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- Subject: Re: accepting risk (was speed traps on 2222)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.025853.15872@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:58:53 GMT
- References: <21813@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Nov5.150831.24700@hal.com>
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- In article <1992Nov5.150831.24700@hal.com> ables@hal.com (King Ables) writes:
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- [...]
-
- >
- >If you are willing to take more risks than someone else, then enjoy the
- >fact that you will have more exhilarating experiences than some others.
- >But don't put them down for not caring about those particular experiences
- >enough to take the risk. A long and healthy life is important to some,
- >too, and it's a perfectly reasonable thing for which to strive. We don't
- >all have to be "pushing the envelope" in everything we do.
-
- More often, the problem seems to be that those who haven't any interest
- in pushing the envelope manage to get laws passed that prohibit envelope-
- pushing.
-
- >---------------------------------------------------------------
- >King Ables HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
- >ables@hal.com 8920 Business Park Dr., Suite 300
- >+1 512 794 2855 Austin, TX 78759
- >---------------------------------------------------------------
- >"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug."
- > -- Dire Straits & Mary-Chapin Carpenter
-
-
- --
- Chris Moller (moller@austin.ibm.com)
-
- IBM pays absolutely no attention to my opinions, ergo the
- foregoing cannot possibly represent its position.
-