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Re: What it is llike to be a drug cop
2003-06-26 16:43:11
In article <3EFB236F.6080806@yahoo.com> Brother Nate
>Hempman wrote: >> Imagine, knowing from day one that what you are doing will not have any >> effect on the drug trade. After over eight decades of ever more draconian >> laws, and hundreds of thousands of cops put on the job solely to "stop >> drugs", nothing has really changed. >Imagine being a barber, knowing that no matter how much hair >you cut you're inevitably just going to have to cut it again >sooner or later. You collect your paycheck from day to day >knowing that there will never be an end to your "War on Long >Hair". Bad analogy. The barber doesn't chase down and cut the hair of unwilling customers. He doesn't throw people in jail or fine them if they want to grow their hair long or have it unkempt. He only cuts the hair of those people who want him to cut their hair (except in the case of small children, of course). -Pete Zakel (phz@seeheader.nospam) "The Feynman problem solving algorithm: 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer" -Murray Gell-mann in the New York Times
2003-06-27 05:18:14
"Pete nospam Zakel" news:3efb850f$1@news.cadence.com... > > "The Feynman problem solving algorithm: > > 1) Write down the problem > 2) Think real hard > 3) Write down the answer" You forgot a historic Feynman ingredient. When stuck on step 2, take some mushrooms, smoke some pot and visualize. Then you come up with the three dimensional solution to nuclear thermodynamics.
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