What is this forum for?

[Mark Busby]

--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
> Subject: Re: What is this forum for?
> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 4:12 PM
> In response to Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>:
> > >
> > > This list has been around of a LOOOONG
> time.  The rules haven't changed
> > > in the 10 years since I've been subscribed, and
> the list works 99% of the
> > > time.
> > 
> > But there are more and more new "users". It will not
> work that way another 
> > 10 years.
> 
> It's funny, that's the same thing that was being said 10
> years ago.
> 
> In the 70s, they claimed that by the year 2000, there would
> be 3 billion
> people on earth, and over half of them would be starving
> because we
> wouldn't be able to produce enough food.  There are
> now over 6 bil,
> and the % of starving people is lower than ever.
> 
> I have a book from the 80s that predicts that we'll run out
> of oil by
> the year 2000 and have to find another source to power our
> cars before
> then.  The book has graphs showing the available
> reserves and usage
> and everything.  The math all works out.
> 
> After 30 years of hearing doom and gloom predictions, I
> can't even take
> them seriously any more.  When the news about swine
> flue first came out
> and the "experts" were predicting how many people would
> die, I just started
> laughing out loud.
> 
> And I'm laughing at you right now.
> 

There is more profit in preaching about doom and gloom.

"Hey, don't worry it'll work out" will not get you a multi-million dollar study grant.