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- From: tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller)
- Subject: Re: And on the subject of Internet bandwidth...
- In-Reply-To: beh@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu's message of 23 Nov 92 00: 25:21 GMT
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- Sender: daemon@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: AL/HRTI, Brooks AFB
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:06:57 GMT
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- On 23 Nov 92 00:25:21 GMT, beh@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Bruce Howells) said:
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- B> Then I saw the sender. Nope, can't be important.
-
- I love you too, Brucey.
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- B> Lots of wire... Lots of gateways... Lots of packets.
-
- csd.bu.edu happens to be the best balance between hops and ping
- times that I've been able to find from this backwater of a network to
- *any* irc server. You find me a closer one as fast, I'll use it.
-
- B> Good to know that tax money we (or at least those of us enough in
- B> the real world to be paying taxes - and worrying how to pay
- B> taxes...)
-
- Oh, come off it. I pay the same taxes you do, I work more
- hours, do more work, and get paid less for it. Get off your damn high
- horse.
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- B> spend for Internet research... spend to make sure the US
- B> keeps leading the research effort into (horrors!) useful uses for
- B> technology is going to exactly where it was meant to...
-
- B> NOT.
-
- It might interest you to know that I'm researching AI in
- training technology, both for the USAF and for use in US public school
- system. In fact, one of our major efforts is the use of computer based
- training to help teach fundamental skills of reading, writing, and
- science, utilizing AI to model the students and adapt the teaching
- techniques. Personally, I don't know anyone else doing much similar to
- our work here. I'd say that's leading research effort into useful uses
- for technology going exactly where it's meant to. Still want to be
- sarcastic?
-
- B> Hope you're enjoying yourself, Tim... Just remember next time you
- B> hit a keystroke... I paid for that Telnet packet.
-
- You and I *both* know, Bruce, that you *and* I paid for that
- telnet packet, and would have paid for it if I used it or not.
-
- B> Enjoy your afternoon- Bruce Howells, beh@acs.bu.edu
- B> bruce@vmcms.bgs.com Just another software professional.
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- Enjoy your life- Tim Miller, tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil
- tjm@csa.bu.edu Just another Computer Science researcher.
-