-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 05:55:48AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:53:01PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > [Evi Nemeth, et al on cloud servers] when pets are > > sick, you expend resources trying to heal them; when cattle are sick, you > > shoot them [p. 272, fifth paragraph]. > > This is because you have many cattle doing the same things for > you, whereas you have a unique relationship with each pet.
[...] > Both cattle and pets continue to exist, because they serve > different needs. The tools that enable cattle can allow you to > heal or resurrect a pet, but at a higher upfront cost. Now what would be interesting is a sociological/anthropological study on whether some people rather tend to pets and others tend to cattle, and how cultural, psychological and other factors influence that :-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAltIfaoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY3JACeKPZtV2SZjvukIuIsPh6xSc49 t0QAn1UktWLhmTMcRQ/Uf6Hnm745CYRA =id8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
