On 6/20/15, Greg Chalik <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard, technology is just tool use.

[looking for the banana which should accompany this "educational" comment . . .]

> However, tool use is necessitated by
> the 'art' of the tool user, the creative capacity. This includes inventing
> new tools, or using existing tools in new ways.

[still looking . . .]

> Mercenaries were warfare artists.

Wrong.

Mercenaries were - and are - *profit* artists.

Actually having to fight [and take the concommitant casualties] in
order receive renumeration represents a degree of *failure* on the
part of their business model.

--
Richard Aiken

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