From: "Mark Hessey" 

LOL, Bridge A must have been from the prior 50 years. 

Mark

Mark Hessey  wrote in message
news:38d57acf$1{at}w3.nls.net... | Frankly Randall, I enjoy reading various
passages from the Bible from time | to time, and it is a "good"
book, it is chock full of  ideas that can help | you shape your outlook on
life and it provides tons of ideas for use in | shaping sermons that do
reflect current conditions - but I have serious | misgivings about their
literal application in today's world. |
| Taking the bouncing bridges from another thread as an example, suppose I
| give you directions to my house that include taking Bridge B, 50 years
later
| Bridge B bounces itself into oblivion - do I continue to tell people to get
| to my house via Bridge B? Nope. Do I refer to the prior existence of Bridge
| A when updating directions to them? Yup. If someone I've never given |
directions to in the past asks me, do I mention Bridge A? Nope - irrelevant
| that it was once there to that person. This new person is still going to get
| here, but he'll do it using modern day conveyances. |
| Mark
|
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| Randall Parker  wrote in message |
news:MPG.133f19a0f72ee49398a120{at}news.barkto.com... | | Mark,
| |
| | But consider the side-effects: People stop doing maintenance. People |
| stop do additions. No new buildings unless you happen to have inherited |
| it and have a clear claim to it stretching back generations. | |
| | Its a recipe for greatly slowed economic development no matter how you
| | cut it.
| |
| | In <38d57006$1{at}w3.nls.net>, the sagacious mark{at}hessey.com Mark
Hessey | | perspicated:
| | > That's covered Randall, supposedly the value of the land _decreases_
| each
| | > year until it's worth nothing in year 50, so you're really not giving
| | g> But if year 45 comes along and you're just plain fed
up
| with
| | > paying $20/hour to get the harvest in, you can sell it to someone else
| for
| | > 5/50ths of your original buy price and walk away from it early.
| | >
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