Subj : Re: [OT] Jerry Rice (was: What's "lunch"?? (was: Personal connections))
To   : comp.programming
From : rem642b
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 10:34 am

> From: Duane Bozarth <dpboza...@swko.dot.net>
> Actually, he worked at his job very effectively for quite a long time,
> especially for his profession.  It so happened his job was
> entertainment-related, specifically professional football.

Yes, indeed there is funding available for such completely worthless
professions. It is a sad fact of our current society that there's more
funding for such worthless professions than there is for anything of
value, such as writing computer software for novel/new applications.

> As for what he accomplished outside that arena, he was and continues to
> be a very effective spokesman for many other commercial and non-profit
> enterprises amongst other things.

Please cite five such enterprises which have actual net value to
society or humankind of life-on-earth etc. Advertising for a commercial
product by one company, using sports prestege to push sales of that
product above an identical product by another company, is good for the
first company, bad for the second company, and of no value to society
at large, resulting in a positive cancelling a negative plus a zero
equalling zero. Cite five of his enterprises where the positives
outweigh the negatives to such a high degree that there's no reasonable
doubt the enterprise was a positive net global contribution.

Danny Thomas used his money (from entertainment) to found a really good
hospital. Anything like that would count, as would lesser more direct
work towards something beneficial to society/humankind/life globally.
For example, did Jerry Rice provide funding to an agency that finds
employment, such as computer programming, for disabled people?
(My guess: No.) Did Jerry Rice learn Lisp, and then promote it, or use
it to develop an interesting application/tool? (My guess: No.)

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