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From: Randy Bush <[email protected]> To: "Scott Weeks" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:14:51 -1000 > > The internet is global and without boundries. The US > > highway system is domestic with boundries. > > the history of the interstate bill is quite interesting. > among other things, it killed the trains, contributed to > the degredation of the inner cities, ... and guess which > industries lobbied it through. > > and why does oahu have interstate highways, anyway? All 56 miles of it, you mean? Be careful on that H-1, it's over 27 miles long. Might run outta gas... ;-) It's in the "Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960...right between Opium Poppy Control Act and shortly before a passage headed Purchases of Typewriters" http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_129.html. Ever wonder why it's called the "National System of Interstate and *Defense* Highways"? Rhetorical question... Following NANOG methodology of late, we could make an analogy to a MAN here. Cars are packets, malformed data inside many packets >:-( MAJOR congestion at peak loads, no timing on the line, etc. scott
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