On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 3:22:02 -0700, Arty Hues
wrote:

Put as many words you want in front of 'expensive'. I don't care about
the hardware cost. How can you tally, those lives, vs. cost?

This happens all the time. Every ship that is launched. Every
skyscraper erected. Every car off the assembly line. There are ways
that each and every one of them can kill people, and they do kill
people. It is so common that only the most spectacular makes the news.
Did you know 108 US citizens died in elevators from 1992 to 1998? Do
you demand we ban elevators? Install lifeboats on elevators? Only send
elevators to the 'safe' second floor?

No. Nothing is 100% safe because building things 100% safe is
prohibitively expensive, if not impossible. No one would build them if
we demanded they be perfectly safe. Instead, we accept that from time
to time, people will die using them. We try as hard as we can to make
their number as small as possible. But we do not achieve perfection,
and we never will.

"A ship in port is safe. But that is not what ships are for."

Brian