[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

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On Dec 6, 12:35 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <5bLCzFVlD... at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>
> >In article <00AB970C.C3653... at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>
> >> Point is, competition has driven my services down.  However, my taxes, and
> >> I get nothing for them, keep going up.  Maybe we need competing goverments?
>
> >   No steets?  No police?  No free primary public education (I won't
>
> Streets in disarray.  Where do those tax dollars go?  Oh where, oh where
> to they go?
>
> Police that don't police.  Instead of taxing the bejusus out of the town
> residents, why not enforce the traffic laws and earn money that way?  I
> see illegal U and left turns every time I'm on the roads.

Try robbing a store or a bank, clobbering someone, killing someone,
and see what happens. No, not everyone gets caught, but I'd say a good
majority do.

Several years ago a couple of men robbed a Wendy's in Queens, took the
five employees to the basement, covered their heads with plastic
garbage bags, and shot each in the head. One survived. The NYC police
caught the two men. The amount robbed: $2000.

There was a police strike in a town in Canada once and things got
ugly. From Steven Pinker's book _The Blank Slate_:

"As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic
1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my
parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all
hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test
at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on
strike. ... This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters
(and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist)." — Pinker, Steven
(2002), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin
Putnam, ISBN 0-670-03151-8.

>
> >   say good ;-) )?  No public institutions of higher learing?  No
> >   libraries?  ...
>
> Oh they built a library here.  What a waste.  Very few ever frequent it
> as it's out in the middle of nowhere.  I see more people reading in the
> Barnes and Noble.

In some cases yes, but I invite you to go to the public library in
Brooklyn. It's literally mobbed!

And I bet you don't see too many reading at a Borders book store!

[...]

> >   Gee, I could have sworn I'd driven down your street.  Did it get
> >   removed or did it get privatized?
>
> No.  Just ladden with holes.  Several severe winters here really did it
> in... Oh, but the Mayor's and town council's streets are repaved yearly.
> The common good you know.
>
> >   And I thought I'd driven at a reasonable speed, if I had known there
> >   were no police, I could have moved much faster.
>
> You're OK.  We have several Dunkin' Donuts in town that seem to need a
> constant vehicle patrol.  Just don't cut into the donut line and you'll
> be OK.

Some places are better than others.

>
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>
> All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
> All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.

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