "Crackers", and not
>all "Crackers" are "Rednecks".
>
>Then there is also a "Yacker", which describes most of the posters to this
>group.
>
>..................................................Louis