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|    Mickey to Adam H. Kerman    |
|    Re: Hoosier State crisis averted    |
|    20 Apr 15 15:39:24    |
      From: mickey@manningfire.dyndns.org.remove-slw-this               To: Adam H. Kerman        Re: Re: Hoosier State crisis averted        By: Adam H. Kerman to misc.transport.rail.americas on Mon Apr 20 2015 05:55       pm               > What the hell does economy of scale have to do with anything? There are        > huge, expensive problems to overcome, like lack of radio spectrum        > capacity particularly in Chicago and that FCC is way way behind on        > issuing licenses for all the new transmitters and relay stations,        > and the complete idiocy of the design that the entire railroad infrastructur       e        > plan must be downloaded into the locomotive each and every time the        > fucking consist changes direction because, you know, somebody installed        > a brand-new turnout in the last hour.        >        > It's one massively stupid fuckup. Economy of scale is mostly irrelevant.        > --- Synchronet 3.15b-Win32 NewsLink 1.92              This made ME laugh. I agree most definitely, but I still laughed. :-)                     Mickey       SynchroNET 3.15       Oxford Mills Remote @ telnet://manningfire.dyndns.org:23       Living the Past - Living the Dream - Keeping the Blues Alive                            --- Synchronet 3.15b-Win32 NewsLink 1.92       Oxford Mills Remote BBS - telnet://manningfire.dyndns.org              --- SoupGate/W32 v1.03        * Origin: LiveWire BBS -=*=- UseNet FTN Gateway (1:2320/1)    |
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