Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality Message-ID: <11560@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 5 Sep 90 13:53:12 GMT References: <11503@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <82778@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <11521@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Sep3.182712.2260@world.std.com> <11548@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 22 In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) tries to draw a comparison with Soviet publication policies and concludes with: >Food for thought? Yes, and in the Soviet Union, incidents of violent crime are significantly lower than in the US, the rate of deaths from heart disease are much lower, and the literacy rate is higher than here. A second course of the same inane "food for thought." ( Explanation for the sarcasm-impaired: In general, just because it happens in the Soviet Union doesn't automatically mean it is undesireable, as implied by Barry's reference, even if it were a valid comparison in the current context; cause and (implied) effect are much more complicated than such statements suggests.) -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf