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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25040)11/5/2002 7:22:57 PM
From: Stock Farmer  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
As with everything in our modern lives, intelligent management is the key. Just as cellphones save lives when used in moving cars, but their use must be intelligently managed, guns save lives by their intelligent management. So does asbestos.

Totally agree.

The problem however is that "intelligent management" clause. For example, normally I'd have no problem with CDMA induced gene pool cleansing if it happened all by itself against concrete bridge abutments with nobody else around.

However that's not how it works, usually.

And for every cell phone that has saved life while used in a moving car, I'd be willing to bet that five lives have suffered for pixelated photons jingling to remind hubby to pick up a pint of milk and a bag of crisps on the way home.

Some things bring many benefits to society. Like CDMA and Qualcomm. And I do realize that the only way to count Qualcomm's profits is to tot up the benefits with disregard to their full cost.

But even if you choose to think that is a healthy point of view (and I respect your right to do so), from where I stand it's surely not necessarily the best way to manage a productive society. Or a portfolio. Or an animal farm, for that matter :o)

John
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