From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 21 00:57:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA27817 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA27812; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA17417; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:57:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: mike allison cc: Ian Struble , 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...) In-Reply-To: <335BEEDA.13BCF647@konnections.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, mike allison wrote: > 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 > Not always -- growing up in New York, I never learned to drive, because the bus and subway systems were so good. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."