On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 08:47:41AM -0400, Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > > 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.) > Ah, but Matthew your argument presumes that the communal gatekeeper does not > have the same excretory needs as other individuals in his community. I must > conclude that you have no young children or you could not have missed that > best-selling masterpiece of toddler non-fiction _Everyone Poops_. I have severe concerns about any human whose excretory needs exactly match those of a yipping, irritating, door-scratching entity, whether yendi or canine. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt