>> (Actually, on reflection, if I had a time machine I wouldn't use it to
>> find out if I'd still get fat... More like, go back in time, bitch-slap
>> myself, and radically alter a few life choices!)
> 
> Ever see the movie Daywatch?  There's a line in there I love... a 
> villain is offered the opportunity to correct any of his past mistakes, 
> which he declines.  His associate asks him, "You don't make mistakes?" 
> to which he replied, "I don't regret them."
> 
> Fact is, if you had made different choices, you wouldn't understand the 
> necessity of those choices.

No, I wouldn't. But I'd be *happy* instead of being miserable. I think I 
could live with being happy but not knowing why. :-P

> It's the act of making mistakes that 
> teaches you not to; to quote conventional wisdom, "it's the burnt hand 
> that teaches best."

Being killed is a *really* ineffective way to learn about the dangers of 
landmines. :-P

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