<p dir="ltr">The question is, which one of you engineers is gonna design a football helmet that cuts the CTE rate in half and make a cool billion? </p>
<p dir="ltr">Liberal capitalism.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 20, 2015 7:34 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> extropy-chat [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rafal Smigrodzki<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 20, 2015 3:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] former deceased nfl players...<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:21 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>>…</span><span style="color:#1f497d">Every time we buy a ticket to a pro football game, every time we patronize a college bowl game or even the local high school team, we encourage a sport for which we now have pleeeeenty of evidence wrecks their brains, plenty. Ja I know it is a fun sport to watch. But it is bad news, very bad news. If we participate at any level, we have helped these galoots do this to themselves.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>>…</span><span style="color:#1f497d">Go ahead, I am prepared to have my ass kicked, and I probably deserve it. But football wrecks brains, and our society causes football. So where is the collective guilt?</span><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">### I'll one-up you on that: They say that transmitting one megabyte of data over the internet equals a pound of coal (or something - exact numbers are for bores). There is a miner or trucker or some other poor schlub killed for every couple gigawatts that are used to push these bytes between us. So, Spike, you just callously contributed, through your internet and electricity demand, to the death on an innocent blue-collar worker! And he has children, who are now crying inconsolably!!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Are you feeling guilty yet? :)<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Rafał<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">{8^D<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">HAH got ya Rafal! My family is from coal country. I am practically made of coal. Or rather I am chemically very similar to coal. For every KW I devour computing and sending email, I create JOBS for poor schlubs and truckers and such, which feeds their families! So I am saving them from a horrifying death of starvation and the hopeless heartbreak of unemployment, which often results in alcoholism and suicide. I helped prevent this, just by using electricity.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So no, I am not feeling guilty, on the contrary. I am feeling a warm fuzzy from a job well done.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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