HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: early@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Early)
Subject: New Book
Keywords: Religion, Suicide, African Americans
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Distribution: w
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:00:36 GMT

Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community
by Kevin E. Early
Forewards by Ronald L. Akers and Robert Davis

Suicide among African Americans occurs at about half the
rate with which it occurs among white Americans.  Why is the
black rate of suicide so much lower, particularly when one
considers the effects of racism and other socio-economic
factors on African Americans?  One answer that has been
offered is that churches within the African-American
community have a greater influence then among white Americans
and that they provide amelioration of social forces that
would otherwise lead to suicide.

To date no other book has provided an in-depth ethnographic
study of the buffering effect of the black church against
suicide.  Findings from this book indicate that there is a 
consensus within the black community in terms of its attitudes
and beliefs toward suicide.  This important book will be 
invaluable to sociologists and others studying contemporary
race relations and social problems.

Publisher:  Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT
ISBN:  0-313-28470-9

-- 
Kevin E. Early                     Tel.:    313-370-2961
Assistant Professor of Sociology   e-mail:  early@vela.acs.oakland.edu   
Department of Sociology                     early@argo.acs.oakland.edu
Oakland University                 FAX:     313-370-4280
Newsgroups: alt.religion.all-worlds
From: pwhite@ems.cdc.com (Peter White)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.all-worlds
Subject: Re: nothing really here yet, just checking
Date: 12 Jan 93 15:20:11 GMT
Reply-To: pwhite@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of Ceridian

In article <16B53CEC9.S927110@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU>, S927110@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU writes:
|> I guess I will be the first to add a letter to this group.  I go to an AWESOME
|> church.  Write me!
|>  
|>  
What kind?

What makes it awesome?
-- 
Peter White
disclaimer: None of what is written necessarily reflects 
     			a view of my company.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.all-worlds
Subject: nothing really here yet, just checking
From: S927110@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:42:17 CST
Organization: UM ST. LOUIS
NNTP-Posting-Host: umslvma.umsl.edu

I guess I will be the first to add a letter to this group.  I go to an AWESOME
church.  Write me!
 
 
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.alien.visitors
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:22:06 GMT


Hey folks. I was intrigued by Winstons description of the Greys as
collective types, very un-individualistic. And i started thinking about
how often alien civilizations are depicted in this manner. Think back
to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and then come forward to the
Borg on star trek. Very frequently the aliens are depicted as being
hard working collectivists, lacking in emotion and individuality
but being very efficient.

Why is this? Is it because Americans like to affirm themselves as being
different and individualistic? Is it because we (as a society) wish that
we were more collectivistic? Or is it because this collectivism is
very frightening to our individualistic mentalities?

How come we see so few alien races that are more wasteful, more selfish,
and less able to accomplish anything than modern beaurocratic america?
are drugs legal on alien worlds? why am i ranting like this instead 
of working?


Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: chawla@wam.umd.edu (Jay Paul Chawla)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:17:33 GMT

Kevin L. McBride writes:
>chawla@wam.umd.edu (Jay Paul Chawla) . . .
>
>> ...What a loser!...
>
>> and is apparently inert.)

Now that it seems Higashimori may have become reactive after all.  This
means that God finally has a drummer, although not a very good one, and
it looks like God's new album, tentatively titled either "God Sings _The
Beatles_" or "I Already Let You Kill Me Once, What More Do I Need To Do
To Make You People Forgive Me", is a "go".  A representative of Columbia
Records says, "The Father is a basso profundo and none of Him have much
talent, but that's not a problem.  When we play back God's performances
at quadruple speed, they sound okay, and the Father really begins to
sound a little like John, although for the cover photo we have him made
up to look like Paul."

Now this is JC (not that JC) speaking.  I think it is wonderful that
God has found a new outlet for his creative energies.

Here's hoping it works out better this time,
Jay
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
In-reply-to: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu's message of 8 Jan 93 18:17:20 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
	<RSHOLMES.93Jan5135427@rodan.syr.EDU>
	<mcirvin.726517040@husc.harvard.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 23:33:46 EST

In article <mcirvin.726517040@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:

>rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:
>
>>In article <1993Jan5.033137.15020@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>
>>Edible quarks.
>
>They are edible.  Both kinds. 

That's what THEY would like you to believe. They even claim quarks
come in six (not just two) flavors. BUT -- three out of the six
flavors decompose before you get a chance to eat them. No one even
makes the sixth flavor. And the remaining two?  THEY BOTH TASTE LIKE
COTTAGE CHEESE.

