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Xref: sserve alt.folklore.computers:73645 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5469 comp.os.linux.misc:35593 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80101 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!malgudi.oar.net!cedarnet.cedarville.edu!calvin!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!vtt1.vttoth.com!vtt3.vttoth.com!vttoth From: vttoth@vttoth.com (Viktor T. Toth) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 03:25:47 Organization: Viktor T. Toth Lines: 30 Message-ID: <vttoth.529.0ACD9B80@vttoth.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950216133112.16710E-100000@ion1> NNTP-Posting-Host: vtt3.vttoth.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B] In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950216133112.16710E-100000@ion1> "Benjamin J. Lumen" <blumen@ion1> writes: > Uhh, I don't think you would have to worry about the Trabant >lawn mower motor. It probably wouldn't go very fast. Okay, so I open myself to rightful flaming regarding off-topic stuff, but what the hell? I remember reading many years ago an April 1 (I think) issue of a West German car magazine, in which it reviewed the Trabant just as if it was a 'real' car like a Porsche or something. In the data sheet, under acceleration, 0-100km was marked as 'no data', with a footnote that explained that it was impossible to go faster than 80 kph with the thing :) The sight of abandoned Trabants and Wartburgs on Hungary's western highways during the 1989 exodus of East Germans was more than a bit depressing. A few short weeks earlier those same Trabants, now abandoned, represented the life savings for many people. Good riddance, you say, but I could not help but think of all the human labor that went into those miserable things, which were now lying on the side of the road, already picked clean by thiefs of anything of value that was removable, like wheels and such. This was one of the biggest crimes of Communism: how it wasted human labor and ingenuity on mass-producing nearly useless garbage. And if Trumpet allowed me to set followups, this is when I would set followups to /dev/null. Or alt.advocacy.trabant, perhaps? :) -- Viktor