On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Tim Howe wrote: > > > And I love the idea that anyone with mechanical skills can build a > > > functioning car in their basement workshop; but I'm glad that there > > > are laws that govern the minimum standards a vehicle must meet before > > > being allowed on public roads... > > Here's another one! Speech, ideas, and information should be allowed to flow >freely; thousands of pounds of steel should not.
Point taken, the analogy was a poor one. A better analogy could be drawn from neurophysiology, signals are propagating with insufficient damping, the global brain needs to grow some dopamine receptors. -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
