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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] The Results (Was RE: ASN.1 and XML)
 Al, good buddy, email compatriot, funky fellow on other side of big pond, let's go back a few years. "All you need is love... dah dah dahdahdah"... no not that far back. That's the Sixties. Great music; too much dieing. Let's go back to say... 1989. What was happening? Most of us here on this list were sitting behind big scary walls. Some of the walls, particularly for those of us with .us or .ru extensions, had very big very scary guns on them. To have a conversation, we had to get a visa, get a briefing, get a debriefing. We had to get on an airplane; stay in bad hotels, eat rotten food made by British chefs. Some of us couldn't get out at all. Some died trying. We lived in fear of what we didn't understand and didn't understand we were afraid of. We were afraid of dieing in one big orgy of hot thermonuclear bean dip without ever having had the chance to get acquainted with the Doritos. What has been happening since then? Well, thanks to some kids hacking a bad design and a strange little protocol hacker under a steam pipe figuring out how to hook up discarded weapons stuff left laying around by the guys on the walls with the big scary guns, starting in about 1993, we started having the biggest party line conversation in history. Nothing like it had ever happened. Down came the walls. No starship, no soldiers marching into town and stamping people with stars, or lining them up against the wall for their opinions, no nuclear blowout, no huge revolution. Just people talking, little people, big people, lots of people all talking about whatever was on their minds, able to find other people with the same things on their minds, not American, not Russian, not even British, just people. I call that results. I call that a dammed freakin' miracle. We got together. Make's an old hippie happy to be here. Peace. As for making it a better place to converse, well, that is why we are on this particular party line. If ASN.1 has ideas to make it better, bring 'em on. If the idea is to replace the phone, forget it. Mammals are partying here and won't stop to clean up the mess. They like the mess. They are messy mammals. Come dance in the dirt! It's ALLL Goood! Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard 
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