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Subject: 
Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 10 May 2001 12:36:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Sandlin writes:
> 
> > > Why don't you do what the Soviets did in Murmansk?  To run
> > > the power grid, they hooked up the nuclear submarines to the
> > > grid to keep the power stable and affordable.
> 
> > Oh sure, I'll just go right out and hook up my nuclear sub. Oh wait, I don't
> > own one.
> 
>  Are you crazy?  The 2nd Amendment guarantees that you can have one!
> What's wrong with you?!  8^)

It doesn't guarantee that you can afford one...merely that _if_ you can, then
it's legal to own.

> > Guess I'll just keep bending over for the power company.
> 
>  "Let me control the power supply, and I don't care who makes the laws."

"Who runs Bartertown?"

Chris



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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Hence the 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) Are you crazy? The 2nd Amendment guarantees that you can have one! What's wrong with you?! 8^) (...) "Let me control the power supply, and I don't care who makes the laws." Dave! (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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