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Xref: sserve alt.folklore.computers:73462 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5438 comp.os.linux.misc:35471 comp.os.os2.advocacy:79746 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!ionews.ionet.net!ion1!blumen From: "Benjamin J. Lumen" <blumen@ion1> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 13:37:50 -0600 Organization: Internet Oklahoma Lines: 33 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950216133112.16710E-100000@ion1> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <3g862c$3mu@supreme.pcug.org.au> <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> <3h97k3$6m2@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com> <5fjmC7bjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ion1.ionet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5fjmC7bjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> On 12 Feb 1995, Kai Henningsen wrote: > lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com wrote on 07.02.95 in <3h97k3$6m2@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com>: > > > In article <5fKBnEpjcsB@khms.westfalen.de> kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai > > >Henningsen) writes: > > > > Now Now. Remember your 'green' philosophy. The Trabant was a > > very remarkable device, being pretty much an entirely biodegradable > > automobile. > > I don't think it was any more biodegradable than any other car. However, > the problem I pointed out was that it is very dangerous to be involved in > an accident with one. They have _no_ "passive security" _at_all_. Uhh, I don't think you would have to worry about the Trabant lawn mower motor. It probably wouldn't go very fast. From what I have last heard from a AirForce MSGT they are all sitting in a field in east germany decomposing, although Lawn Boy could probably go over there and pick up every motor for around $50 for the whole lot and thus produce cheap lawn movers over here. Someone else could go get the bodies and return them to their original function as pressed fiber board flattening them out (just add water and weights at the appropriate places), drill holes all over them and cut them to size you could then hang them in your garrage and then hang your tools on them and have a very orderly work shop. YOu see those russian engineers were really worried about the question of what can we do with them after they break (in other words after the 90 day warranty). Ben