Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: 31 Oct 2024 00:19:04 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net i6aArEpTHj6SUfdlEGat4gXvEBUFdZ1F9iZ46ym4PtEywHI94y Cancel-Lock: sha1:5eWmb8oGPNkW9RkoJ84WhgkywXY= sha256:bRNUXivHTnJJZs6MkkfvhQntYxtoYjFnUNmSqS0yGWE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:60257 On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:20:40 -0300, Shadow wrote: > On 30 Oct 2024 00:17:17 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >>On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:12:24 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> Or the economic system collapses and governments simply stop paying >>> civil servants, public sector workers and pensioners anything at all. >>> along with people on social security. >> >>The retirees on SS would be a bit upset. Many of them in the US have >>more guns than teeth. > > You mean they could sell their guns? Good idea, but who would > want to buy them? > []'s Hold that thought. https://wiki.lspace.org/Silver_Horde