From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 1 9:34:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6F937B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC5643E4A for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0091.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.91] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17lXgM-0001P9-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 09:34:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3D72415D.3F1B220E@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 09:33:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hayes Cc: Dominic Marks , Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <200209011613.g81GDn143323@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave Hayes wrote: > > Not really; it just changes the order of purchase for the items > > you put on your shopping list. > > There's a case of rapidly diminishing space on this planet for the > people that are on it. I'd say that existing "societies" are aware of > this fact, and use that as a justifier to make sure that no one > can go find their own island. The price for the Tongan Navy as US$1M; seems to me that if you had bought them first, the problem would not have arisen... > > I presume you know "The Barometer Story"? > > You'd be presuming wrong. Here is the original: http://www.aiglon.ch/archive/meds/ajl.shtm And here is a more literately amusing, though fictionalized, version: http://168.229.236.7/~rkc1/baro.txt -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message