Re: Change One Thing
In article <1131323975.815882.75730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx says...
>r.rice@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> See, I would disagree here. Planet big, colony small would, to me,
>> encourage people to clump together. If nothing else, do you really
>> want to drive 4000 miles to pick up your date for the dance?
>I believe Bill Gates told his newspaper column audience (I don't know
>if he still does it) that he dated by phone. His date was elsewhere in
>the country. They'd go see a movie together, but not in the same
>cinema.
I take it there was a cellphone involved? Homicide seems justifed...
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