Re: prices

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From: Ian Chai
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 03:34

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In article <1991Apr26.171224.10880@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
>In article <1991Apr22.055054.7976@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai) writes:
>>I second that! Yes, these prices sorely tempt me to piracy.
>
>It's really the ease of theft, and the improbability of detection,
>not as much as the prices, I think. The price of a Mercedes doesn't
>tempt me to piracy, but if you could drive one into your two-car
>garage and hit command-D "Duplicate" and put the original back,
>I'd think about it over the weekend.
>
>It would still be wrong.

*sigh* I should have known to put a disclaimer on that original
message... note I said, "tempt".

I am not advocating piracy, ok?

-- 
Ian Chai      Internet: chai@cs.ukans.edu      Bitnet: 2fntnougat@ukanvax
I don't believe in flaming. If I appear to be flaming, either (a) it's an
illusion due to the lack of nonverbal cues or (b) my sprinkler system has
suffered a momentary glitch, so just ignore me until it's fixed.

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Subject: Re: prices
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