On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:18:25PM +0100, Brian Gough wrote:
Certainly it is applicable to talk of Intellectual Property....
" The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible.... "
True; but how else do you communicate with someone other than in terms they understand? Given the good Yorkshire practice of calling a spade a spade, I'm inclined call IP IP, since it has an actual meaning applicable to the UK.
Similar to the [cr|h]acker debate - people say hacker, fanatics say cracker, and any attempt to get the majority to relearn that a hacker is in fact a cracker is akin to ordering the sea to retreat....
Cheers,
Alex.