Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 07:25:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@houseofduck.dyn.ml.org> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <XFMail.970728073416.shaggy@houseofduck.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970728131149.7150D-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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On 28-Jul-97 Stephen Roome wrote: >(exucse me I snipped the cc. list) > >On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> > Excuse me have you ever visit LA or Harlem? >> >> Yes, both, and they're excellent arguments for the failure of >society >> to moderate such forces when they resist such moderation. If it was >> your intention to try to give supporting evidence to my position, >> you've done a fine job. ;-) > >Excuse me, homo sapiens has come a long way, and LA may seem pretty >bad. >But are these areas really failures or areas where we haven't come as >far >as quickly. > >LA/Harlem (and there's other places around the world just as bad) are >where people have adjusted and live the same tribal lifestyle that >humans >have lived for thousands of years. I expect in comparison that >actually a >far sight more civilized than say ancient rome or greece. Or even >Saudi >Arabia today. > >At least in LA & Harlem you don't get your head cut off in a public >square >because you told a stole a piece of bread. You might get shot, but >only if >you stole it from the wrong person. > >Is it really a failure then, or just somewhere that hasn't progressed >as >fast as the cosy cotton-wool environments most of the rest of us live >in? > >Steve > >-- >Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. >Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 >WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ > > Whoa. Wow. Reality Check: I was born in cedar's, hospital to the stars, and grew up in West Hollywood. Because of an accelerated program called 'GATE,' I was bussed 45 mins to East LA in order to get a real education. <it was the closest school with this program> There were three or four accelerated classes and a whole school of "normal kids." <their words, not mine!> My nose was broken for the first time at age 7, by a rock the size of one of my HD's, in an arguments over a kickball game, and I witnessed my first knifing at age 8. This school was K-6. I have witnessed drive-by's where innocent victims got mowed down, and I would have too, if I had not ducked fast enough, in the SF Bay Area. Societaly, <is that even a word? :-) > I consider these conditions worse than public behandings/headings, because at least with those, you knew up-front what the risks were. Of course, the moral of these stories are: 1) Only travel east of La Cienega to Hollywood or Cantor's Deli 2) *Never* travel down Mission in The City at night. But they still refute the idea that whole parts of our general society are not in serious need of help. -- Joshua Fielden, shag@concentric.net SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it's occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain.
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