Hi Anne, I'm pretty sure the Judge would go as far as allowing that it was a praiseworthy murder in the event mouse_brain failed to recover from injuries. Bucks County Judges though in a suburban County are not your garden variety back woods specials. On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > <smiling> I wonder if a court would take extreme uselessness and > inconvenience and poor work time as good reason for your secretaries > actions in doing bodily harm to the nincompoop who suggested changing > from Emacs to MSWord! I think that a judge might just do that! > > <grinning> Ann P. > Emacs user and proud of it! > > >>>>> "Jude" == Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> writes: > > Jude> Unless you can run x, wordperfect on linux is useless. > Jude> There's no text interface available for that, thank corel > Jude> corporation for that wise decission. Secretaries where I > Jude> worked had emacs running and used it as their only > Jude> wordprocessor and when a very stupid employee suggested to > Jude> them they upgrade to microsoft word, he got several serious > Jude> offers for bodily injury in response. Needless to say, that > Jude> employee didn't do that again. > > > > > > Jude> _______________________________________________ Speakup > Jude> mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Jude> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >