From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 1 11:11:46 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 BB80437B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:11:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org [64.239.180.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6011543E72 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:11:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@jetcafe.org) Received: from hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g81IBY144315; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org) Message-Id: <200209011811.g81IBY144315@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Terry Lambert Cc: Dominic Marks , Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 11:11:29 -0700 From: Dave Hayes 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 Terry Lambert writes: > 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... The real question is why the US wasted a million on it. Apparently their methods must have had some remote chance of success, or it would not have been worth it. >> > I presume you know "The Barometer Story"? >> >> You'd be presuming wrong. > > Here is the original: > > http://www.aiglon.ch/archive/meds/ajl.shtm Ah, I'd read this a long time ago but didn't call it "The Barometer Story". ------ Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org >>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<< A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a 2-bit company who cannot stand 1 bit of competition. -Rev. Pee Kitty, on Windows 95 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message