Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:19:39 -0700,
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message
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> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:44:43AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..2 reason diesel-electric locomotives are popular; they are
> > about as clean as your average power utility, and they dont
> > put heavy loads on the power grids.
>
> Nope, and nope. Diesel electrics are popular because they give the
> most bang for the buck. Vastly more efficient than gasoline engines
> and mechanical transmissions (it's 2003, why can't I get a diesel
> electric car?, with fewer moving parts than the steam engines it
> replaced. This makes them dirt cheap and bloody reliable. The
> railroads really couldn't give a damn about how much electric they're
> using since they're not having to string thousands apon thousands of
> miles of overhead lines (another costly expense railroads don't bother
> with unless they can get economic benefit from the typically heavier
> and faster trains that electrified lines run).
..I picked 2 reasons, and you gave another 3. ;-)
>
> > ..the locomotive engineers needs to be onboard and alive and
> > capable of preventing anyone from tampering with the dead
> > mans button system, to stop their freight trains. FUD? ;-)
>
> Never mind the deadman button is usually unmarked and when you need to
> press it will *not* be familiar to the vast majority of people out
> there.
..relax, if the dead mans button _is_ left alone, or the
engineer falls onto it, the train stops. Feature. ;-)
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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