Six flavors that all taste alike! There's holes in this story big
enough to drive a Chevy through. I think they're slipping us Bohr
atoms and lying through their teeth, that's what I think.

--
- Rich Holmes
"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
like this." -- Douglas Adams
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
Subject: packing on the bozons
Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 06:23:17 GMT

So, like, when did Chaka Kahn (sp?) start mutating into a whale?

She's on Letterman right now and she sounds real good, but I can't
believe how *big* she's become.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.folklore.computers,alt.non.sequitur
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: SCHWAibo returns
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:12:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.020240.17661@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>
>i'd like to make a late entry (sorry, it had to be done) and proclaim myself:
>
>			asciibo!

Thought you were "bahibo". I stand corrected.

In any case, I'm the EBCDICibo, so there.

mdw
-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern computer geek." --Tom Payne
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:44:10 GMT

chawla@wam.umd.edu (Jay Paul Chawla) writes:

>What a loser!  I bet you don't understand the Trinity either.

>(True Fact: scientists have discovered a fourth member of the Trinity.
>The fourth member is called Higashimori in honor of its discoverer,
>and is apparently inert.)

You know, these theories get less and less elegant as the gauge group grows. 
-- 
Matt McIrvin         I read Usenet just for the	tab damage!
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: tedr@athena.cs.uga.edu (Ted Kalivoda)
Subject: Losing my Religion
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
Organization: University of Georgia - UCNS
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:41:19 GMT

That's me in the corner, and there goes my kibology, thank the most perfect
being that is necessarily existent that I never new that dog.

Respectfully,

T. Kalivoda
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:35:27 GMT

> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>
>>Very frequently the aliens are depicted as being
>>hard working collectivists, lacking in emotion and individuality
>>but being very efficient.
>>Why is this? Is it because Americans like to affirm themselves as being
......

>
>Because then the writers don't have to make up as many characters.
>

BINGO@! You have won the PRIZE, which consists of an orange and a carton
of generic cigarettes. Just send a $20 shipping and handling fee,
plus $1.28 postage, to me to collect your prize.

-rob
holy high church of really concerned funky people
charlootesviulle 22999
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:17:20 GMT

rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>In article <1993Jan5.033137.15020@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:

>Edible quarks.

They are edible.  Both kinds. 

-- 
Matt McIrvin         I read Usenet just for the	tab damage!
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From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:49:54 GMT

mch@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mike C Holderness) writes:

[describing the Posadist platform-- Posadists reason that:]

>* There are billions and billions of worlds in the Cosmos
>* Some of these must statistically have developed intelligent life
>* Some of _these_ must statistically have achieved advanced socialism
>* Advanced socialism, not entailing the waste of resources represented
>   by the extraction of surplus value from the capitalist system, must
>   be technologically more advanced than capitalism
>* Therefore [steps omitted] the vanguard of the revolution is up there in 
>   the sky, making "beep, beep" noises.

>I am not making this up. I'm not that inventive -- I'm a reporter by trade!
>I have _met_ these people (though quite what the significance of saying 
>this, in this news-group, is, escapes me).

Frankly, if I were a Trotskyist, I'd probably find this not at all
unreasonable.  It reminds me very much of arguments used by some
SETI proponents that if we *don't* find any "beep, beep" noises it
implies ominous things about the probability of species suicide.
Also of Ray Bradbury's poetic conviction that Christianity prevails
throughout the universe.

Of course, replace "advanced socialism" by "Kibology" and the whole
argument becomes airtight.  Earth is the last bastion of Usenet--
the rest of the galaxy has upgraded to HappyNet!  Von Neumann machines
(Self-Producing Omni-Testers, or SPOTs) are waiting patiently in the
asteroid belt for us to reach a level of comparative Kibology at which
we may finally be Allowed.  When enough of us pay attention to our
allotted Planetary Kibo, they'll make themselves known, sending out
rmgroups from carefully selected nexi via sophisticated microwave
techniques.  If we don't, they'll be very sad, and they'll cry!
 
-- 
Matt McIrvin         I read Usenet just for the	tab damage!
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,gnu.misc.discuss
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Short Sameful Confsfession
Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:08:05 GMT

[]
	I silled Richard M. Stallman today.  

						-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Short Shameful Confession
Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:20:16 GMT

[]
	I offered David Letterman $69 million.




