From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 21 09:43:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29099 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (ppp040-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA29090; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA24288; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:43:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199704211643.JAA24288@superior.mooseriver.com> Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Apr 21, 97 00:57:42 am" To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:43:15 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mallison@konnections.com, ian@ian.broken.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jack@diamond.xtalwind.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, scrappy@hub.org, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. > > Agree. The mass transit system in NYC is the best in America which is'nt saying much. Growing up in Lower Manhatten I did'nt drive until I was almost 20. My father did'nt own a car until I was 17. Only the truely insane drive into midtown Manhatten during during the week. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.1 jgrosch@sirius.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses