Classic Elecoms Anyone? (was: List of Words...)

Quothe Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner, from writings of Fri, May 28, 2004 at 07:57:56PM -0400: Just try explaining that to some of the strange Washington DC area folks (a former cow-orker comes to mind) who are "embarassed" to say that they live in the South, so they claim that the South begins somewhere well below the Capitol Beltway where they live and ignore the Mason-Dixon line... of course, I guess that it's only natural for many of those folks in Washington DC to ignore reality, for doing so seems to come naturally to many humans in that area. As to "cracker", surely no appropriate substitution is needed; the only necessary definition of that word needs to be one associated with food, or perhaps someone who cracks things open (e.g. when one prepares scrambled eggs, one is acting as a temporary egg cracker). Electronic computing machine, ECM or elecom. Right... makes sense. Let's call them rentable chauffer driven automobiles, RCDAs, or recdas. As to "cab" as in short for cabin, just call them vehicular cabins, airplane cabins, etc. Getting back to "hacker"... I'm somewhat surprised that this word came into being in connection with computers, electronics, etc., given it's already bloated list of definitions: hacking at something with an axe, hacking as in hack horse and hack riding ("hacking about"), what an RCDA or recda driver does, etc. Perhaps another term would have been better unless someone can clarify how hacker came into being as we know it to be used. Anyone care to offer a good explantion as to why we should continue to call hacking "hacking"? Surely there must exist a good reason. -- Copyright (C) 2004 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved | My VAX | an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & www.rddavis.org | runs VMS & | her other creatures, using dogma to justify such 410-744-4900 | doesn't crash!| beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.