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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:19:14 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Russell Turpin wrote:

> You seem not to know what a "poor man's divorce" is.

I know very little in general. I hope you can excuse me for that.

> It is an old term, from the time when divorce was
> difficult, but walking was easy, and identity was
> not so locked down as it is today. Not every widow
> had a dead husband.

Yeah, you could always run away, strangle your wife, your wife could
always poison you, scooby dooby doo. It wasn't the rule, and I don't feel 
like desintegrating into a nitpicking orgy. You win.
 
> >I'm seeing lack of innovation ..
> 
> That doesn't tell us anything except what is
> happening in Eugen Leitl's life. The more common

Yeah, I happen to live in a small hole, under the roots of an old oak 
tree. You don't, so innovation is a global phenomenon.

> observation is that the rate of change is increasing.
> Do you have any data that might persuade us that what
> you see is more telling than what others see?
> 
> >gerontocracy favors gerontocracy.
> 
> I would have thought that gerontocracy favors biotech
> research and plenty of young workers to pay taxes.

So thought I, but apparently all it favours is a lot of whining about good
old times, the inability of youngn's to pay for your pension and the
health insurance, and the generic influx of uncouth furriners, which must 
be stopped, Somehow.

> Note that the fertility rate doesn't result from
> decisions made by the old, but by the young. If we

Uh, I'm kinda aware of that.

> want more kids, we have to convince people who are
> in their twenties to become parents.

Now we're talking. Got a plan?


