On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, J. van Baardwijk wrote: > >Because you're not the damn police. Why should anyone be happy that > >someone who's not the police "graciously" declines to give them a ticket? > >Why should I let you unilaterally define the terms of a conversation so > >that it can only go your way? > > Thank you for proving my point, Marvin.
I'm sorry, you had a point? :-) Apologies: yes, I would much rather receive a warning than a ticket. And after further consideration, I think that if we all calm down we'll see that there's no grand Brin-L police state conspiracy going on, just some clumsy modes of expression. Still, the police metaphor is a bad one, for reasons I've already outlined. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
