17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 6:01 PM -0500 on 11/4/98, Jim Choate wrote, from the bowels of my killfile:
They're bound by economics and nothing else, not even the government cats.
Amen. A government is just another economic actor. A very large economic actor with lots of guns and a monopoly on force, but an economic actor nonetheless. Reality is not optional. Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'