From: J Corbally (jcorb@iol.ie)
Date: Mon Sep 15 2003 - 17:07:28 MDT
I never tip flies, they usually end up ruining the soup.
James...
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:49:51 -0400
> >From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>Subject: Re: Automatic cameras thwart furtive fly-tippers
>Damien Broderick wrote:
> >>Steve Galinsky, who started importing the cameras from America in May,
> >>said: "We have seven on trial across the country. Easington Council in
> >>County Durham is using them to stop fly-tipping. We've had no prosecutions
> >>so far, but no fly-tipping either."
> >
> > We've discussed cow-tipping before on this list, but fly-tipping is a new
> > atrocity, totally disorienting the hapless creatures. I used to think
> > swatting, spraying and wing-tearing was bad enough, but this is a national
> > disgrace.
>I usually tip flies between 15% and 20%, which is not enough to knock them
>over. I don't do so furtively, either, as the flies have usually been
>tipped to my presence. Of course, tipping flies 20% may make them a bit
>tipsy, but this is only tipical.
>- --
>Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
>Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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