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On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 00:27:17 GMT, joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
wrote:

> (4) Have older, more homogenous societies, with narrow streets and no
>     lane control and park on the sidewalk.
> (5) Have denser cities with public transportation and more mixed use zoning
>     so people can live near where they work.
> (6) Ban driving at night with headlights on in cities.
> (7) Drink two large litres of strong dark beer with lunch then sit in traffic.
>     Claim you don't have American style road rage and drunk drivers.
> (8) Have a tradition of machismo and popular road racing and "killer B" racing
>     and consider large numbers of spectators killed by crashes heroic.
> (9) Highly tax petrol and arbitrarily tax engine size, creating a bunch of 
>     ridiculously underpowered econoboxes.
> (10) Make trucks completely unsafe, but keep their statistics separate.
> (11) Idolize race drivers who end up upside down a lot.
> (12) Make oversteer a "desired" handling characteristic through misapplication
>      of racing technology to road cars.
> (13) Let engineers kill themselves off with twin-engine deathmobiles.
> (14) Put all environmental problems off to the east.
> (15) Indentured servitude for the dirty work.
> (16) Let anyone drive on a race course, mixing tour busses with high-powered
>      GT cars.
> (17) Product liability?  What's that?  If you are afraid to die, go drive a
>      Jetta.
> (18) Test drive high-powered exotic cars on roads with herds of farm animals.
> (19) Bureaucratize!  Bureaucratize!  Bureaucratize! 
> (20) Make poeple say you make the trains on time.
> (21) Give people their birthdays off and 4 weeks vacation a year - then take
>      it away.
> (22) Kill anyone who doesn't agree with you.  They're not really people, so
>      you don't have to include them in the stats, either.
> (23) Make things arbitrarily illegal in one place, but not another.  Blame
>      all problems on those from elsewhere.
> (24) Idolize anyone from California.

Be careful when posting to seattle.general. We have a local psycho who
will brand you a "traitor" for saying *anything* bad about the US.

(Oodly, she's called foreigners traitors for saying bad things about
the US as well.)

Her moniker is Monica I. Be careful. Be very careful. ;)

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Daryl dmc
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