From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Mar 4 16:36:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D55C37B91E for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 16:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tech_info@threespace.com) Received: from dallas ([12.73.243.110]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.31a 201-229-119-114) with ESMTP id <20000305003626.DUF17170.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@dallas>; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:36:26 +0000 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000304173923.00a271f0@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:42:20 -0500 To: Mark Newton From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Great American Gas Out Cc: FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: <20000304101212.A384@internode.com.au> References: <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452201313909@l04.research.kpn.com> <38BFEEA8.1A465CFC@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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