From: Timothy Bates (tbates@bunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Date: Fri Nov 13 1998 - 00:28:24 MST
Hi Spike and listers,
>Timothy Bates wrote:
>> As you go on to note, libertarian's just don't grok tax in the first...
Spike said:
>define please this term "grok." i saw it used in ed regis' book
>nano, but the context was uncertain. thanks! spike
grok is Unix-geek speak: it means "get it".
if you are etomologically minded, check out
http://whatis.com/grok.htm
it may be the first exptropian word in common currency ;-)
best
tim
____________________
"Prescription Drugs Kill More Than Street Drugs,"
Properly prescribed legal drugs killed 106,000 Americans each year, due
to toxic reactions. That's more that *twenty times* the number of
Americans killed by illegal drugs, estimated at 5,212."
New England Journal of Medicine, April 1998.
see also
"Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions in Hospitalized Patients," Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA). April 1998
"The Public and the War On Illicit Drugs," JAMA, March 18, 1998.
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