[78-L] Internet as tollway (was Re: Met Opera on the web)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter at cpl.net>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> Hey...if the "information highway" is going to become a 
>> tollway...whyinell
>> ain't
>> I entitled to my share...?!)
> It has long been a tollway. Some choose to pay the toll for the riders,
> others to ask for payment from them. You are entitled to ask for
> payment; whether you get it is up to your visitors/riders.
>
Well...I <deleted> object to this development!!

We are already headlong into the NEXT DEPRESSION...which will make
1930-38 seem like a picnic in the park...WHY?! Because greed won out over
coherent thought...and a whole bunch of fundamental orifices THOUGHT they
had whole bunches of IMAGINARY money...which worked up until they
tried to COLLECT the s**t!!

Sadly, the one weakness of Homo Sapiens is that, as a primate species,
we maintain a dominance hierarchy! Fortunately, religion eliminated the
physical aspects of this competition...sadly, money (easily quantified, and
thus easily compared) took the place of physical competition (sports
leagues exempted here...?!).

I will be happily observing as all the current fools suddenly have to
figure out how to prepare stacks of currency to make them edible...!!

Serves the muthafuyers right...?!

Steven C. Barr