On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
I'm still waiting for the time-warp telephone, for calling before the event happens. But the causality loops lead to all sorts of paradoxes. What if you go back in time and prevent Catapiller from building the backhoe? With no excavating equipment what would have buried the fiber? So there would be no fiber to get dug up, and no reason to stop the backhoe from being built. Which ....
Maybe we should have these one-call utility line/main marking services cross-reference who's fiber they're tagging, and give the respective carriers a heads-up warning before actual excavating begins... :) --- Bryan Wann bwann@cwis.net CWIS Internet Services http://www.cwis.net Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime; Enlighten him further, and he opens a chain of seafood restaurants