[ExI] abandoning hope

Nymph0 nymphomation at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:04:22 UTC 2007


On 31/10/2007, Spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> > bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of BillK
> ...
> >
> > The art of queuing is gradually breaking down in the UK as society is
> > becoming more anarchic with many foreign people and youngsters brought
> > up in an 'anything goes' environment.
> >
> > BillK
>
> Ja. But the art of queuing should break down.  If there are many customers
> in line anywhere, the merchant needs to open additional registers.  If they
> haven't enough proles working the registers to keep the lines short, the
> customers will take their trade elsewhere, as they should.  Time is valuable
> stuff.  If one sees anywhere people spending a bunch of time in the queue,
> that is a pathological market condition in need of a market remedy, a severe
> remedy if necessary.

These days we just have a riot:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=44366&in_page_id=34
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article101943.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2051626,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4252421.stm

o_O

Heavy splashings,
Thee Nymphomation

I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them,
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens



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