Cyclists die

Kevin said:

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I wish people would use decent newsreading software and not post chopped up links. Here it
is complete:

Driver arrested in death of two cross-country bikers
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Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

How much would you care to wager that this slime-ball already had a DUI driving record? The (only)
good part is that apparently they are going to play hard-ball with him.

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- GRL

"It's good to want things."

Steve Barr (philosopher, poet, humorist, chemist, Visual Basic programmer)
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:27:16 -0700, Kevin <[email hidden]> wrote:

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links. Here it is complete:

Driver arrested in death of two cross-country bikers

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Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

D.L. said:

Or, better yet, use www.tinyurl.com to shorten the URL for posting so people's newsreaders such as
slrn don't wrap around, making it difficult to cut and paste into a browser:

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The only problem with that being that the tinyurl's expire, so any people looking at archived posts
with google won't be able to use them. Of course you could post both. And some people might view the
expiration as a benefit.

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Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g When they took the Fourth Amendment, I
was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I was quiet because I was
innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun. Now they've
taken the First Amendment and I can't say anything.

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D.L. said:

Or, better yet, use www.tinyurl.com to shorten the URL for posting so people's newsreaders such
as slrn don't wrap around, making it difficult to cut and paste into a browser:

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The only problem with that being that the tinyurl's expire, so any people looking at archived
posts with google won't be able to use them. Of course you could post both. And some people might
view the expiration as a benefit.

tinyurl claims that they won't expire -- you can decide how much you believe them. If that is
the case, as the service becomes more popular and used more and more, their URLs will cease to
be so tiny.

Another reason to post both the original URL and the "tiny" one is that some people are afraid to
open, or are blocked from opening, tinyurls. You may claim the url is a nice little website about
bicycling in the rain, but evilly, you have made a tiny a url about vegetable worship and ritual
sacrifice (ebeneezer.netvegetableOpen ↗).

I try to remember to post both.

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky Home of the meditative cyclist: home.earthlink.netWelcome.htmOpen ↗

Claire Petersky said:

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The only problem with that being that the tinyurl's expire, so any people looking at archived
posts with google won't be able to use them. Of course you could post both. And some people might
view the expiration as a benefit.

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tinyurl claims that they won't expire -- you can decide how much you believe them. If that is
the case, as the service becomes more popular and used more and more, their URLs will cease to
be so tiny.

Doh! I thought they did for some reason. Of course, then there is the argument about whether the
service will exist in five years (fire / flood / famine / bankruptcy / overthrow by sentient
machines [1]). The address space expands exponentially with each additional digit, so it should be
compact for quite a while.

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Another reason to post both the original URL and the "tiny" one is that some people are afraid to
open, or are blocked from opening, tinyurls. You may claim the url is a nice little website about
bicycling in the rain, but evilly, you have made a tiny a url about vegetable worship and ritual
sacrifice (ebeneezer.netvegetableOpen ↗).

Sigh. No pictures of thousands of carrots in a seething, roaring mass committing horrible acts of
immorality in a demonic orgy? I feel like I should cry "False Advertising!". 😉

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I try to remember to post both.

That's been my practice in the past.

[1] I for one welcome our new Robotic Masters.

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Dane Jackson - z u v e m b i @ u n i x b i g o t s . o r g Despising machines to a man, The Luddites
joined up with the Klan, And ride out by night In a sheeting of white To lynch all the robots they
can. -- C. M. and G. A. Maxson