AP Al quim

[Sunder]

Oh, you mean like the parable of the ants and the grasshopper? Where the
ants get the results of the work they put into it, and the grasshopper who
didn't do any work starves and freezes in the winter?

So now you're saying that the very thing you've had a problem in the past
with because it's capitalism is now a good thing.  So are you finally
evolving?


----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos---------------------------
 + ^ + :Surveillance cameras|Passwords are like underwear. You don't /|\
  \|/  :aren't security.  A |share them, you don't hang them on your/\|/\
<--*-->:camera won't stop a |monitor, or under your keyboard, you   \/|\/
  /|\  :masked killer, but  |don't email them, or put them on a web  \|/
 + v + :will violate privacy|site, and you must change them very often.
--------_sunder_ at _sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Jim Choate wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David Honig wrote:
> 
> > At 09:53 AM 12/11/01 +1100, mattd wrote:
> > >Tim said its an openly elitist list 
> > >once.
> > 
> > Yes, so is an university.  A meritocracy is necessarily discriminatory.
> > 
> > Deal with it.
> 
> Don't confuse having a high standard of excellence with simple egotism
> (which is the majority of the cases with both your examples).
> 
> And no, a meritocracy isn't disriminatory. You get what you put into it,
> not what somebody else thinks it's worth.
> 
> 
>  --
>     ____________________________________________________________________
> 
>              Day by day the Penguins are making me lose my mind.
> 
>                                              Bumper Sticker
> 
>        The Armadillo Group       ,::////;::-.          James Choate
>        Austin, Tx               /:'///// ``::>/|/      ravage at ssz.com
>        www.ssz.com            .',  ||||    `/( e\      512-451-7087
>                            -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'-
>     --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>