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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: astrological software
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 10:54:18 EDT
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> > >Astrology is NOT a game, bozo.  Allow me to make an analogy.
> > >{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
> > 
> > cannot.  Well, one could just as well argue that, while most automobile
> > accidents can be explained, some small percentage cannot be.  Therefore, the
> > ones that can't MUST be caused by aliens from another planet!
> > 						ihnp4!wuphys!mff
> 
> AHA!  At last the truth is out!  All of those space aliens we work with are
> the cause of auto accidents, in an insidious plot to indenture us all to
> insurance companies!!!
> 
> John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101

Fool!!!!!!  You've got it exactly reversed.  The growth of technology
inevitably leads to the complete takeover of civilization by insurance
companies (which we will refer to as Liablocracy, or rule by those who
control liability).  This is happening here *and has already happened
throughout the galaxy*.  The aliens among us are part of a heroic
resistance movement, vainly attempting to stem this process on one of
last free planets IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

So watch your step, or we'll all go home.
-- 

"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
                               ethan@utastro.UTEXAS.ARPA
                               Department of Astronomy
                               University of Texas