From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 17 21:36:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05453 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:36:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05442 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03896; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:37:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA19689; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:37:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:37:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: Mike Smith cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? In-Reply-To: <199709180026.JAA00941@word.smith.net.au> 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 Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > And the genetic diversity of our species decreases, reducing our > > > species's ability to resist various plagues and what-not. > > This is somewhat of a nonsequiter. More specifically, losing a few > isolated idiots in car accidents is not likely to substantially dent > the human gene pool. Of course, the same argument says that their loss will not make a significant difference in the average intelligence. Further, given the more pragmatic reason of wanting to save idiots for the purposes of doing grunt work, it would seem to be worthwhile to save them. > OTOH, a few isolated morons Di-ing (Dodi-ing?) due to lack of seatbelt > precautions can provide hours of amusement and humour to the rest of > the population. Well, this is true... :-) Of course, the intelligentia of the population are overly concernced about the things intelligentia are usually concerned about. Therefore, smart people will make bad parents, but morons will be good, and, as a result, they will raise smart children. We must kill all the smart people. [Uh oh. No time to don a flame suit. Just run!! :] -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk