[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[Brian Dunbar]

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Phil Stracchino [mailto:alaric at caerllewys.net] on Tuesday, July 15, 2003
5:19 PM said

>On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:09:54PM -0400, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>> Never trust 911 services... a certain state's 911 call center is being 
>> *cough* downgraded by my company from a legacy RISC system to Win32 on 
>> Intel.

><offtopic>
>Never *rely* on 911 services, period.  The Supreme Court ruled some time
>ago that police departments, that nice "To Protect And Serve" motto
>notwithstanding, have no "duty to protect" and cannot be held reponsible
>for failing to protect you, even when answering an emergency call, even
>if the reason they failed to protect you is because they took 45 minutes
>to respond to the call.
></offtopic>

A good argument _against_ gun control, I would think.

~brian