From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Newsgroups: can.infohighway
Subject: A highway with teeth
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:37:24 -0800
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To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Russell Nelson wrote:

When is the movie going to hit the theatres?

> > "common sense / bull shit" test.  Perhaps an analogy will serve...  Think
> > of the computer highway AS a highway.
>
> There it is again.  Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information
> Superhighway."  They don't know JACK about the net.  It's NOTHING
> like a Superhighway.  That's a BAD metaphor.
>
> Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in the OTHER direction.  Suppose
> the HIGHWAYS were like the NET.  All right!  Severe craziness.  A
> highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide.  Most with potholes.  Privately
> operated bridges and overpasses.  No highway patrol.  A couple of
> rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles.  500 member VIGILANTE
> POSSES with nuclear weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection.  NO
> SIGNS.  Wanna get to Ensenada?  Holler out the window at a passing
> truck to ask directions. AD HOC traffic laws.  Some lanes would VOTE
> to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL OFFENSE on Monday
> through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00.  Other lanes would just SHOOT
> you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
>
> AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA
> victims and a TOILET spewing out on the road behind it.  Throwing
> DEAD WOMBATS and rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have
> been ASSEMBLED AT HOME from kits.  Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER
> ENGINES with a top speed of nine miles an hour.  Others burn
> NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.
>
> No license tags.  World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead.  Terrifying
> paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES.  Bumper mounted MACHINE
> GUNS.  Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE
> PHOSPHORUS GRENADE up your tailpipe.  Flatbed trucks with
> ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE BATTERIES to shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch
> helicopter.  A little kid on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with
> HYDROCHLORIC ACID.
>
> NO OFFRAMPS.
>
> Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.
>

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