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To: High-Tech East who wrote (41319)2/19/2001 6:19:42 AM
From: JC Jaros   of 64865
 
On a lighter note...

----- Forwarded message from Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de -----

Here it is again. Some clueless FOOL talking about the
"Information Superhighway." They don't know JACK about the net.
It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. That's a BAD metaphor. Yeah,
but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction. Suppose the
HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A
highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately
operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of
rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member
VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every
intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the
window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic
laws. Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a
single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday through
Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just SHOOT you
without a trial for talking on a car phone. AOL would be a giant
diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and a TOILET
spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and
rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have been
ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER
ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn
NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120. No license tags. World War II
BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or
VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper mounted MACHINE GUNS. Flip somebody the
finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your
tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to
shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch helicopter. A little kid on a
tricycle with a squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID. NO
OFFRAMPS. Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.

----- End forwarded message -----

-JCJ
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