[117146] in Cypherpunks
Re: Petro, please put me in your kill file...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petro)
Fri Aug 27 04:16:52 1999
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:03:33 -0700
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From: Petro <petro@suba.com>
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>On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:23:25 -0700, Petro wrote:
>
>> Ride a bicycle--at 1.71 dollars a gallon, you are only paying
>
>>1/2 of what that gas costs when you figure in accident clean up, road
>>building and maintainence, and the overall cost of cleaning up the
>>grime and nastiness caused by burning fossil fuels.
>>
>> I'm paying 1.67 a gallon here in the peoples Republic of
>>Califonia, but I don't really care--then again my motor cycle gets
>>about 40 miles to the gallon, and my wifes car gets a little better
>>than 30--and it only gets driven about 60 miles a week, with maybe a
>>little extra on the week ends.
>
>Dear Petro...
>
>How about having to commute with a bike to a job that is located at the other
>end of the city (50 miles) in the winter, by -25 F, on narrow street, among
>18" chunks of ice littering the side of every street and snowbanks four feet
>high over the sidewalks? If we really want to use bikes here 12 months a
>year, we'll have to burn quite a bit more than the regular quantity of fossil
>fuels the world currently does! See, I drive my gaz-guzzler to make sure I
>could use a more eco-friendly way of travel in the future. All altruistic, my
>dear friend!
I rode an average of 15 miles a day, 12 months a year in
Chicago. No, I never rode when it was -25F. Just down to 0F.
Your city is 50 miles across? I doubt it.
You're supposed to be a smart boy, figure out a different solution.
>
>And while a student at U of Montreal, I did just this for one whole winter. I
>had to travel around 10 miles then. Almost got killed ten times as often as
>during the whole rest of my life. Then, I had enough.
So did I. I moved some place where it doesn't snow.
>Of course, a the largest part of the gaz price is taxes, so that the green and
>collectivistic do-gooders can get paid while they harass us...
And of course, you continue to support the state you claim to hate.
>I invite you to have as much regard as I now have for you, and thus
>reciprocate my actions: put me in your kill file.
Coward.
>
>Antually, guys, is this Petro some ViZioNury or what? :-) And plonk he goes
>with the VZNers...
Which just goes to show why the US doesn't bother putting
forts along the Canuck border.
Why bother, at the first sign of hostlitily they fold up.
--
Interfaces matter. You need mathematical bones; engineering muscle;
but you won't replicate without beautiful skin. Bits, transistors,
wires, code, gummint velveeta is free. Will is expensive. Gutenburg.
Smith. Ford. Moore. Postel. Steam engines were neat. Steam
engines pulling trains were amazing. Computers were neat. Computers
networked were amazing. Warning grunts are useful. The ability of a
charistmatic speaker to fuck with your head is disastrous.--Blank
Frank(anonymously)
