Offtopic - Re: [Gllug] Geforce2

[Vincent AE Scott]

Roger Wernersson(roger at elixir-studios.co.uk)@Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:10:27AM +0000:
> I suppose you walk on the grass, not on the sidewalks. I guess you
> didn't go to school. You might even have been born at home and not on a
> hospital.


thats my first funny thought for the day!
thank you.

 
> But for my own part I know that several of my friends would have been
> dead, even more disabled, and practically none of them litterate had it
> not been for public funding.

ah, but is there not a possibility that you could (and your friends)
atually be better off under an alternative social regime?  Without
actually having witnessed what future oppoutunities there might be, how
can you be sure those people with disabilities wouldnt have been better
off?  perhaps treated as equals to everyone else?  At the end of the day
the funding may allow them more freedoms, but do some people still look
down at them in the street?  

in order to design a new society, i think you have to throw away
everything you already know, apart from a afew core idioms.  like, life
is precious.


> 
> /Roger, glad to pay taxes

i'd be happier if my taxes went towards things i thought more important.
it did annoy me, that my tax moola dropped a nipple on greenwich, when
there's homeless people living in london.


> 
> William Palfreman wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Kieran wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, William Palfreman wrote:
> > >
> > > > The reason not to vote is because it is a fraud, perpertrated by people
> > > > who've made stealing from you into a profitable business.  Voting implies
> > > > you accept the rules and will accept the result.  I don't.
> > > >
> > > Am I being trolled?  I think you should say what you really think.
> > 
> > No, of course not.  That is what I really think.
> > 
> > > What do you propose as better?
> > 
> > Nothing.  Not voting and not having the results of voting.  People not
> > being able to vote to take things of me or make things I do illegal on
> > spec.  Done a tape backup recently?  These days I risk imprisonment if
> > tape backups I do at work aren't availble for the next 7 years.  It isn't
> > just that.  These elected people don't do a single thing for me, or at
> > least not a single thing that I wouldn't rather sort out for myself on my
> > terms.  Even if I did get something out of it it is still a useless
> > burden of a way to live.  Generations grow up thinking of these people as
> > a wierd parent figure, which they love all the more the more abusive it
> > gets to them.  I don't have any control on them, they don't do anything
> > for me apart from taking money off me and passing laws against things I
> > like doing, and they don't even make any effort to do anything useful to
> > me.  I quit.
> > 
> > --
> > William Palfreman
> > 
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