>
> Now, if we could get rank stupidity declared a felony, that would solve
> this problem and a number of others!
>
> -PSP
>
A concept I picked up at HNC over the summer might do equally well : the
"stupid tax". You just levy a tax on stupidity, with the magnitude of fine
proportional to just how stupid the action was. People already pay it on
some occassions; if you're stupid enough to tilt a coke machine to try to
get change or a free soda out of it to the point where it tips over, your
stupid tax is getting crushed under it when it falls on you. Paul might
argue that if you're stupid enough to write any given program in any
language other than Perl, your stupid tax is all the extra time you wasted
when (and I quote) "[he] could do it in five lines of Perl", not to mention
the sound laughing-in-the-face he'll give you for it.
All we have to do is make sure that no stupid action in this world slips
by without an appropriate tax, and soon the world will be a whole lot less
stupid. :)
-----Carl
