2nd May 2006, 5:56 PM
Here's the thing. A super long fence is just idiotic. It's nice that so far the group building the thing is freelance funding it themselves at any rate, but it is still foolish.
I seem to recall some other country attempting to divide their land from those they didn't want coming in with a massive wall of some sort. That didn't work out too well for them. I'm thinking... something about China? Then again that "wall" was actually many different projects in different eras, some of it now underground, and none of the different projects connected (and certainly not visible from space, at least not in the way that's often said, because it is visible from space in the same way my house is).
Oh, let's build a fence. Might as well wall off our nation with a red velvet rope like it's a museum exibit.
I seem to recall some other country attempting to divide their land from those they didn't want coming in with a massive wall of some sort. That didn't work out too well for them. I'm thinking... something about China? Then again that "wall" was actually many different projects in different eras, some of it now underground, and none of the different projects connected (and certainly not visible from space, at least not in the way that's often said, because it is visible from space in the same way my house is).
Oh, let's build a fence. Might as well wall off our nation with a red velvet rope like it's a museum exibit.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)