From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 1 19: 3:42 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 0CA1037B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A179643E3B for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0170.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.170] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17lgYu-0003bp-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 19:03:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3D72C6B9.293ECA64@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 19:02:33 -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: <200209011811.g81IBY144315@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: [ ... a shopping list for starting a new country ... ] > > The price for the Tongan Navy was 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. Because it's competing in the same space, of course. The people trying to start the new country were simply out-competed. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message