Re: Iran

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 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:

>
>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.

Pournelle insists that "Think of it as evolution in action" came from
Niven.
-- 
Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27