Re: TML nightly: Msgs 4185-4190 V39#1

> From: [email removed] (metlay)
> "Doc" Kinne asks about the virus we narrowly avoided. Well, I got
> bad news for you, Richard. We didn't avoid the stupid thing; it's
> due to hit when TNE does, later this year. TNE is gonna be based on
> the stupid thing, and the primary argument everyone had with GDW
> is that the trends in Hard Times, continued for a few decades,
> would have accomplished the same stuff without need for a virus.
>

Mike -

(Or, anyone)

What is/are TNE and Hard Times?  And what's the above in reference
to?  Thanks for the info.

Dave

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