...and what does this have to do with vintage computers?
Why don't you take your useless punk-ass ideas over to the alt.simpleminded
newsgroup where it belongs. Besides, I don't even believe that you agree
with what you're saying here because no one could be that stupid. I think
that you just want to get a rise out of the folks in this group, which
you've achieved, so why not stuff a cork in your pie hole and STFU.
Ernest
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 11:01 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)
>
>
> The trick is to assign a penalty so severe that all people, no
> matter how many
> trillions they have, will not want to pay it, and that, having
> paid the penalty,
> they will absolutely not make the choice to do that again. I can
> only think of
> one such penalty, though there are many ways of administering it.
>
> For example, if the fine for speeding were 100% of all your
> personal holdings,
> irresprctive of how much that might be, including clothing and
> other personal
> belongings, and 95% of all you earn or otherwise acquire for the
> next 30 years,
> assuming you can survive that long on only 5% of what you
> acquire, you might not
> choose to speed, particularly since it would require you to watch
> your children
> starve, if they hadn't already. It would be costly and diffucult
> to exact that
> penalty, while a quick bullet between the eyes would be easy and
> simple. If a
> mistake were made, well, a posthumous apology would have to suffice.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)
>
>
> > >There's clearly a second alternative, which is to be
> > >prepared to pay the penalty. For example, I often speed,
> > >but if caught I don't complain about having to pay a fine.
> > >I have assumed the risk.
> >
> > That's called person responsibility, and with the way lawyers
> > have made everyone believe that they are the victim, it's a rare
> > thing to see. I do the same thing though...if I'm doing something
> > like speeding it's because I conciously decided to and if I'm stopped
> > for it, I'll pay the price for doing so.
> >
> > Jeff
> > --
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> > http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
> >
> >
>
Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 01:59:32 BST