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On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 15:14:25 GMT, dmc <dmc@dmc.com> wrote:
>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.

Kewl!  Uh, what did I say 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. ;)
>
>*--
>Daryl dmc
>dmc@brig-a-doon.com
>
>Remove the hyphens to reply


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