"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs." Home About Loper OS Guiding Principles RSS Feed Contact PGP « The Five Types of Technological Standard On the Still-Undefeated Tyranny of Apple. » No Formats, no Format Wars. Computer users are forever being misled, successfully lied to, sold “old wine in new bottles,” bamboozled in a myriad ways large and small.  Why?  Simply because we are, to use the technical term, suckers .  Not always as individuals, but certainly collectively.  The defining attribute of the sucker is, of course, an inability to learn from experience.  And it seems that meaningfully learning from our mistakes is a foreign concept to us.  Nay, it is anathema.  The darkest heresy imaginable.  Something no one would bring up in polite company.  Something only spoken of by rabid crackpots, on their lunatic-fringe blogs, during full moon. ...