[Info-vax] What is VMS?

[AEF]

On Dec 29, 7:10 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <ee77f547-3880-465f-8221-5f8f6878c... at o9g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> writes:
> >On Dec 28, 4:29=A0pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> >> In article <9m1cclFsc... at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.c=
> >x> writes:
> >> >On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:21:02 -0800, seasoned_geek wrote:
>
> >> >> On Dec 25, 2:07=A0pm, Bob Eager <news0... at eager.cx> wrote:
> >> >>> It isn't.
>
> >> >> In the U.S. we have laws against price gouging and they fall under the
> >> >> criminal fraud heading. =A0Selling an in-print book for above list pri=
> >ce
> >> >> qualifies as criminal fraud.
>
> >> >Sounds more like restraint of trade to me. That's the controlling US
> >> >government for you.
>
> >> Right. =A0The gov't should keep its hands out of free enterprise.
>
> >There was recently (a week or two ago) that a woman was killed by an
> >elevator in NYC. The elevator suddenly shot up while the door was
> >still open! Her torso was leaning into the elevator and from the waist
> >down or so she was crushed between the car and the wall. The owner
> >failed many gov't inspections. Now, you can say the gov't was
> >incompetent to stop it. But imagine if there were never any
> >inspections. There'd probably be many more such incidents without
> >them. And if you still blame gov't, somebody has to do it! And who
> >would that be?
>
> That's your take.  Obvioulsy, that lamer government inspector was too busy
> inspecting the wad of payola instead of the elevator.  If there are many of

Well, I may not have spoken accurately. Neither of us know enough
about the situation to make such firm statements about it. My point is
that without inspections things like this would happen far more often.
You only hear about the times things go wrong. It's easy to take for
granted that things are fine simply on their own. When something goes
wrong, then you find out. It's not clear from what I know whether the
gov't inspector was at fault.

> these issues, the market will bear it out and people -- LAZY ASS PEOPLE --
> will start to climb the safer stairs, perhaps lose some weight, and stave
> off adult onset diabetes.

Well, I'd get more facts in the case before going off like that. I
kind of paraphrased it from memory late in the day. And you don't know
how many such incidents were prevented by inspections. Do you really
think it would be better if inspections were stopped? All I know is
that the building received numerous inspection violations. Perhaps
those were tended to but this one occurred before the inspector made
his next round. He (or she) can't be there every day! It's easy to
take things for granted -- until something goes wrong.

Hey, if there were two elevators side by side, and one was regularly
inspected and one wasn't, which would you choose?

Climb stairs? What's the tallest building in your area? Many have
health issues that prevent them from climbing stairs. The "lazy ass
people" are the ones who just stand there on a down escalator.

Hey, stairs have problems, too.

>
> >Get gov't out of free enterprise? You mean repeal anti-trust legislation?
>
> All but the truly CRIMINAL aspects of it.

I too am against criminal activity. I assume you're answering the
first question.

> --
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>
> All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
> All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.

AEF