Re: Iran

In article <Xns9AA5D9FA9D12Copusthepenguinnettax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Opus the Penguin  <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>D.F. Manno (dfmanno@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
>
>> In article <69cbimF3238tgU2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>  Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> dilbert firestorm <scanb31@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> >I reiterate, "I hate time travel!"
>>> 
>>> That's OK,  It can't happen anyhow.
>>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven's_laws
>>> Scroll down to the time travel one.
>> 
>> This is the same guy who thinks that a good way to help hospitals
>> stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the
>> Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in
>> order to harvest their organs for transplants.
>> 
>> "The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by
>> illegal aliens who aren't going to pay for anything anyway," Niven
>> said.... I know it may not be possible to use this solution, but
>> it does work." 
>> 
>> <http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2008/March/SecurityB
>> eat.ht m#Science>
>> 
>> or <http://tinyurl.com/yoem82>
>> 
>
>Seems like a modest proposal.

While Niven and Pournelle have done "Modest Proposal" stuff before
(minting coins out of radioactive waste), this sounds too nasty and
racist for Niven.  Pournelle...all bets are off.

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