From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4E767D09.2D69BEC5@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "RT"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4E6D72C5.1D6F0E03@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   >> >   
   >> >> rationale you gave me for doing so. Put me out in the wilderness with   
   >> >> a   
   >> >> small group of like-minded people, and we will have various crude   
   >> >> machines and weapons to make our lives easier within a week.   
   >> >   
   >> > Like what? Steam engines?   
   >>   
   >> I think the phrase "crude machines" is confusing you.  You don't make a   
   >> steam engine out of "stone knives and bearskins", to borrow an old Spock   
   >> expression.   
   >   
   > The early steam engines were crude.   
      
   The scope of the word "crude" does not necessarily mean low-tech.  It is   
   possible to make a "crude" electronic instrument, but that does not make the   
   instrument stone-aged.  It is generally accepted that the term "crude   
   weapons" does not refer to a crude implmentation of a piece of high-tech   
   artillery.  But you realized that.   
      
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