Jack May spake thus:
> "Bolwerk" wrote in message
> news:uUpvh.1354$Jz5.545@newsfe11.lga...
>
>>Jack May wrote:
>>
>>>"SMS" wrote in message
>>>news:45b9a631$0$68986$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
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>>>>Calif Bill wrote:
>
>>They already did that. That's how we ended up with so many highways in
>>the first place.
>
> The highways are an inherent result of technology evolution, society needs,
> and normal progress. Trying to hold on to past with obsolete technology
> always fails in a free society.
So, Jack, you're saying that our highway system just sort of, naturally,
evolved? Is that right?
And here I always thought it (specifically, the interstate highway
system) came about because *people planned it*. And not just people, but
big, powerful, famous, influential people, like Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Silly me! They're just an "inherent result" of evolution. Technology
evolved, and then one day, *Poof!* there were highways.
So was it some sort of intelligent design that evolved the highway system?
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Don't talk to me, those of you who must need to be slammed in the
forehead with a maul before you'll GET IT that Wikipedia is a
time-wasting, totality of CRAP...don't talk to me, don't keep bleating
like naifs, that we should somehow waste MORE of our lives writing a
variorum text that would be put up on that site.
It is a WASTE OF TIME.
- Harlan Ellison, writing on the "talk page" of his Wikipedia article
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