RE: A little courtesy, please

Dan Connolly wrote,
> Simon St.Laurent wrote,
> > URIs are not Platonic Forms, with austere and unchanging 
> > nature - they're useful tools treated differently in a 
> > variety of contexts.
>
> Right.
>
> Resources on the other hand, _are_ abstract things like 
> platonic forms...

<cough/><splutter/>

That just doesn't wash because resources are made of bits, 
which live in filesystems or memory, or get generated by 
processes running on distinctly non-abstract boxes full chips 
and stuff; and they're retrievable because bunches of bits
can be transferred over wires.

Granted a resource can _represent_ something abstract. But if
you can't tell the difference between a representation and the
thing it represents then you're in trouble.

Cheers,


Miles

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