Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:52:15 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, Janie Dykes <jkn33@pangeatech.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <19990704115215.B220@whizkidtech.net> In-Reply-To: <377F0969.B4BF6496@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 01:12:41AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907031750190.40035-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <377EA69C.6729DB43@softweyr.com> <19990704012556.A220@whizkidtech.net> <377F0969.B4BF6496@softweyr.com>
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[Moved to chat from hackers] On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 01:12:41AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > "G. Adam Stanislav" wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 06:11:08PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Trust me, greenie, those of us who a FAR from 16 wish we weren't. ;^) > > > > What, and miss the sixties??? Get back to your handbasket! :-) > > Our experiences of the sixties were probably different. No doubt about that. I spent mine in Czechoslovakia, a country that was trying to replace Stalinism with democracy, just to be crushed by the August 21, 1968, invasion and the subsequent restoration of hardcore Communism. When I say I would not want to miss the sixties, I am not talking wearing flowers, using LSD, or going to Woodstock. I did none of that (for that matter, I did not hear about Woodstock until the eighties). The reasons I am glad I experienced the sixties are not because of what happened or did not happen to me personally. No, what I like about it is that I personally lived through a period when for the first time in recorded history mankind as a whole realized that things can be different. That we do not have to do everything exactly the same way our parents did, and their parents did, and so on for millenia. There of course always were changes from generation to generation. But they were small. And they were not global. In the sixties changes were radical, and they sweapt the whole planet. Not all of the changes were necessarily for the better (as both your and my personal experience show). The point I am trying to make is that more changes happened, and on a larger scale, within that one decade than ever before in human history, or ever since (by now, anyway). And that is why I would not trade the experience of having lived through that decade for youth or for anything else. Adam > I spent mine as a > dirt-poor "GI brat", the son of an American military man, watching my father > fly to far away lands to get maimed. He was wounded in Tripoli when Qaddafi > took Libya from King Idris, and later in Thailand during the Khmer Rouge > reign of terror, sending young pilots to die at Thud Ridge. We just wanted > him home safe. > > We spent 1970 at Fort Benning, Ga. We went to the commissary every Thursday, > and watched the fleet of chaplains cars coming and going, doing next of kin > notification. That (and the space program) are what the sixties mean to me. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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