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From: [email protected] (Omar Haneef '96)
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Subject: Re: A show of hands (ME!!, FUCKING ME!!)
Date: 15 Jul 1995 19:17:49 GMT
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.mpa ([email protected]) wrote:
> Omar Haneef '96 ([email protected]) wrote:
> > .mpa ([email protected]) wrote:

> > > > You can't mean this. The poor kid might have done a million good - even
> > > > great - things. The kid might have become William Gibson or something. And
> > > > you think because he wasn't lucky enough to swerve or smart enough not to
> > > > become a "cyberpunk" s/he deserves a life in bed?

> > > He chose, or his path was chosen for him. You wanna live forever or
> > > something? There is no right or wrong outcome just the one that happens.
> > > Noone said that doing any of these marginally sane things *makes*
> > > someone a cyberpunk.

> > > Noone deserves anything other than what they've got. They can want more
> > > and work or steal to get more but, as with anything in this life, there
> > > are no guarantees.

> > You will grant that driving under the influence - something that seems to be
> > paraded as some sort of cyberpunk virtue - will increase one's chances of
> > hurting themselves and other people. The risk, I am suggesting, is not worth
> > the thrill and any mood/stance that asserts the worthiness of such acts of
> > recklesness is not something I wish to encourage.

> I don't condone driving under the influence of anything: Cigarettes, cel
> phones, alcohol, drugs, Lysergic Acid, whatever. I don't even condone
> driving for that matter. Its not my business. But the thing is that there
> are going to be people who are going to do these things. I've done them,
> all of them (except the cel phone) and I'm not necessarily proud of it
> but it was the right thing to do at the time, or do I thought.

> Since people are going to do these things the only solution for me is to
> make sure I'm out of their way if our paths meet. If I've behaved
> impeccably and my karma works out I'll live another day. If I haven't
> then I could be dead. The key to any "bad" situation is to Not Be
> There(tm) when the shit hits the fan and to have an umbrella for when it
> does.

Which is to ignore the point: you want to increase the chances of your
friends keeping their limbs in tact. I mean, as a basic philosophy, at
least recognize that endangering them is not a Good Thing (tm).

> > > Let your lovelight shine on you crazy diamond.

> > The light went out, and MPA started to grind...

> Gawd, Is that a quote from the artist formerly known as Prince?

> In any event you need a metaphorical upgrade. Right now I think your
> processor's working at the level of an IBM3278 markII (dumb) terminal.

> Or are you just a WANG?

Sorry if my rock metaphors aren't up to par when compared with your geek
computer metaphors.

> .mpa
> --
> -----------Experiential Engineering for an Interesting Tomorrow-----------
> Come for the peace of him who is dead,
> come, oh treasure of serenity and peace!
> (The Liberation of Primal Man)

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