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Re:Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co? by shingen on Saturday February 04, 2012 @03:25PM (#3552006)
Why don't all people make their own food?

The same argument applies to almost any category of product, with varying ramifications unique to each.

If I made my own soda, I'd leave out high fructose corn syrup. Why do I let Coca Cola poison me? And so on and so forth.

Re:Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co? by Riesling on Saturday February 04, 2012 @07:30PM (#3552820)
> Why don't all people make their own food?

I do not think that this is a valid comparison.

It would be more like, why don't farmers produce their own food (and rely on packaged food instead).

Re:Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co? by saalweachter on Sunday February 05, 2012 @11:18AM (#3554366)
Most farmers don't produce most of their own food.

The modern world is built on specialization: most farmers have specialized in some direction or another, and the ones who haven't usually make less money. At best, a farmer with livestock will occasionally take a pig or cow off to be butchered (since butchering is another specialty entirely, needing specialized equipment to do well), or a farmer growing corn will plant a few rows of sweet corn in a field near his house, or a farmer growing produce -- usually just a half dozen varieties -- will keep back a little for himself.

But the calories a farmer will produce for himself are generally a small part of his intake. In the end, it's a better use of his time to focus on producing as much of a handful of crops as possible and buy what he needs from a grocery like the rest of us.

Re:Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co? by GnarlinBrando on Saturday February 04, 2012 @03:49PM (#3552078)
Hansons and Jones Soda man, they are so much better.