On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "What comes of litigation? Poverty and degredation to any community that > will encourage it. Will it build cities, open farms, build railroads, erect > telegraph lines and improve a country? It will not; but it will bring any > community to ruin. It draws hundreds of men within the circle of its > influence, who crowd the court rooms and spend days and weeks and months of > their precious time for naught, time that should be employed in getting > lumber from the canyons, in building houses and in providing comfortable > means of subsistence for their families. Does it make peaceable, honest, > and industrious citizens? It does not, but it engenders strife and habits > of intemperance and idleness. Instead of crime being lessened by its > influence, it only helps to swell the dark stream." - Remarks by Brigham > Young, in the Bowery, in G.S.L. City, August 12th, 1866. REPORTED BY G. D. > WATT. 11:257
Exclusive advice to the community, no doubt. Nevertheless Watt gets +5 Insightful. It may be a fortelling to the ascendency of Court TV (shame on all of us - you know you watched OJ). In the list of fruitful activities can we add "build software"? -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make clockwise circles on the floor with your right foot; now, without looking at your foot, use the index finger on your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
