On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:37:28 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:


Alarming how close this is coming to "majik," where unending
wealth is created from nothing simply by the initiates chanting
arcane and incomprehensible words and phrases.

It's OK with me if I can get one of those jobs myself. I can speak Arcane
with a little practice.
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I forgot to add the part about conducting periodic human
sacrifices...


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).