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* Alexander Schmolck
| Sure, but where do you think I don't understand the theory?

  Because you show no signs of listening when the same argument is just
  repeated unchanged from posting to posting.  I write in the hope that the
  reader thinks about it.  This there is no evidence of that, I tire quickly.

| Anyway, I'd still be interested in hearing about the rationale for the
| following design decisions:

  Perhaps you should pay someone if you want to order them around without
  listening to their objections to your demands.

-- 
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.