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Then the whole postcard could be a flexible battery and screen.
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Certainly, you are aware that the USPS is not government funded, right? They are entirely reliant upon revenue from customers, not taxes or federal funding.
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Big Government has never done any good. I mean look at the highways and bridges and americas infrastructure. There are plenty of countries as spread out as ours and with the same population that have done it way better without the use of the Government let me list those for you...
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No doubt we'd have some semblance of networked infrastructure (ie FIDOnet) but it was DARPA that paved the way for the ARPANET packet-switching network that grew up and became "teh intarwebz" we know and love today.
Sometimes the kids today forget where it all came from, and forget just how much of what they take for granted has foundations and groundwork laid by the government, or colleges and corporations via government grant money.
I wonder how well the OP, or any of us, would get along without "snail mail" for 6 months.
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He may be snickered at in various circles, for his various passionate beliefs, but any internet geek who knows the history, will clearly recognize that Gore has been highly influential in educating Washington about the importance of high speed telecommunications networking, and specifically the "internet" we know today.
As for "potato," that was Dan Quayle. Sarcasm? Not sure I see the connection other than both being VPs.
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They do a damn fine job.
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For that matter, why send mail at all?!
No, seriously, what's the point of paper mail again? Other than bills and junk mail?
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Legal contracts, internet purchases, gifts, delivery of credit cards, people who have no internet/e-mail, wedding invites/RSVPs/thank-yous, Netflix, correspondance with members of the armed forces, payments that you don't want to be late but don't really want to pay "on-time", filing state taxes for free, greeting cards, postcards from exotic vacation spots (even though in many cases the cards won't arrive until you're already back from your trip), and because there are still Luddites and Amish in this world. Did I miss anything?
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Whoops, I did forget one. "To Whom it May Concern" letters that you want someone to actually pay attention to. E-mails are easy to fire off with very little effort involved, and they're treated accordingly.
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There was no space pen program.
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