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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Different Transit Plans for Different Population Clusters
- In-Reply-To: bl713@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of Sun, 16 Aug 92 17:36:28 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 16 Aug 92 20:39:21
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- In article <1992Aug16.173628.3657@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bl713@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lev Tarasov) writes:
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- The US has been a country run by businessmen for the last century,
- its the biggest debtor nation in the world now. The rich have the
- choices, but what about the poor? With your wasting of water
- resources, what are you future choices? Major diversion schemes
- of rivers from Canada? A state run by businessmen would I
- presume base their policy on profit. When will that magic faith
- that profit maximization guarantee quality of life and environment
- be seen as the modern equivalent of the belief that the rain gods
- determine when the rain will come.
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- Mr. Tarasov has been paying too much attention to people who
- exaggerate. There is plenty of water in almost all parts
- of the U.S. However, if every project to get more is blocked
- by environmentalists, there will be problems till their objections
- are overcome. I suppose that the strange pricing situation for
- water also has to be overcome.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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