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And that legendary Western hero, `Bat Engineerson'?
I dunno.. I can't see Darth Vader breathing hard and saying:
"What is thy bidding, my Engineer?"
Regards,
Pete Margaritis
PMargaritis -at- alldata -dot- net
"Thank you... drive through..."
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> From: Chris Hamilton[SMTP:cah_91 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Reply To: Chris Hamilton
>
... I propose that we use engineer/tech writer. Its merits
> are obvious. Everyone knows how engineers treat us, and
> that's the perfect metaphor for the technological
> reality that master and slave represents. The slave is
> just told what to do by the master and must do it,
> with no regard to the slave's creativity and need to
> express itself. And, as we all well know, the entire
> world understands how we are downtrodden by oppressive
> engineers.
>
> There will be some problems at first. People will have
> to start ordering "Engineering FrameMaker" to
> understand the only DTP product Dan Emory has ever
> used.
>
