Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:40:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jamie@itribe.net (Jamie Bowden) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? Message-ID: <199709171840.LAA01059@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199709161246.IAA03466@gatekeeper.itribe.net> from "Jamie Bowden" at Sep 16, 97 08:54:48 am
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> > You don't. This is the tax God levies on infidels who conform to > > shitty standards. The universe has no pity on morons, nor should we. > > Mankind will never advance if nature does not punish stupidity and > > reward intelligence. Now ask me about seatbelt laws. 8-). > > So tell us about seatbelt laws Terry. :-) When someone isn't wearing a seatbelt, and they get into an accident, and they die, average human intelligence goes up. Only an idiot will not wear a seatbelt, given the Emirical data about their effectiveness. When we legislate fines for not wearing a seatbelt, we are saving only those people who are (1) too stupid to wear seatbelts out of self protection and (2) too geedy to part with whatever small fine results (usually, it's a secondary offense, meaning they can only cite you for it if they stop you for something else, so these people are the people who get stopped for endangering the public anyway). In other words, we are rewarding stupidity. Better to let nature take its course, and reward intelligence. Most "public safety" legislation falls into this category. It's like imposing a $50 fine on an astronaut who goes out of the capsule without checking his helmet seals: what's the point? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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