[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> Forwarded to Geeks
>
> 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.

...or paying taxes (city taxes at least)