Re: Change One Thing

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:54:32 GMT, Daniel Silevitch
<dmsilev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:26:12 GMT, Wayne Throop <throopw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>: "David Loewe, Jr." <dloewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>: Delineate for us the place in the sig where Niven excludes the
>>: possibility that one can "give up both at the same time."
>>
>> The part where it says "the product of freedom and security is a constant".
>> Doesn't that rule it out? If not, why not? How can you give up both
>> and still make that true?
>
>If the constant is zero.

If the constant was zero you would never have either to give up in
the first place.

.

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