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- From: mscott@quaver.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Mark Scott)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.163437.4484@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
- References: <1992Dec11.222322.7361@microsoft.com> <1536@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:34:37 GMT
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- In article <1536@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>, dom@oasis.icl.co.uk (dominic alston) writes:
- |> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
- |> >In article <716@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- |> >|the cry comes "oh powers that be, protect us from ourselves", and thus
- |> >|we get laws requiring people to wear seatbelts. It is no that
- |> >|I am against seatbelts (or safety), but I was perfectly capable
- |> >|of wearing a seatbelt before the law existed.
- |> >
- |> >To warp your analogy just a little bit, I am reminded of the rental car
- |> >I was stuck with recently that "automatically" -- in the name of "safety"
- |> >presented a motorized shoulder harness across my neck every time I tried
- |> >to climb in or out of the car. Meanwhile, while I was automagically getting
- |> >strangled, there was no equivalent mechanism to connect the seatbelt,
- |> >so if you did crash, you'd be strung up for good.
- |> >
- --
- My brother, who is an Indiana State Trooper told me of a woman who was
- decapitated by the exact scenario described. Sometimes the *tools*
- can present a whole new set of problems.
-
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- Post replies to alt.folklore.urban :-)
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- Mark Scott | "The heart of the wise inclines to the
- Motorola Computer Group | right, while the heart of the fool
- Urbana Design Center | inclines to the left."
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