🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 16 May 2008 18:39:39 -0400, "Paul E. Schoen"
<pstech@smart.net> wrote:

>
>"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message 
>news:4OnXj.1326$qH4.1110@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
>> Jim Thompson wrote:
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>>>
>>> Heavens, Yes!  Let's squash competition... and no more bellyaching...
>>> Windows Vista for everyone ;-)
>>>
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>
>The competition I was referring to is the sort that makes drivers do stupid 
>maneuvers to get one or two cars ahead in traffic, or resorting to 
>cutthroat tactics to get advancement in the business world. 

Try as I may, when I'm scurrying to my office, I can't avoid being
cut-off by my dog ;-)

>There is good 
>competition, and as long as it is fair, it results in better products and 
>better people. It's OK for people to engage in sports and games to 
>outmuscle and outsmart each other, but when they buy extra horsepower and 
>bigger vehicles and use them in a deadly real-life game on the roads, it 
>becomes a problem. That is where cooperation is really needed.

I agree.  However I prefer excess power for my own safety.  On many
occasions I've simply out-run highway predators.  I even had one
occasion where some banditos ran out into the roadway to stop me... I
simply took aim and sped up... I could see the whites of their eyes as
they fled ;-)

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                                        ...Jim Thompson
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