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How The Postman Almost Owned E-Mail

Thrawn writes "'Imagine that the U.S. Postal Service was in charge of e-mail. Sound absurd? It does to most people until they realize that it almost happened.' " I think the chance of it actually happening are massively overstated in this article, but it's still an interesting "What If". But about as likely, as say, The Confederacy ? winning the US Civil War ? .

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  1. WHA!!! by clinko · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh you think you're baddass, but the south shall rise again!!!!

    (what is the point of karma if it's "good" "excellent" whatever. I'm a computer guy, I want numbers. What's the url to that ass-wide-open guy?)

  2. Re:What? by ZxCv · · Score: 1, Troll

    The, ahem, War of Northern Aggression hasn't been lost yet. The South shall rise again!

    Only to get their sorry hick asses beat down again!

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    Perl - $Just @when->$you ${thought} s/yn/tax/ &couldn\'t %get $worse;
  3. on that second what if.. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe we should let the south seperate? I mean, all the conservatives could have their backwards, broken, primitive nation full of fundi christians, and all the liberals could have their progressive, broken, but modern nation full of, well, liberals. We could just break the states down by geographic area into a gradient of government types.. the far north could be the extremely liberal, tree hugging libertarians, the mid-america region could be your moderates, and florida could be filled with george bush fsck-the-constitution supporters. :)