On Apr 7, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Today we have communication
> systems that force cultures to collide, and just
> as we have attained that level of integrative thought,
> the forces of fundamentalist religion, the worst of
> the supercharged superstitious nut cases, are
> rising up. In the US, it is the right wing
> ultra-fundamentalist Christians. In the East,
> the Muslims. On the web, it is the open source guys
> who believe that the point of all of this is
> to collapse Microsoft and any organization they
> touch.
>
> Everywhere I look, the passions are rising. I'm
> not sure modern science has a fighting chance against
> those until they are slaked. It is as if as mammals,
> there is some enzyme we all share that gets invoked
> given some aggregate of signals from the environment,
> and we are helpless against it. Sort of like WWI.
So, you're saying that the XML standards process will precipitate the
next world war?
I'm sure this must be related to XML development one way or another...
-jimbo
Excelsior! XML Marshaller for Cocoa
http://www.homepage.mac.com/jimbokun/Excelsior.html
