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Re: clarity

  • From: John Clarke
  • Date: Wed Apr 27 06:30:08 2005

Missing here is a critical part of the analogy - if it's to apply to the internet, we have to assume that the contaminants we are speaking of are put back INTO the system from the end user, just just delivered in one direction.  Rare, I would assume, is the ability of a water end user to put back water into the system, unless we also speak of the waste disposal system too :)

/john

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:19:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong is reputed to have mumbled:
> 
> --On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 7:39 +0000 [email protected] 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:13:16AM -0700, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> >> On April 26, 2005 11:36 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> >> > > I think it's absurd.  I expect my water delivery company not to add
> >> > > polutants in transit.  I expect my water production company to
> >> > > provide clean water.
> >> >
> >> >         er.. bad analogy warning... please take a sample of tap water
> >> >         to an independent lab for analysis...  and find out just what
> >> >         the water company is putting into your water.
> >>
> >> Actually that _is_ a bad analogy.
> >>
> >> According to my sister (who works in that area as a regional water
> >> expert), tap-water is held to higher standards than bottled water.
> >> In Canada at least... ymmv.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> --dr
> >
> > 		perhaps you mis-read.  water companies -always-
> > 	add things to water, to kill off germs, balance mineral content,
> > 	etc..  they do this to -meet- the "higher" standards.
> > 	and by their tampering, they pollute the water...
> > 	their pollution may make the water drinkable and safe.
> > 	does n ot change the fact that the water was tampered with.
> >
> Bill, I was very specific about transit.
> 
> Yes, most water transit companies are also the water supply company, but,
> in my analogy, and, in some areas, as a matter of fact, they are not the
> same.  The chemical tampering of which you speak is done by the water
> supply company at the supply point before it is put in the pipes for
> transit to the end user.
> 
> The water delivery company runs said pipes, and, my expectation from them
> is that they deliver what they got from the water supply company without
> any additional contaminants.
> 
> Think of the web hoster as a water supply company.  The household user
> is an end user.  The ISP is merely a pipeline.
> 
> Owen
> 
> > --bill
> 
> 
> 



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