From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 6 6:25:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A5914E07 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 06:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA11296 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:27:32 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907061327.IAA11296@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 6 Jul 99 08:25:50 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 6 Jul 99 08:25:33 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:25:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com In-reply-to: <19990706101043.31810@ns.int.ftf.net> References: <19990705132404.A220@whizkidtech.net>; from G. Adam Stanislav on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:24:04PM -0500 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 6 Jul 99, at 10:10, Phil Regnauld wrote: > G. Adam Stanislav writes: > Sometimes, this also applies to europeans visiting the US -- they'll > casually say "Oh, I'll just rent a car in Seattle and drive down > to L.A." -- people are just not aware of the distances (well, > there's also the fact that you have time to dessicate at the wheel > when driving 65 MPH). It seems to be a problem with understanding the scale of things. Yes, it's a single country. But it spans the continent. An exchange student was working for my wife in a library on the east coast, and said she was going to visit her friends in Washington over a 3-day weekend. She was going to take the train. My wife was familiar with Washington DC, so she suggested a few resturants, and was told, "No, not Washington DC, my friends are in Washington state!" If there was an excellent train service, she'd have had just enough time to make it to Washington state, get a cup of coffee, get back on the train, and drink the coffee on the way back. But train service gets worse and worse the farther you get from the east coast. Sadly, the student couldn't afford a plane ticket, so the visit with friends was considerably delayed. Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: If guys were suppose to hang clothes up, door knobs would be bigger. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message