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To: marcos who wrote (1394)	5/2/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: Level Head	Respond to of 3795

Dear marcos, I'm glad you saw that. The Enter never thoughted my mind. I was thinking about a scene from the short story "Lifeline", which was Robert Heinlein's first published work. Dr. Hugo Pinero is in court; it seems that a major company has hired a bunch of "scientists" to discredit his invention, which could make the company obsolete. The attorney for the company requests that the details of the invention be handed over to his company's team of scientists (who have been antagonizing Pinero for quite some time) so that they can pronounce it valid or not. His response (from my imperfect memory): "This invention of mine cannot be entrusted to fools and quacks", Pinero said, waving his hand at the assembled scientists and attorneys, "as these good people would surely agree." Level Head