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To: Dayuhan who wrote (98181)5/13/2003 9:45:39 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
> the only painless way to eat a porcupine is to skin it first.

Skining a porcupine may be painful. The way it is eaten is to start biting at its soft underbelly and fold the thorns back onto itself.

> At a certain point we may have no choice but to let go and live with what we get

Of there will be such a point. The problem is how to postpone this point far enough into the future to have boot straped the proper process. I can't see how this can be done in less than 10 years. If we can't do that, then we have already failed.