On Jul 28, 2008, at 9:54 AM, John Levine wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
you write:
Sort of makes one wonder how the US came to have ubiquitous roads, or
power, or water distribution...
Oh, but that's different. They were important.
Or, to be more specific, people everywhere need power and water and
were willing to pay for them, so other people started companies to
provide them everywhere. Roads are a little more complicated - the
basic roads were there due to demand, but the highways got built
because the Army argued that without highways they couldn't move
troops and supplies to defend the country in case of an invasion. The
same trick got science funded for a while... :-)
