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- From: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Fun things to do to R
- Message-ID: <3825.110.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 14:27:00 GMT
- Reply-To: david.brooks@cutting.hou.tx.us (David Brooks)
- Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
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- FJM> You should probably try taking this to one of the gun control groups.
- FJM> I think you might get some numbers that would open your eyes a bit.
- FJM> The probability of injury from a computer is probably higher than the
- FJM> probability of an injury from a gun, if you scale your numbers by the
- FJM> quantity of the things that are out there, for example. And if you
- FJM> restrict yourself to legally owned and licensed weapons, the
- FJM> probability drops even further. Some people would probably make an
- FJM> argument that the probability of injury from guns is negative, if you
- FJM> take into account the injuries that people receive because they DON'T
- FJM> have one. :-)
-
- Aw c'mon Fred. If hundreds or thousands of people were being injured by
- computers every year don't you think the media would be playing it up to
- the hilt? Do you honestly expect ANYONE to believe that computers are more
- dangerous than guns? And what about the injuries that are prevented by
- computers? I'm willing to bet Saddam Hussein missed his computer systems
- pretty badly while the United forces were bombing Baghdad back to the
- bronze age.
-
- Lighten up man! Computers don't bite!
-
- FJM> --
- FJM> "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
- FJM> live
- FJM> in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- FJM> Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak
- FJM> for me.
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