Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:39:01 -0500,
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message
<[🔎] 1062261541.667.582.camel@haggis>:
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 02:39:28 -0700,
> > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 20030830093928.GF9613@ursine.ca>:
> >
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> > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 07:23:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Just in case you *aren't* being sarcastic, or there are people
> > > > on the list from places that are far, far from subway trains:
> > > > yes, subways have their own dedicated tracks. Of course, when
> > > > the power goes out, the Amtrak control stations go dead, so
> > > > there is a slightly higher possibility of 2 passenger trains
> > > > plowing into each other.
> > >
> > > Not really. Every railroad out there, including subway and
> > > commuter systems, stops and proceeds slowly for signals.
> >
> > ...in exactly the same fasion airliners lands smoothly on their
> > destination runway, instead of swatting down high rises.
>
> Don't be an idiot. There are no steering wheels on railroad engines.
.. ;-)
..correct, ...
> They run down tracks. That's all they can do, unless the tracks are
> damaged, somehow. And then, the whole train doesn't "jump" to another
> track, and keep on going...
...correct, they get shifted from track to track useing track-shifter
(spelling?), and _can_ be forced thru these, even without wintendo
viruses in the control box, and a freight train going off track at
full bore in a tunnel, will traverse _quite_ a bit of tunnel, if
left at full bore.
..seen those funny J-end track bumpers? Designed to help
_park_ a train at the dead end of a track, say, at a station.
At a walking pace.
..now, just how much law enforcement and military manpower is wasting
time in the futile chase of wintendo vira, instead of working on
national and "Homeland" security?
--
..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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