On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
If you need to get from, say, Houston to Seattle, in less than a full day, how is driving an option?
Farm the work out. Or pass on the job. Or take a plane. Or drive - the are *all* options. None of them are *requirements*.
Remember the buses. Remember what happened when "them negroes got uppity and stopped taking the bus"?
Those were local transit buses, not intercity buses. Huge difference.
Scale of distance is the only difference. Either you support the system or you don't. I don't: I either drive to jobs (charging for mileage) or I pass on them, rather than take part in the police state that is todays air system. You have the very same choices. The argument eveyone is making here is that it is too much of an inconvenience (financial or otherwise), *not* to fly. Sorry, but that's just pure self-serving BS. You either work against the problem, or you live with the problem you have (a) helped to create and (b) actively work to maintain (with your ticket dollars). If you choose to maintain the system, then you have no business bitching when it turns it's jaundiced eyes towards you. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF Civilization is in a tailspin - everything is backwards, everything is upside down- doctors destroy health, psychiatrists destroy minds, lawyers destroy justice, the major media destroy information, governments destroy freedom and religions destroy spirituality - yet it is claimed to be healthy, just, informed, free and spiritual. We live in a social system whose community, wealth, love and life is derived from alienation, poverty, self-hate and medical murder - yet we tell ourselves that it is biologically and ecologically sustainable. The Bush plan to screen whole US population for mental illness clearly indicates that mental illness starts at the top. Rev Dr Michael Ellner