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Originally Posted by EmScape
My husband says I'm trying to make the machine do things it isn't intended to do....
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This may or may not be relevant depending on the personalities involved. Anyone who says something like that to me gets a blank look and, "So what's your point?"
I'm pretty sure that humans weren't intended to go to the moon. And yet we did.
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
-- JFK (at Rice University) 1962
I choose to root every Android device that I have not because the companies that sell them make it easy. They do not. I choose to install the Kindle app on my Nook Color not because Barnes & Noble sent an invitation. They did not.
I choose to do these things, and others, because of the challenges. The companies that sell the devices challenge my rights in ownership. The devices themselves challenge humans for superiority. I accept those challenges, and I intend to win.
Besides, haven't you ever ... persuaded ... your husband do something he didn't intend to do? Well then.
-- Ed