On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:21:24PM -0700, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > At 09:48 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Steven Brust wrote: > >>At 01:55 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > >>> - Does a yendi differ from a snake in any meaningful way? > >>That's rather like asking if a cocker-spaniel differs from a dog. > >So you're saying that the yendi is the small, cute, bouncy, > >tail-wagging floppy-eared fluffywuffy member of the snake family? > I was thinking more of an irritating, always underfoot, peeing on the > carpet, yapping to go out member of the snake family, but I guess it works > either way. Now, it seems to me that if you had paid attention to the irritating, always-underfoot, and yapping behaviors in a timely fashion, you would have fewer issues with the floor being peed upon. But that's just me. (And let this example state a clear and compelling case *against* a command economy! The invisible hand of the market will allocate its waste-disposal resources more efficiently without the interference of a communal gatekeeper whose excretory needs are not closely tied to the other individuals in his community! Thus proven, ladies and gentlefolk: Communism results in a pile of crap.) There, that should be inflammatory enough to draw a response. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt