In a message dated 12/28/2002 9:29:08 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> You guys sound like a tryst of old men sitting around a pickle barrel 
>  thinking of ways to injure skateboarders. 

I said it before. I don't like pickles. Skateboarding is not a crime. Where 
you skateboard can be. Uven that XXX dude would agree with that.

> Do you know anyone that 
>  commutes on mass transit that has to wait 10-15 minutes for a bus to 
>  take them the last mile or two?  

Try 30 minutes in Tucson. All busses have front bike racks. Not all take 
wheelchairs; there's a special bus service one can use. Neither bus has a 
place for a segway right now.

>  Do you know any older people that have 
>  trouble getting around and are thus limited as to where they can go? 

Yup. And it is called getting a cab.  Because if you are talking too old to 
drive, the same skills are going to be needed for the segway.
 
>  Do 
>  you know anyone that lives less than five miles from work and drives a 
>  behemoth vehicle that can seat eight and gets 15 mpg or less?  

Yup. And every weekend he drives 20 to 200 miles for an SCA camping event.

>  Or are 
>  you just afraid of new tech?

Then what am I doing on the internet?

>  
>  Doug
>  
>  Sheesh

The segway will find its own nitch. It will not be a panacea replacement to 
be worshiped by the technophiles. I refuse to follow the bouncing Ba-al and 
sacrifice the current primary means of transport just yet.

But of course by playing up the cat pee propaganda, we expect to be getting 
three sheeshes to the winded.

:-)

William Taylor
----------------------
And thus goes the segway of all flesh, fowl
and good red herring.
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