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Article #73838Re: NJ wants to license programmers
From: Dave Williams
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1991 18:25
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1991 18:25
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In article <59257@nigel.ee.udel.edu> duzan@cis.udel.edu (gdtltr@limbo.org (The Befuddled One)) writes: >In article <1991Jul19.225454.816@exurchn1.ericsson.se> exudnw@exurchn1.ericsson.se (Dave Williams) writes: >=>I think it's time we all banded together and required our local, state, and >=>national reperesentatives be licensed. Assemblywoman Kalik could then be >=>sued for malpractice, among other things. >=> > The main problem is that of who gives out the licenses. We would need >someone to insure that those who give out the licenses are qualified to do >so, i.e. a license to give out licenses. Thus we have a recurrence relation. >Where do we terminate the relation? > It was intended to be recursive - they will spend so much time licensing themselves they won't have time to bother the rest of us. Remember what happened to the Igli character in Heinlein's Glory Road - he could eat _anything_, so they fed him his foot... -- = exudnw@exurchn1.ericsson.se || dnw@ponder.csci.unt.edu (214)907-7928 = = David Williams = = Ericsson Network Systems = = Richardson, TX 75081 These opinions are my own. =
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,624fa0d9d693a21f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-22 00:34:49 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!news.funet.fi!sunic!ericom!exurchn1.ericsson.se!news From: exudnw@exurchn1.ericsson.se (Dave Williams) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: NJ wants to license programmers Message-ID: <1991Jul21.182557.14085@exurchn1.ericsson.se> Date: 21 Jul 91 18:25:57 GMT References: <1991Jul19.160827.876@watson.ibm.com> <1991Jul19.225454.816@exurchn1.ericsson.se> <59257@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@exurchn1.ericsson.se Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, Tx Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: floyd