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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Wasting Time
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 11:50:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 11:50:11 1984
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>  >I really don't think they need to do a study on this unless all they
>  >want to do is waste their money. I can think of two VERY obvious reasons
>  >why flaming is so prevalent on a computer.
>
>Galileo shouldn't have wasted his time studying falling bodies.  As
>Aristotle pointed out it's obvious that a ten kilo weight falls
>ten times as fast as a one kilo weight.
>
>                                              William Hughes

Yah, the laws of physics are important and all, but denying studies of
flaming could cause TRULY frightening ignorance.  I'm sure the CMU
researchers will be right up there will Leonardo and Socrates in no time.

                        "Nun-beating? Good Lord, man, I can't condone THAT!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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