Mastering the Internet

[Ian Batten]

On 13 May 09, at 1747, Tom Thomson wrote:

> Maybe I'm crazy, but I think that if someone delivers a bottle of  
> beer into
> my drawing room he has made the beer available to me - whether I  
> have opened
> the bottle or not.  I don't understand what sort of convoluted logic  
> you
> have used to reach a different conclusion.  Apparently you want to  
> say that
> when he puts the bottle on the table he hasn't yet made the beer  
> available
> to me, but some time later, when I open the bottle, he has by magic  
> (or some
> other means) and without any further action on his part made the beer
> available.

Consider a hotel mini-bar.

ian