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   From: JRStern@foobar.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:23:52 +1300, Your Name    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article , JRStern   
   > wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:21:57 +1300, Your Name    
   >> wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >I can't find the original message, but somewhere along the long winding   
   >> >route of the sci-fi predicting the future topics it detoured onto   
   >> >methods of travel and people today often having longer work commutes.   
   >> >   
   >> >In yesterday's local newspaper there was an article about a man in the   
   >> >UK who travels for three hours to work (and three hours to get home   
   >> >again) every weekday by car. He travels about 160,000km / 99,419 miles   
   >> >every year and has to get up at 3:30am to travel from South Wales to   
   >> >almost London. It costs him about £15,000  / US$24,660 per year, which   
   >> >includes and £1,600 in toll fees and £900 per month for diesel fuel,   
   >> >plus the usual car licensing, etc.   
   >> >   
   >> >By horse, that commute would have taken days, and on foot it would have   
   >> >taken weeks if not months.   
   >>   
   >> By Internet he would already be there.   
   >   
   >Unless he uses Windows, in which case he'd be stuck in a Blue Screen of   
   >Death traffic jam every 10 minutes.  ;-)   
   >   
   >I don't know exactly what his job is , but it says he the "head of   
   >design at a large-format printing company". It also says he uses the   
   >travel time to "take important conference calls - hands free of   
   >course".   
      
   Well I suppose he could equip a tour bus with a nice office, prototype   
   lab, living quarters for him and a guest, and have a professional   
   driver keep him moving 24x7.   
      
   J.   
      
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