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 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 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: John McCabe Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:55:09 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <14e1cf5c-b053-49ec-83c8-d36b9afc49ab@p29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4n1f5510eum9c0b53rb1ui111rmgf23fgd@4ax.com> <4a579aae$0$6258$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: RXEkuaSUwmKe0XIGFYSK7A.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.9 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ncNBxB5u8STvPLR6fL2K8e+h8AI= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6990 Date: 2009-07-11T17:55:09+01:00 List-Id: On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:21:24 +0200, Albrecht K�fer wrote: >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 ... :-}