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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote: > >You're right, I think putting people's lives in danger so that my downloads > >don't get interrupted is definitely the way to go. > > (a) It's only in danger if they're careless, and > (b) It's Darwinism. You're just helping along natural selection. > > Not to mention > > (c) Porn makes the net go round. If people can't get their porn, they don't > need net access. If they don't need net access, we're all out of jobs. If > we're jobless, we're homeless and without food and we starve. Now if it > comes down to some idiot in a backhoe dying quickly in a blinding explosion > or ME dying slowly of starvation, I vote for the dude in the backhoe. I think that if you really want to make people think twice about digging then you should put a dollar amount on every outage and sue the construction company for the damage. Maybe this is an unrealistic proposition but I think it is definitely a better solution than putting the equivalent of a land mine around your wire. --Adam
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