Americans have, generally speaking, more respect for the rights of others - and guns play a part in that, since many of us choose to defend our rights directly. As Heinlein wrote: "An armed society is a polite society."
Google "pink pistols" and "terry mcintyre" if you wish. I say "in general", but there are of course subcultures which have a lot less respect for peace and honesty than others. There was a fellow who sold bagels in office buildings in Washington, DC; customers paid on the honor system by dropping money into a box. A line to an article about his experiences is below. Paul F. found that 80-90% of customers would voluntarily drop money into a box to pay for his products. He also discovered that people in "higher" executive offices were less honest than the more "ordinary" working stiffs. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E1DA1431F935A35755C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Libertarians Do It With Consent! ----- Original Message ---- > From: Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:53 -0800, Michael Gherrity wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have read that the amount of money that a winning computer go > > program would make in a go tournament is insignificant compared to the > > amount of money that such a program would earn selling to the general > > public. I have also read that the biggest pirates of computer software > > come from Germany, the UK, and the US. The foreign exchange student we > > are hosting from Beijing China said that most people in China do not > > buy software, but download it for free off the net. > > My first chess program only sold a few copies in Europe. But I came to > find out that thousands of people had a copy of it. I met many people > in Europe who said they had a copy and many of their friends did. > Someone pointed me a site where you could download it for free. > > For some reason I believed that Europeans in general would be more > honest about stuff like this and that we were "wild" and violent, they > were more civilized (we have guns like you wouldn't believe, they have > very few) etc. Maybe we are more violent but more honest too? But I > know that as a culture we are not very honest either ... > > - Don > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
