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The Bermuda Triangle of Cycling: L.A. to N.Y. to Miami
On 4/13/2011 6:05 AM, ATP wrote:
"Harry wrote in message ... [...] Seems that ALL of those delivery riders do it on a day to day basis. And I am sure that they have their problems. But, if it's as bad as YOU say it is, businesses like that wouldn't last long.... I just joined the thread. I'm not sure how bad it is, but those businesses can keep on going as long as there are young men willing to be messengers. The real enemies of the bicycle messenger business are scanners, PDFs, electronic signatures, and email. -- Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731,-83.985007 I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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The Bermuda Triangle of Cycling: L.A. to N.Y. to Miami
"Tºm ShermªnT °_°" " wrote in message ... On 4/13/2011 6:05 AM, ATP wrote: "Harry wrote in message ... [...] Seems that ALL of those delivery riders do it on a day to day basis. And I am sure that they have their problems. But, if it's as bad as YOU say it is, businesses like that wouldn't last long.... I just joined the thread. I'm not sure how bad it is, but those businesses can keep on going as long as there are young men willing to be messengers. The real enemies of the bicycle messenger business are scanners, PDFs, electronic signatures, and email. True, although a few things will still have to be delivered by hand. I was just thinking that accidents aren't such a problem for the companies if the messengers work as independent contractors and can be replaced. The companies don't bear the cost of the accidents as I doubt many (if any) are regular employees with worker's comp. |
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The Bermuda Triangle of Cycling: L.A. to N.Y. to Miami
On Apr 16, 11:11*am, Tºm Shermªn™ °_° ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI
$southslope.net" wrote: On 4/13/2011 6:05 AM, ATP wrote: "Harry *wrote in message .. . [...] Seems that ALL of those delivery riders do it on a day to day basis. And I am sure that they have their problems. *But, if it's as bad as YOU say it is, businesses like that *wouldn't last long.... I just joined the thread. I'm not sure how bad it is, but those businesses can keep on going as long as there are young men willing to be messengers. The real enemies of the bicycle messenger business are scanners, PDFs, electronic signatures, and email. How about if you want to deliver some pot on time? I learned that from Quicksilver. |
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The Bermuda Triangle of Cycling Newsgroups
Digested-and-Excreted-Banana-For-Brains writes:
Read the comments from *all over the nation* before denying everything. What is this, false too? "Last September, in Maryland, Natasha Pettigrew, a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, was training at dawn for a triathlon when she was fatally struck by a Cadillac Escalade. ..." =v= I do keep on top of the nation's bicycle news, and I got word of this from reputable sources last September, when it happened. Such sources did not attempt to turn this tragedy into some kind of support for their agenda of spreading fear about an insane concocted fictional Bermuda Triangle scenario. (For the record, one data point proves nothing whatsover, hard as that may be for insane scenario-concocters to comprehend.) =v= Let me also add that I would never dream of abiding by any imperative "Read ..." statement from this lunatic, who first went by the name "Millenium Twain" and is now rotating his moniker so as to insult Tibetans, primates, beaches, cruisers, philosophy, majesty, comandantes, and the venerable banana. =v= I hope to disabuse this character of any delusion that I bother to read any of his stuff. In fact I usually employ a convoluted tangle of Lisp to ignore not only his (generally totally off-topic cross-)postings and any subthread that he participates in. The downside of this approach is that I have, over time, stored this nutcase's every Message-ID. Given his obvious OCD and shear output, it has grown into a *plonk*file of enormous proportions. I have cleared it out to start anew, which is why I'm even in this thread. =v= So in conclusion, go and do likewise, share and enjoy. _Jym_ |
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