From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 20 14:56:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19945 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:56:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.konnections.com (mail.konnections.com [192.41.71.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19878; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 14:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle (root@ip214.konnections.com [192.41.71.214]) by mail.konnections.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id PAA29992; Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:54:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <335BEEDA.13BCF647@konnections.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:48:58 -0700 From: mike allison Organization: Publisher -- Burning Eagle Book Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Struble CC: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, scrappy@hub.org, dyson@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don't know Ian, I know it worked great everywhere I've lived in England (mostly in the North) Beats the hell out of driving and paying for your own car. Vancouver had a good system, as does Seattle. In America people refer to it as "The Shame Train". You take the bus 'cause you can't afford a car. No one would understand that the train/bus can be easier and more relaxing....They also don't understand that normal people ride the bus.... -Mike Ian Struble wrote: > > I can't speak about England, but the whole mass transit thing is great. When I > went to school in Canada, I took either the bus or the ferry all the time and > it was great. There is a big social aspect to mass transit that most people > here in the states will never quite understand let alone appreciate. But I > guess there is that large cross section of America that isn't 'all that keen on > making friends' that wouldn't appreciate it if they could. > > Ian