From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,f096ebb5dcac664d X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Albrecht =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=E4fer?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:21:24 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <14e1cf5c-b053-49ec-83c8-d36b9afc49ab@p29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4n1f5510eum9c0b53rb1ui111rmgf23fgd@4ax.com> <4a579aae$0$6258$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: p54bca2ca.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: online.de 1247322607 8341 84.188.162.202 (11 Jul 2009 14:30:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:30:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Hamster-Pg/1.25.2.0 In-Reply-To: <4a579aae$0$6258$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi> Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6983 Date: 2009-07-11T16:21:24+02:00 List-Id: Niklas Holsti schrieb: > That is like a bit arguing against using seatbelts in a car because you > know of one (very strange) accident in which a person wearing a seatbelt > was killed while a person not wearing a seatbelt would perhaps have > survived. While such arguments were used years ago against the mandatory > use of seatbelts, I don't think many would accept them today, because we > know that seatbelts are beneficial in most accidents. On the other hand, seat belts increase the likelihood of an accident ... Albrecht