8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
3:44 p.m.
Well, you may be onto something there. I've never been considered either a
liberal or a Democrat, and since the 1960 election, I've never voted for a
Democrat except for Al Gore. That was not a vote FOR the Democrat, BTW.
more below ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dittman" <dittman(a)dittman.net>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: China bans toxic American computer junk
I don't support Califorism either. In fact, the only bumper sticker I've
ever
carried around on my car said, "Don't Californicate Colorado." The
West-coast notion that you can legislate good sense is hopefully dead there,
though it lives on here. I'm hoping something miraculous happens here pretty
soon. Unfortunately we get 2 Californians in for every one that leaves to go
back there. Back in the '50's it was the Texans. I don't know which is
worse.
> > >That's called supply & demand.
> >
> You wouldn't say that if it had been YOUR money, either wasted on the
excesses
> of the "free-market-captialism"
practiced by the power-middle-men, who
really
> produced nothing other than waste and really did
nothing but steal, first
from
their victims,
and later from their own help.
I haven't been running around for years voting against power
plants. I also refuse to live in California, which is over-
populated anyway. The constant water shortage is a good example.
> If it's the LEFT coast, you must be in the South. If you were from the
North,
> the West coast would be the Right coast, and the
East coast would be the
Wrong
> coast, Right? You're right about the stupid
consumption habits. It's the
> result of lower rates per kwh for more kwh's. If 10x the amount of power
cost
> 10^10 as much people would behave differently.
I'd get behind a rate
schedule
> that reflected n^(n^2) rates so the megacorp that
uses 1000 times as much
> power as the little homeowner would have to pay 10^1000 as much for every
kwh
he uses.
I'd also get behind that for gasoline rationing.
Most of the people I know call California the left coast, both in
the north and south (except for the liberals).
--
Eric Dittman
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