From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
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   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "RT"  wrote in message   
   >> > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >> >> "RT"  wrote in message   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > Remember: "abandon advanced technology in an attempt to avoid repeating   
   > the   
   > cycle of destruction and rebirth"   
   >   
   > There is a lot of wiggle room there and it does not exclude something   
   > like making a tent or bow and arrow.   
      
   Well, I'm not excluding a bow and arrow either.  But that's not a steam   
   engine.   
      
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