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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8261)	9/6/2001 11:50:53 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (3) of 74559

Maurice - On lawyers versus engineers... I suppose you would like to comment on why there are so many engineers "debugging" what invariably works out to merely the difference between 1 and 0 in a binary world? So many <more> engineers, I should say. One would expect that with such precisely defined outcomes it would be far far easier to get such stuff right the first, or second, or third, or fourth time... forget about not needing to vote. It's not like there are more than two choices. This compared to the nuances of the English language when they are applied to retrospectively identifying intent. I agree with you that lawyers cost. Particularly those who spend time obfuscating intent to make the retrospective process so much more difficult. But so does pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL. And I suspect that the cost of the latter outnumbers the former. And that nobody's adding up this cost in the hedonic productivity adjustment factors. At least to me, which is my time. By the way, I am a former scriber of ones and zeros, now merely a CTRL-ALT-DELeter, and not a lawyer. John.

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