[TriLUG] OT: great quote for SCO
Mike Mueller
linux-support at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 11 10:27:34 EDT 2003
On Thursday 11 September 2003 08:58, gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:
> "What comes of litigation? Poverty and degredation to any community that
> will encourage it. Will it build cities, open farms, build railroads, erect
> telegraph lines and improve a country? It will not; but it will bring any
> community to ruin. It draws hundreds of men within the circle of its
> influence, who crowd the court rooms and spend days and weeks and months of
> their precious time for naught, time that should be employed in getting
> lumber from the canyons, in building houses and in providing comfortable
> means of subsistence for their families. Does it make peaceable, honest,
> and industrious citizens? It does not, but it engenders strife and habits
> of intemperance and idleness. Instead of crime being lessened by its
> influence, it only helps to swell the dark stream." - Remarks by Brigham
> Young, in the Bowery, in G.S.L. City, August 12th, 1866. REPORTED BY G. D.
> WATT. 11:257
Exclusive advice to the community, no doubt. Nevertheless Watt gets +5
Insightful. It may be a fortelling to the ascendency of Court TV (shame on
all of us - you know you watched OJ). In the list of fruitful activities can
we add "build software"?
--
Mike Mueller
324881 (08/20/2003)
Make clockwise circles on the floor with your right foot; now, without
looking at your foot, use the index finger on your right hand to draw the
number "6" in the air
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