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From: sblair@synoptics.com (Steven Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Hagbard's death (was Re: frontier justice
Message-ID: <1990Oct6.113606@synoptics.com>
Date: 6 Oct 90 18:36:06 GMT
References: <16426@know.pws.bull.com> <21450:Oct605:25:0190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Oct6.181622.18274@lavaca.uh.edu>
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In article <1990Oct6.181622.18274@lavaca.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
(J. Eric Townsend) writes:
|> In article <21450:Oct605:25:0190@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
|> >Do we really know who torched Hagbard? I guessed from the book that
he
|> >had killed himself.
|> 
|> I've always thought that death by burning is the preferred method
|> of suicide for computer geeks.
|> 
|> Anybody know the stats for "preferrred methos of suicide"?  I would
|> assume that self-immolation (sic?) is waaaay down on the list.
|> 

Many I know who are "geeks" or whatever we call ourselves, would
prefer electrocution. Ultimate meeting/merging with the "machine",
or the ultimate I/O statement!! ;>


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