	For his suits.
							-- K.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: SCHWAibo returns
From: hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Anthony 'SCHWAibo' Hobbs)
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:36:03 NZST
Organization: NCCOKM, New Zealand
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

I wanna know how in the name of "Bob" did John "Bibo" Winston win the "Best
New ibo" award. That little statue of Spot was MINE BY RIGHT!!!
-- 
			Anthony "SCHWAibo" Hobbs

hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz			DISCLAIMER: Fnord.
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes)
Subject: Re: Welcome, Oracle Corp.
In-reply-to: kibo@world.std.com's message of Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:35:02 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:52:34 EST

In article <C0r22F.Aq5@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:

>[]
>	I'd like to thank Oracle Corporation for adding
>alt.religion.kibology to their news feed.  I'm a big fan of Larry
>Ellison, and I've got every book he's written, including "A Boy And His
>Dog" which gets kind of gross at the end where they eat the girl but
>still Ellison is one of the most wicked awesome sci-fi authors there is.
>
>							-- K.
>

Ellison also wrote "The Invisible Man" a really cool book that was
made into a movie with Chevy Chase and Kim Novak.

--
- Rich Holmes
"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of
accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave
like this." -- Douglas Adams
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: What new innovation, software or products do you want to see?
Date: 9 Jan 93 17:35:12 GMT
   du><RSHOLMES.93Jan5135427@rodan.syr.EDU><mcirvin.726517040@husc.harvard.edu> <RSHOLMES.93Jan8231800@rodan.syr.EDU>

rsholmes@rodan.syr.EDU (Rich Holmes) writes:

>That's what THEY would like you to believe. They even claim quarks
>come in six (not just two) flavors. BUT -- three out of the six
>flavors decompose before you get a chance to eat them. No one even
>makes the sixth flavor.

The fine folks at Fermilab MIGHT have, but they're not claiming anything. 
God only knows what's available in the cafeteria.  They've probably got
a whole PILE of top quarks right between the creamed chipped beef on
toast and the 60 GeV scalar particles.

>And the remaining two?  THEY BOTH TASTE LIKE
>COTTAGE CHEESE.

Actually, they both taste like "quark," the dessert item found in Germany.

>Six flavors that all taste alike! There's holes in this story big
>enough to drive a Chevy through. I think they're slipping us Bohr
>atoms and lying through their teeth, that's what I think.

And why didn't they get Richard Benjamin on Deep Space Nine?

-- 
Matt McIrvin         I read Usenet just for the	tab damage!
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Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch)
Subject: Re: Bigfootf spaceman?
Organization: Huggable Furry Brain-Eating Aliens for Tots, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 05:12:09 GMT

In article <72870@cup.portal.com> John_-_Winston@cup.portal.com writes:
>Dear Folks: Now to answer a question. It was asked how we compare in
>IQ to the space people. If you consider a human to be very smart with
>an IQ of 150 then the Greys from Z. R. have a 300 IQ.

I don't consider a human with an IQ of 150 to be very smart.  So how
smart are the Greys really?

>People from 
>Venus are 5,000 years ahead of us an in the 4th dimension, because we
>destroyed our civilization about 5,000 years ago. Some people from
>Saturn and Jupiter would seem god like to us.

I don't understand.  How are the aliens godlike?  Do they enjoy
fucking Earth women and having their children killed for their
entertainment?  Do they devote themselves to making our lives
miserable?  Do they cause cancer?  Or do you just mean that the space
aliens are ridiculous mental crutches, blamed by morons for everything
beyond their understanding?

  On an irrelevant note, somebody writes, more or less:

>I am automatically posting this to every newsgroup.  I have no opinion
>about this newsgroup.

Did you know you have to sell your soul to summon an autoposting
demon?  It's such a pity, too.  Having expelled so much waste in so
many different directions, this person's mind must be a model of
sparkling purity by now.  He must have achieved enlightenment by now,
so I guess there's no point in trying to enlighten him further.

I like the excuse, though.  "Why, no, sir, I have no opinion regarding
your patent leather shoes.  But I had to piss somewhere."

(By the way, I'm not feeling myself today.  I'm not feeling anyone
else either, but that's beside the point.  Well, maybe it's not, maybe
that's why I'm posting this drivel.  Arrogant posturing as a shield
for deep-seated loneliness, a twusted cry for love, that's how it's
supposed to work, right?)

So now I'll be going into hiding until I find myself, which might take
a long time, seeing as I'm practically microscopic.  But enough
ancient puns for now, and probably forever, although I would never
stop for such a sane reason.

