<OT> Re: list moderator losing perspective?

[Tony Alfrey]

Leon Goldstein wrote:

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>>
> Golly, I was just trying to elevate the cultural level of this thread, 
> and you have to drag in government.
> 
> I think we need to get rid of consumer taxes and bring back the stamp 
> act.  If people have to pay for a tax stamp on every piece of government 
> paper work they fill out, and thereby pay directly for the government 
> "services" they want, we can cut eliminate much of the need for consumer 
> taxes.

That would be good.  When you needed to pay for the sewer that your city 
installed, you could have a little coin box on the toilet to open the 
lid and stick stamps all over the tank, and the box would use embedded 
linux. <g>

> This is analogous to minimizing system overhead using Linux , 
> where resources are allocated to processes only when needed, rather than 
> the "other" OS that just consumes resources whether they are used or not.
> 
> (Whew, I  was really sweating how to make the obligatory Linux connection.)
> 

Pretty good; you used the word "linux" twice.  And I'm sure that by 
"other" you meant Solaris.


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