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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.groups,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: My last word on sci.aquaria
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.122817.5028@telly.on.ca>
Date: 27 Oct 89 12:28:17 GMT
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In article <2341@vulpes.COM> reynard@vulpes.COM (R. W. F. Clark) writes:

>I'm certain my friends who keep a multi-level structure full of
>dolphins and squids and things like that and sell admission to
>it will be glad to hear that.

While you're at it, as how many of the people who pay to see 'things
like that' do so for scientific purpose.

It's an amusement. A recreation.

>I commend you on your choice of hobby activities.  To imagine
>that there are bastards, sponges, parasites who actually make
>money on this hobby activity.

There are people who make money off EVERY hobby. You don't have to look
to far in most cities to find someone who has made a career (or at least
a comfortable living) from model trains. That doesn't make it a
profession, let alone a sientific pursuit because he has to know about
electrical resistance etc.

Frankly, I admire people who are able to make a living at their
favourite pastimes. Even computer programming. They're not common
but they do exist.

>Did anyone tell you, Richard, that you have excellent
>taste in hobbies?  What do you do for an occupation, collect 
>stamps?

Some people make quite a good dollar buying and selling stamps. So
what?

I know professional photographers who read rec.photo and have no quibble
with the name, because they expect to see it there. If there was enough
traffic on specifically professional topics, they'd create rec.photo.pro
or something like that.

The people trying to justify sci.aquaria continue to amaze me with the
ever-increasing absurdity of their logic.
-- 
   Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
                 evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan
If you're smart enough to be a programmer, you're too smart to be a programmer