> > If you're going to legislate against the *ability* to be irresponsible, well, we'd all be in jail for life, except that the no one could possibly manage to write down all the resulting laws before the heat death of the universe.
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> Just as a side note, "the heat-death of the universe" is a really cool phrase. It's fun to say, and it makes you sound all intellectual and stuff. Just try dropping it into ordinary conversation, and watch the results!
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> - - - Example 1 - - -
> Betty: How was your day at work?
> Bob: d00d it was SUCKS!!!
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> - - - Example 2 - - -
> Betty: How was your day at work?
> Bob: It was like the heat-death of the universe.
>
> See how smart Bob sounds in example 2? Much smarter than he sounds in example 1, and all because of the phrase "the heat-death of the universe!" And if you respond to this special offer, the phrase "the heat-death of the universe" can be YOURS for only three easy payments of $39.95! But wait, there's more! We'll also throw in a monogrammed plaque proclaiming YOU - yes, YOU! - an OFFICIAL, HONORARY, NO-STRINGS-ATTACHED, SLIPPERY-WHEN-WET rocket surgeon! Order today!
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SO YOU MIGHT BE A PHYSICS MAJOR...
If you avoid doing anything because you don't want to contribute to the eventual "heat-death of the universe".

Yeah, you're right. That IS a pretty cool phrase. It's only slightly less cool than saying, by way of random example, that you've been working overtime, and now your $#@! bus home is late, and at this point it'd be faster "waiting for continental drift to move you to your destination". Now that was a really handy turn of phrase, too. Too bad, then, that continental drift doesn't exist. :-) Does anyone remember a Sherwin-Williams paint logo of a spinning earth globe, which had colourful splotches of wet paint to artfully represent the continents? I don't; it must have been before my time. They probably changed the logo 'cause apparently folks were calling it "Continental Drip".

Wolf "Connecting threads together with a billion Strings and" spirit"edly wondering why Brunnen-G has been studying Quantum Field Theory"