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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations
- In-Reply-To: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu's message of 24 Dec 92 14:55:18 GMT
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- References: <57990@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Dec23.163445.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- <JMC.92Dec23184831@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <58002@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:02:45
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- In article <58002@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
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- In article <JMC.92Dec23184831@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Victor Yodaiken's Massachusetts is in much better shape than Alaska in
- >that almost all of the land in Massachusetts is in private hands. It
-
- This is such typical right-wing "my eyes are closed so you can't see me"
- nonsense that it boggles the mind. There is essentially no wilderness left
- in Massachusetts, but there is an extensive state park system which
- preserves much of what we have left. Of course the Feds have done a terrible
- job managing our national parks, but it is foolish to draw from this the
- lesson that private ownership is more likely to preserve wilderness and
- open space than public ownership.
-
-
- >is unfortunate that so much land in the West is in the hands of the
- >Federal Government. The Federal Government should auction off 3/4
- >of its land in the Western states including Alaska.
-
- To what end? Instead the government should start acting to preserve the
- property of the general public, instead of allowing it to be degraded for
- the profit of a few well connected welfare ranchers, miners,
- loggers, and tourist concessionaires.
-
- >Alaskans should get their Congrressmen to introduce a bill to do that.
- >Even if it doesn't pass the first time, it will be fun to hear the
- >statists like Yodaiken howl.
-
- Statist? Your logical deductions are not truth preserving.
-
- Well, Yodaiken wants to keep the land in Government hands, and he
- regards people who might buy the land as "a few well connected welfare
- ranchers, miners, loggers, and tourist concessionaires." That's
- pretty statist. Also his posting is as close to a howl as we commonly
- get on Usenet.
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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