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Re: More BW, Less Taxes

  • From: Jim Mercer
  • Date: Wed May 30 07:55:18 2001 
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:42:38PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
> At 12:27 AM 5/30/2001 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
> >but then again, there are probably far fewer errant backhoes in the atlantic.
> 
> They're called anchors and fishing boats in sea cables. One local operator 
> has there own chopper and patrol boat to chase them away (there are also 
> major 600MW power cables close by). Usually the damage is done at night 
> when "there were no boats nearby" - honest, I was at home in bed......

hmmm, yeah, i guess that is fairly equivilent.

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