Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:42:20 -0500 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000304173923.00a271f0@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> References: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com>
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At 06:42 PM 3/3/00 , you wrote: >Bah. In Western Australia there's a sheep station called "Little Texas" >which just happens to have a land area larger than the state of Texas; >I live in Adelaide, so I have to go 600 km East or 3000 km West or 3000 km >North to find another population centre with more than 50,000 people; >the nearest interstate Capital city is 980 km away. Our cities are also >a hell of a lot more widely laid-out than yours: Adelaide, with a pop. >of 1.1 million, has the same surface area as New York City. >So let's accept that distances in the US are pissant little commuter hops, >shall we? :-) I'm sure that commuting across NYC still takes far more gas and time and requires a higher toll on a person's automobile and stress level than commuting across Adelaide. --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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