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Jim Thompson wrote:
> 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:
> [snip]
>>>> Heavens, Yes!  Let's squash competition... and no more bellyaching...
>>>> Windows Vista for everyone ;-)
>>>>
> [snip]
>> 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 ;-)
> 

Strange. Our shepherd does the same thing with me. Every morning.


>> 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 ;-)
> 

Man, what neighborhood do you live in? Even in rough-and-tumble South 
Sacramento where most of the shootings are that doesn't happen a lot.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

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