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From: bruce@garfield.UUCP (Bruce Keats)
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Subject: Re: astrological software
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 21:03:40 EDT
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In article <496@utastro.UUCP> ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) writes:
>> > >Astrology is NOT a game, bozo.  Allow me to make an analogy.
>> > >{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
>> > 
>> > cannot.  Well, one could just as well argue that, while most automobile
>> > accidents can be explained, some small percentage cannot be.  Therefore, the
>> > ones that can't MUST be caused by aliens from another planet!
>> > 						ihnp4!wuphys!mff
>> 
>> AHA!  At last the truth is out!  All of those space aliens we work with are
>> the cause of auto accidents, in an insidious plot to indenture us all to
>> insurance companies!!!
>> 
>> John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
>
>Fool!!!!!!  You've got it exactly reversed.  The growth of technology
>inevitably leads to the complete takeover of civilization by insurance
>companies (which we will refer to as Liablocracy, or rule by those who
>control liability).  This is happening here *and has already happened
>throughout the galaxy*.  The aliens among us are part of a heroic
>resistance movement, vainly attempting to stem this process on one of
>last free planets IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
>
>So watch your step, or we'll all go home.
>-- 
>
>"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
> Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan
>                               ethan@utastro.UTEXAS.ARPA
>                               Department of Astronomy
>                               University of Texas

	Ah, yes, the insurance companies are out to get us all with
"kamikaze alien drivers".  They usually appear to be older people
and wear a hat with a feather in it (the other components of the uniform
vary with planet and insurance company (Marlin Perkin is typical of
Mutual of Omaha)).