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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!news-in.tiac.net!posterchild!news@tiac.net From: tarbet@swaa.com (Margaret Tarbet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FBSD and EISA machines Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:20:43 GMT Organization: Software Art & Architecture Incorporated Lines: 20 Message-ID: <324ba19a.2103572@news.tiac.net> References: <324ac5e5.4422121@news.tiac.net> <324B08B6.695678E2@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: tarbet@swaa.com NNTP-Posting-Host: momcat.tiac.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 Thanks, both. It's good to know that either i misread or the original writer was wrong. Relieves the mind. :-) "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >P.S. That's an inhumanely long signature you have there. :) Yeh, i sorta have to apologise for it. I don't use it often, but the experiment to which Milgram refers has such profound implications for the health of our society that it seems to me it should be more widely known than it (now) is. It explains an enormous amount about things as diverse as the infamous Kitty Genovese murder, pervasive corruption in business, and the War on Drugs. In fact, it paints such a scary picture of how easily some subset of the US government could acquire and maintain totalitarian control over us that now such experiments have, in effect, been banned! (Which puts me in mind of Beeblebrox's glasses that go opaque when danger threatens...if you can't see disaster coming, then you're safe, right? :-< )