On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, The Chazman wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
Kind of like "I would tax all the people who stand in water....oh, damn".
:) If you have no I idea what I am talking about think Monty Python:FS.
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