-------------------------------------------- On Thu, 6/18/15, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML] Question To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 9:18 AM > On Jun 18, 2015, at 8:56 AM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote: > >> >> Rather like the Internet, a few years later... > > IMO, a large, strong, heavily-industrialized polity needs a robust infrastructure. It's just that everyone would rather someone else paid for it. :/ Funny that :-) > > ObTrav: the X-Boat network - its creation, maintenance, and (proposed) upgrades, and funding for all of the above. > I think that’s *precisely* why the ISSS are the folks in “charge” of the XBoat system…I see it as the equivalent of the US Post Office. The Emperors have figured out that getting a universal J4 communications/delivery system into place means that a) their J6 couriers always get there faster :-) and they don’t have multiple streams of private information carriers to tap :-P ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ah-Hah! Now we finally know the 'Real'(tm) reason that the J6 XBoat upgrade mentioned in early TNS dispatches was never carried thru to fruition! ===============================================================================
