On Thursday, in article
"Jim Webster" wrote:

Dave Roberts wrote in message
...

Getting out of farming at the right time would appear to be a tough
judgement to make.

very few have ever done it. The best rule was get out the year after the
war ends but that broke down in 1945.

Jim, you ought to know better than that. There was a brief illusion of
peace, but there was a war until about 1989.

The rule still makes sense.


--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"Let me get this straight. You're the KGB's core AI, but you're afraid
of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?"
From "Lobsters" by Charles Stross.