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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:45:10 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 05:45:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a990f4638911ef9c492f3b00f3c1eb90"; logging-data="249476"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/+RJYhg4yMVdYieiAF6g7r" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cXLLCA6n+lzUyQepHI4H2slJ6wk= Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2080 On 10/11/24 08:42, William Hyde wrote: > D wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote: >> >>>> Why SF? I was there 8 years ago and found it dirty with many drug >>>> users on the street. >>> >>> Parts of it, yes. >>> >>> I arrived in SF from a small city with no obvious drug users or >>> vagrants. >>> >>> This was because the local police grabbed those people, gave them a >>> beating, and dumped them in the next county.  Somebody else's problem. >> >> Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving the >> problem! =) > > So you are in fact in favour of government regulation, provided it is > illegal and hurts people you dislike. Now that D is here, the entertainment level is surpassing the Jibini level.