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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (37051)	11/20/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: bluejeans	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Fust somebody had th' bright idea of transmittin' computer data on over a phone line. Then someone decided it might be a fine idea t'transmit computer data on over cable TV lines. ah agree thet it's a fine idea t'avoid havin' mo'e applicashun-specific lines come into th' avahage home, but ah doesn't reckon th' developers of these technologies is bein' creative inough. ah reckon we sh'd transmit computer data through th' plumbin'. Figger about it. We've already got this hyar elabo'ate, tree-struckured plumbin' system in place thet connecks ev'ry home t'local centralized plants. Eff'n we cornneck all th' local plants togither by satellyte o' sumpin, we'd effeckively haf a netwawk topologically similar t'th' Internet, but simpler an' mo'e geographically intuitive. ah say we does it. We c'd transmit th' data via recyclable immersible flotashun capsules, o' perhaps wif timed flushin' sequences. Of course, excess rain c'd cuz some line noise, but these is the types of problems civil ingineers is paid t'solve.