Subj : Re: [OT] Jerry Rice (was: What's "lunch"?? (was: Personal connections))
To   : comp.programming
From : karen
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 05:45 pm


"Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t" <rem642b@Yahoo.Com> wrote in
message news:REM-2005sep09-002@Yahoo.Com...
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> 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.)

I don't get it.  Since when is learning or promoting Lisp in any way
comparable to funding hospitals or other actions that are beneficial to
humankind?  Very few software programs provide the same value as just
helping people with time or money.  I don't watch football, but that's still
of more benefit to more people than developing an interesting tool in
whatever language.

And I'm sorry, don't feed the trolls and all of that.  I know.  I'll go back
to lurking.  Sorry.

-karen

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