On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:15, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:02:09AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Hal Vaughan wrote: Alchemists had three generally accepted [snip] > > Is there a parallel to alchemy in the modern world? > > aids research, and cancer research, to name a few. the moment > anybody thinks they've got a cure, they'll disappear so their > bosses will be able to keep the house in the hamptons. too big a > business, by now, to be shut down by actual success.
Do you have any proof of this illogical assertion? Logic: people are going to be getting cancer for a long, long time, so the money made from all those sick people will be magnatudes greater than any money recieved, from say, research grants. Besides, there's always something else to cure... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]