Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akpcb!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: poor starving people Message-ID: <160@usl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 19:01:31 EST Article-I.D.: usl.160 Posted: Wed Nov 28 19:01:31 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 19:16:17 EST References: <642@amd.UUCP> <589@amdahl.UUCP>, <306@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA Lines: 23 This is a reply to the simple&neat example by Mr. Ngai (I live in the desert, you live in the lake, etc) Well, time to think business!! Nobody has obliged or somehow made you to give water. In most cases (see superpowers) help given represents a small fraction of the return (even from Ethiopia -- you never know, strategic placement, oil, etc). So in any case it is NOT good will or charity, but simply investment (see the European Truman Doctrine, Marshal Plan, etc of WW2 era). ---- Have Fun Spiros Triantafyllopoulos Computer Science Department University of Southwestern Louisiana sigma@usl PS: you can always SELL the water, after donating a little in the beginning. It would cost the same, but you are guaranteed a lot in the future (FLAME if you didn"t get it)