I'm going to revert to my "social engineering sucks" stance. If you don't
want to allow shocks, find a way to say so, rather than engaging in
dubious dodges to discourage people from doing something legal.
KeS
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, John J. Stimson-III wrote:
> > I don't see how all this machination achieves its goal; it just seems like a
> > communist way (from each according to his means...) way of everyone getting
> > good shocks, rather than paying for their own.
>
> It's not Communistic, but rather, charitable in a capitalist way --
> the supplier of the shocks does so voluntarily, to achieve a benefit
> for himself. He can stop selling used shocks at discount at any time
> that he feels that it is no longer a benefit.
>
> Yes, it would be annoying to swap the same set of shocks backs and
> forth at every event between the class leaders. With luck, one of
> them will become fed up with the practice, get a clue, and sell the
> shocks on eBay, showing up at the next event with more reasonably
> priced shocks.
>
> --
>
> john@idsfa.net John Stimson
> http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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