Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site bcsaic.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!douglas From: douglas@bcsaic.UUCP (douglas schuler) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: a gedanken experiment Message-ID: <325@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 13:02:03 EDT Article-I.D.: bcsaic.325 Posted: Fri Oct 4 13:02:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 08:57:08 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 20 Suppose there were enough food to feed the entire world... How would we distribute it so nobody went hungry? Before you go off (like so many fuzzy headed social science types) half-cocked, inventing ridiculous pricing, distributing, and marketing schemes, let me tell you that I have calculated (here, on the back of this envelope) that it is indeed quite possible to distribute the food in an orderly fashion without resorting to complicated methods. WHAT?? There already IS enough food in the world?!? What about my orderly scheme?!?!? -- ** MY VIEWS MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF THE BOEING CORPORATION ** Doug Schuler (206) 763-5295 {allegra,ihnp4,decvax}uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!douglas uw-june!bcsaic!douglas@washington.arpa Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com