On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Marechiare <marechiare@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The point is buying an iPad and smashing it with a baseball
>> bat hurts noone. The person doing it got their jollies from it.
>> Same as I enjoy firing off fireworks. From a societal point of
>> view this should be fine.
>
> things should be used ... the way they are intended to be used.

Are you sure about that?  Humans are adaptive tool users.  The English
language even has a word for that suggests using something in a way it
was not originally intended to be used: utilize.

I find it surprising that an engineer express such a restrictive
notion - that things should not be put to uses other than their
intended use.

(double checking to make sure the subject line is OT...;-)

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