[Info-vax] Latest TCPIP Services seem irreparably horked...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote 2012-03-05 21:31:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  wrote:
>
> (snip)
>>> This seems most peculiar! What legal theory holds that a manufacturer in,
>>> say, France, has a duty to supply right hand drive vehicles for use in the
>>> UK? It may be profitable for them to do so but I have trouble
>>> seeing a duty there.
>
>>> It's my understanding that this situation is ancient history,
>
>> Driving on the wrong side? I don't think so. :-)
>
>>> the Brits finally joined the rest of the world. Seems to me
>>> it was twenty or more years ago.
>
> They joined the rest of the world using (mostly) metric units
> and a decimal based currency about 40 years ago, but still drive
> on that other side.
>
> It must be interesting to go into the chunnel on one side of
> the road, and come out on the other.
>

You do that with the car on the train. So you can study the
"other-side-driving" while resting on the tunnel-train. :-)

My doughter is currently on a 2 week holliday in NZ with
a friend and they hired a car. Fetched the car in the middle
of Aukland in the morning traffic for the first left-side
driving ever (sitting in the right)... :-) She said it
was "fun"... Currently on the south-island of NZ.


> -- glen
>