From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 28 15:58:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10036 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10031 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA08380; Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:57:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:57:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707282257.QAA08380@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Stephen Roome , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: <4928.870128238@time.cdrom.com> References: <4928.870128238@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > balanced on a knife-edge. How long, for example, do you think your > rosy civilization in the UK would last if electric power generation > abilities were lost and fresh water stopped flowing into your citadels > of civilization, and do you know how fragile that infrastructure truly > is? :) How does that quote go: "Civilization is 3 meals away from total anarchy." Ie; if the general population felt it there weren't enough food to keep it happy for another 3 meals, all semblances of 'civilization' would soon go out the door. Nate