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To: High-Tech East who wrote (41319)	2/19/2001 6:19:42 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to 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

To: High-Tech East who wrote (41319)	2/19/2001 9:41:14 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 64865

Dear Ken: Yes, it was a terrible tragedy. While his main home was in N.C. he actually has a home here in S.Fla about 20 miles from me. You might be interested in knowing that I sat in the PIT when FireBall Roberts was racing at the Daytona 500 only a couple years after it had opened. The father of a girl I was dating was friends of Fireball Roberts and thus I got to meet him and watch the race from his pit. Didnt know at the time I was watching history in the making. JDN

To: High-Tech East who wrote (41319)	2/19/2001 2:14:32 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes, he was one of racing legends, I am sorry to learn of the news. After fatal injuries in their series, other racing sanctioning bodies, such as Formula One and Championship Auto Racing Teams mandated use of a head-and-neck support device designed to protect the head at sudden impact. However, NASCAR did not require its use, and only a few drivers in Sunday's race were wearing one. Earnhardt was not one of them. latimes.com While the head restrain is helpful, unfortunately the speeds at which the cars are capable and the fact that most NASCAR tracks have those walls so close, makes it almost irrelevant. Is it time for NASCAR to adopt some of Formula 1 governing body's steps to make tracks a tad safer ? It is true that Formula One has Monte Carlo (and recently other tracks), where walls are as close as NASCAR tracks, in most tracks there are rows of tires, or "sand traps" and/or wire catching fences before the cars would hit the hard steel ARMCO retaining rails (or earth embankments). Hard to say. Motor Sports is a dangerous sport and everyone driving accepts it. ________________________ Feb. 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt Sr. died as the result of a crash in the Daytona 500. He was the best at what he did, and passed away doing what he loved to do. Our condolences to the Earnhardt family, Dale will be dearly missed by his fans and all of NASCAR. Thanks for the great ride #3. members.tripod.com Dale Ernhardt was often compared to Ayrton Senna (One of the most talented Formula One racers ever). Ernhardt said this is at the time of Ayrton Senna's death: "We want to send our thoughts and prayers to the family of Ayrton Senna and all his fans. He was a great racer and a great champion. It's a shame." -Dale Earnhardt Ayrton Senna's thoughts on death: "The day it arrives, it will arrive. It could be today or 50 years later. The only sure thing is that it will arrive." ______ Somewhere, if you believe in the afterlife, is a circuit. On that circuit, certainly, Ayrton Senna is on the pole. Somewhere in the middle of the pack is one, Dale Earnhardt. As the race starts, Senna is off, stretching his race legs. As the race leads on, Senna opens up a comfortable lead. As the race hits the two-thirds mark, Senna looks into his mirrors. All clear and......wait, there's a black car appearing in the distance. Except the distance rapidly begins to diminish. As the black car gets larger in Senna's mirrors, Senna can clearly see a driver with a half-helmet, and black goggles. Who the hell?? Senna is pushing hard now; harder than if Mansell, Prost, or Schumacher were close in tail. He swears he sees a wide grin amid a wide moustache. Who is this guy? Senna figures he will scratch his wheels with this guy when he pulls even, but when he pulls even, the wide grin is wider, looking eye to eye with the Brazilian master. Just where he ought to be. Here's to you, Dale, may there be nary a restrictor plate on your plate, and may you give Jimmy Clark and Ayrton Senna a friendly "nudge" to remind them that the Intimidator has arrived.. autoracing1.com