From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 23 13:47:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13332 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (ppp1537.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.249.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA13321; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6564.on.sympatico.ca (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17768; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:45:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:45:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Nate Williams cc: ac199@hwcn.org, "Jonathan M. Bresler" , freebsd-chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: <199707231851.MAA14333@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > I disagree. I live in Montana, where we have one of the lowest > income/family in the nation. And, due to it's 'ruralness' we haven't > kept up with the 'standard' with two working parents, so most two-parent > families leave one of them at home *in spite* of their low-income. This > is mostly due to what's acceptable from being a parent, and what's not > in rural America. There is a certain minimum that is acceptable. I still think that for many they would be below that minimum if only one parent was working. > It's all a matter of what's important. Is having a car that < 3 years > old, sending your kids to private schools, having nice furniture, or > children that spend time with their parents more important? It's all a > matter of perspective. Um. Having both parents working does not guarantee one that one will have these things at all, unfortunately. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.