Next time I'll do better.  Next time I won't include any false
promises at the end.
From: locatech@tron.gun.de (Joerg Loehn)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Kibology...the real thing
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neuss, Germany
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:22:00 +0100

MATMCINN%NUSCC.NUS.SG@USENET schrieb am 4.01.93 um 1:45:

MN> In [a certain part of Tanzania] Kibo is worshipped. Some pray to Kibo for
MN> rain. One local chief of the Wachagga: "God came from Kibo. In fact, God
MN> *is* Kibo."

I'm reading this newsgroup for a short time only. Is there any FAQ-list about
Kibo? What is Kibo, I never heard of it? Please tell me some facts...

so long...
                Joerg

-- 
* Origin : PGP 2.0 public key available upon request.

// THE_DOT V2.05b DEMO //
From: ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Food with Kibo nature
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:31:42 GMT
Organization: finchhaus
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu


a packet of powdered Purple Yam Jam.
found at Wong's Oriental Grocery yesterday.


AjD
i'm keeping it.
-- 
                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
"You'll never find happiness as a human being, kid." -- Suehiro Maruo
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Welcome, Oracle Corp.
Reply-To: kibo@world.std.com
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:35:02 GMT

[]
	I'd like to thank Oracle Corporation for adding
alt.religion.kibology to their news feed.  I'm a big fan of Larry
Ellison, and I've got every book he's written, including "A Boy And His
Dog" which gets kind of gross at the end where they eat the girl but
still Ellison is one of the most wicked awesome sci-fi authors there is.

							-- K.
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Ring in the New Year with Some FAQs
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:03:13 GMT
Organization: at. alfonso's pancake breakfast

In article <C0oxEq.F0r@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>
>>In article <ciu5wB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>>>here we have it folks, both Derek and Kibo admit
>>>that they are responsible for MAINTAINING urban legends. 
>>I never said that.  I said I *was* an urban legend!
>
>Yes, but who MAINTAINS you?

i believe i was hired to do that...or was it something much more fun and 
exhausting?

bah.
i am the asciibo!
--
		    -just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      coed naked internet grep! always keep your link up!
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,rec.pets.cats
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: "Mr." Socks?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:39:28 GMT

kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>Clinton's cat.  "!ESO SI QUE ES!"  "Well, why didn't you SAY so?"
>
>(womp womp)
>								-- K.

How about: "Stand on a chair" = "see a loose light" ?

Jon "Loosey take my three pesos away." Papai
Xref: sparky alt.religion.kibology:5702 alt.alien.visitors:9742
From: mch@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mike C Holderness)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Date: 10 Jan 1993 19:41:57 -0000
Organization: c/o Dept  Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
Summary: not a lot

rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>How come we see so few alien races that are more wasteful, more selfish,
>and less able to accomplish anything than modern beaurocratic america?

There is, believe it or not, an extensive literature on this.

There existed as late as the mid-80s an obscure Trotskyist sect known as
the Posadists, after their guru, one J D Posad, a resident of Italy.
A key feature of their political platform went:

* There are billions and billions of worlds in the Cosmos
* Some of these must statistically have developed intelligent life
* Some of _these_ must statistically have achieved advanced socialism
* Advanced socialism, not entailing the waste of resources represented
   by the extraction of surplus value from the capitalist system, must
   be technologically more advanced than capitalism
* Therefore [steps omitted] the vanguard of the revolution is up there in 
   the sky, making "beep, beep" noises.

I am not making this up. I'm not that inventive -- I'm a reporter by trade!
I have _met_ these people (though quite what the significance of saying 
this, in this news-group, is, escapes me).

Mike Holderness
  mch@doc.ic.ac.uk
 
Xref: sparky alt.religion.kibology:5637 alt.alien.visitors:9581
From: ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:56:59 GMT
Organization: finchhaus
NNTP-Posting-Host: helen.oit.itd.umich.edu

In article <1993Jan4.172206.15433@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>Why is this? Is it because Americans like to affirm themselves as being
>different and individualistic? Is it because we (as a society) wish that
>we were more collectivistic? Or is it because this collectivism is
>very frightening to our individualistic mentalities?
>
>How come we see so few alien races that are more wasteful, more selfish,
>and less able to accomplish anything than modern beaurocratic america?

tribbles.

think
about
it.

AjD
appeasing
the
line
counter
-- 
                       ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu
"You'll never find happiness as a human being, kid." -- Suehiro Maruo
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology,alt.alien.visitors
From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: Collective, dispassionate aliens
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:30:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.172206.15433@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
|> 
|> How come we see so few alien races that are more wasteful, more selfish,
|> and less able to accomplish anything than modern beaurocratic america?
 
 Because such races would never make it off their home planet.
 
 Then again, there are the Ferengi...
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