Edward Dolan
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Wilson wrote:
>
>> Consider sky diving. If you land safely it isn't particularly
>> dangerous. If you don't land safely it can be extremely dangerous.
>> There's little middle ground for other outcomes.
>
> You can say the same about transatlantic air travel: if the airliner
> crashes into the sea then your chances are not good (!), but that's not
> enough reason to state that transatlantic air travel is dangerous.
You would not get me in an airplane for all the tea in China. It is certain
death to get off of terra firma. Have you never heard of the law of gravity?
By the way, this is a law that has never been repealed and is in full force
as it has been from the beginning of time.
>> You consider the safety ramifications and then you take your chances.
>
> And whether to take the chances is based on the overall odds, not the
> worst case outcome.
>
> Pete.
Pete, you are the worst case outcome that ARBR has ever known. You are an
overall oddball to say the least. Please go **** yourself and leave us
sensible types alone.
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
What a totally ****ed up signature! Please note my humble and modest
signature by comparison.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
news:6b4qgkF39fnjmU1@mid.individual.net...
> Wilson wrote:
>
>> Consider sky diving. If you land safely it isn't particularly
>> dangerous. If you don't land safely it can be extremely dangerous.
>> There's little middle ground for other outcomes.
>
> You can say the same about transatlantic air travel: if the airliner
> crashes into the sea then your chances are not good (!), but that's not
> enough reason to state that transatlantic air travel is dangerous.
You would not get me in an airplane for all the tea in China. It is certain
death to get off of terra firma. Have you never heard of the law of gravity?
By the way, this is a law that has never been repealed and is in full force
as it has been from the beginning of time.
>> You consider the safety ramifications and then you take your chances.
>
> And whether to take the chances is based on the overall odds, not the
> worst case outcome.
>
> Pete.
Pete, you are the worst case outcome that ARBR has ever known. You are an
overall oddball to say the least. Please go **** yourself and leave us
sensible types alone.
> Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
> Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
> Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
> net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
What a totally ****ed up signature! Please note my humble and modest
signature by comparison.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota