[MD] Quality computing

[david buchanan]

Case said tp Platt:
Boot comes from boot strap as when the computer starts it is lifting itself 
up by its boot straps. A good conservative like yourself should love than 
one.

dmb says:
Okay, "boot" is a pretty good example. Since I live in this world too, I 
realized that it was probably a reference to hearty footwear and/or the act 
of putting them on and that this implies that it might be something we must 
do before we start working. But what's wrong with the word "start"? What's 
the point of obscuring a concept as simple as "on"? That's what I don't get. 
Why do we need a word like "download" if all it means is "get"? Load makes 
sense all by itself. In what sense is there a downward direction involved. 
Are these files coming down off a satellite? Or is this a reference to my 
status on the foodchain?

Am I saying I could do better? That I could imagine better terms to use? 
Hell yes. But that's no big claim because this is such awful, awful stuff. 
Sure, once in a while there is some cleverness but mostly the lingo only 
misleads and confuses in a million tiny ways. But hey, this whole thing is 
just a baby. These things will get worked out in time, I suppose.

And if, as you say, "booting" refers to the conservative's commandment to 
the poor, that they learn to defy gravity, then it refers to intentions and 
willfullness. I don't see how that can be applied to computers even if we 
don't mind the anthropomorphization of such an analogy.

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