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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1176)	8/1/1999 7:36:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 2340

"Resistance to change is as inevitable as change itself." talk about pushing buttons. :) mark

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1176)	8/1/1999 7:50:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 2340

How about the advent of mustard gas, napalm, the Guillotine and domestic asbestos? These are also change. Not all change is good. David, please visit the Petition. Voting is not an aspersion on the new SI. It is support for the old SI. In the real world I can still buy a B&W TV, glass specs or a 5-speed. This does not make the newer products somehow bad. Imo failure to sign the petition is an embrace of GNET's sleek, impersonal new site. It isn't about change - it is about accountability. The Petitioneers aren't malcontent Luddites; that characterization is facile. As jbe has pointed out - the look isn't the thing - it's the attitude. Please don't champion the Machine.

To: David Lawrence who wrote (1176)	8/1/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2340

David, I really, really tried to give Beta SI a chance. I used it exclusively for a couple of weeks. But when the beta was disfunctional for a while last week I went back to the old SI. Guess what, the old one is still better. Oh yeah, BTW, I can't wear contact lenses, so I'm glad I still have the choice of wearing old fashioned glasses. They work better for me. Sometimes, newer isn't better. ------ I suppose that similar results would have have occurred from petitions taken soon after the advent of contact lenses, color television, automatic transmissions, and Windows. Wouldn't life be better with glass spectacles, B&W TV, 5-speeds, and DOS? Resistance to change is as inevitable as change itself.