Re: [TCLUG:13418] Protest Aftermath

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

"Eric M. Hopper" wrote:
> 
[snip conversation]
>         The great thing about this is that it builds up the amount of
> information the person has reasonably quickly, but can be cut at any
> time, and the person is still a little richer.  Sadly, it probably is
> too long of a conversation to be useful to have with a passing motorist.

This is very true.  But at any rate, I need to work on my social
interaction skills ;-)

>         I'm leary of playing the analogy game.  Bill Gates has played
> that game far too often to try to make the monopoly charges against his
> company sound ridiculous.

You're right.  Analogies are always broken in some way.  Whenever people
translate computers into cars or vice-versa, it is hard to say what part
of a car would be like the OS, the hardware of the computer, or the data
a computer handles.  Also, a sufficiently talented person can take an
analogy, flip it around, and give it back to you saying something
completely counter to what you said.

However, I believe it is a useful tool in certain situations, although
I'll probably try to hold back my use of analogies in the future.

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