HW: what's happening....

[Steve Swann]

No national postal service, but high speed Internet...

Reminds me of when I was in Mumbai.  The part of the city near the
bay... well, let's just say that you can smell the lack of sanitation.
 As we were driving to the hotel, we saw everywhere men women and
children digging in that red clay they have for soil... I asked our
host what all the digging was about.  He said, "They're laying fiber
optic cable."  So I jokingly asked him "Wouldn't it make more sense to
lay some sewer lines?"  He said, "The fiber optic cable will pay for
the sewer lines."

Steve

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Carl Edlund Anderson<cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> On 08 Jul 2009, at 17:32, stevepxr5 at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>> Where do you live Carl, and why is it so nearly impossible for you to get
>> CD's in the post?? I'm sure I could send it to you, and if I could........
>
>
> I live in Colombia, South America. :)  That's not nearly so dramatic
> sounding as TV and Hollywood would paint it (though it was probably even
> more dramatic than that about 15 years ago), but there is no national postal
> system, digital media get slapped with very high import taxes (not books,
> though), and my house actually has no official postal address.  That said,
> books and letters sent to my mum-in-law's flat (which does have an address
> :)) from abroad have a very good record of actually arriving, but CDs and
> DVDs are scarcely worth the risk vs. the expense.  (Digital media are more
> likely to go AWOL than English-language printed matter! ;)
>
> On the other hand, I have perfectly fine high-speed Internet that may
> actually be more reliable than the service I had in the UK.  (As usual in
> the developing world, when the new tech starts to arrive, it arrives as
> _new_ tech, with no legacy systems to work around or on top of, and so it
> actually tends to work surprisingly well.)  Therefore, I look forward more
> than ever to the day when buying lossless downloads are the norm. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
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> Carl Edlund Anderson
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>