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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Definition of hacker (argument)
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 22:14:56 EDT
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> Wrong again.  The press sets the definitions these days (not that it should,
> it just does.)  Remember what "pot" and "stoned" mean?  They mean a
> cooking implement and getting killed by having small hard objects thrown
> at you.  However if I said, "my brother/sister got stoned" you think
> drugs, right?

Because I (and probably most of us) am peripherally involved in the subculture
involved. In that subculture pot means marijuana and stoned refers to intoxi-
cation. There are no other meanings I know of within that subculture. Now then,
what does "hacker" mean in this subculture? Depends who you talk to, right? It's
not hard & fast like "stoned".

Point made.