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On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 07:38:12PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote: > In aviation and probably the power industry, there is sense (and a reality) > that lives and property are at stake. While the same may soon be true of > the internet, there is still a perception that no one dies if the 'internet > is down', and no property is destroyed though income is certainly lost. So > there is no compelling need to force people to cooperate. So, if my company loses $5M because the net falls over, and I get fired, and end up on the street, having lost my house, family, dog, pickup truck, and beer, that's not important enough to prevent? Got it now. > Even the FAA's enforcement is for the most part pretty lassiz faire. It is > well known in aviation circles that FAA regulations are "written in blood", > by analyzing accidents and developing a set of rules to avoid them. Failure > to follow the rules may result in your own death, and possibly others. > Death is a pretty severe penalty. Many FAA enforcement actions are > 'post-crash'. The rules aren't there to satisfy the ego of a bureaucrat, > and the penalties are enforced more harshly by nature than by the FAA. Tell it to Bob Hoover... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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