Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:20506 sci.misc:5080 soc.college:8233 soc.misc:2251 rec.aviation:36887 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.misc,soc.college,soc.misc,rec.aviation Subject: Re: SORRY Message-ID: <1991May30.025825.29490@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: 30 May 91 02:58:25 GMT References: Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Lines: 39 In article callahan@cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan) writes: >In article <12594@uwm.edu> iluvls@convex.csd.uwm.edu (James E Parks) writes: >> [profuse apologies, ending with:] >> >> P.S. >> >> I am all for Death to DAVE RHODES > >This is the most pathetic thing I've seen in my life. My translation reads: >"I'm very sorry, but I sure hope they get that other guy who put me up to it." >Is there no longer any such thing as taking personal responsibility? I'm >willing to forgive purely moronic behavior, but not when it has this sort >of sentiment tacked on to the end. > Agreed. Was Dave Rhodes the person who put him up to it, or was Dave Rhodes the person who publicly expressed disapproval when the con game message appeared? At any rate, if James Parks really "did not mean to defraud anybody" (as he said in his apology), then his knowledge of mathematics is sadly deficient. All pyramid schemes fail because they require impossibly large numbers of people, often exceeding the population of the earth after ten or fewer steps. My message to James Parks would be this: Until you learn that there is no honest way of getting something for nothing, you will be a willing victim of every con game that comes along. -- ------------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs The University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------