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- From: frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What REALLY pisses me off about the Pro-Abortionists
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:40:34 GMT
- Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
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- References: <1992Nov5.223732.26199@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1de3flINNm51@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov15.051701.20791@rotag.mi.org>
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- In article <1992Nov15.051701.20791@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >In article <1de3flINNm51@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
- >>
- >>I guess what I am trying to do is rattle the cage of those who think that
- >>z/e/f's "don't exist". I'd like to suggest that there is no shame in valuing
- >>something for its potential. Duracell got rich on lousy batteries, and
- >>that's just potential energy.
- >
- >When one buys a battery, mostly what one buys is portable containment of
- >energy, not energy itself. Kilowatt-hour for kilowatt-hour, it's much cheaper
- >to buy what's coming right out of one's wall socket.
-
- Right. And when one buys milk, one is mainly buying a carton - portable
- containment of milk. It's much cheaper in the long run to buy a cow. Still,
- there's no shame in buying cartons of milk, and no one claims that the
- cartons do not contain milk, even without having looked inside.
-
- What on earth is one buying when one falls in love, I wonder?
-
- >If we want to truly compare energy to potential energy, howzabout the
- >difference between what's coming out of my wall socket, and a promise from
- >the power company to eventually provide me electricity? Which is going to
- >keep my refrigerator, and my microwave, and my bedroom LAN running? Which
- >is more "valuable" to me, right here and now?
-
- Even that electricity is only potential energy. I guess you were robbed.
-
- >For best results, try answering this question during a complete power
- >blackout. :-)
-
- Hard to read the physics book in the dark, of course. Maybe that's why
- Duracell sell those torches.
-
- > - Kevin
-
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