Subj : RE: Tiers
To   : Andrea Santos
From : Stewart Honsberger
Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 04:21 am

Hello Andrea!

Aug 01 2001 17:12, Andrea Santos wrote to Stewart Honsberger:

 AS>>> Maybe tree limbs don't come down in his little corner of the world.
 AS>>> Happens regularly here. ;-)

 SH>> Actually, they do, but it's of no consequence. My power and phone 
 SH>> lines are buried.

 SH>> What kind of primitive power grid are you in, anyways?

 AS> Has nothing to do with the power grid.  Just how far down do you 
 AS> think you're going to bury anything when you're living at sea level?
 AS> With UPSs and generators everywhere, you're still going down here.

 AS> Sorry if this doesn't compute.

I'm not the one with computational problems, sister. You're trying to project 
your current power situation onto me. I do not live at sea-level. Far from it, 
in fact. Your comment of falling tree limbs falls under the category of 'false 
analogy'.

[Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.brad-x.com/]

   "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain.
    In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.
    In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley
    feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman

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