Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Trouble with Paypal
Victor Churchill wrote: >
> That's because of all these overclocked PCs on new ultra fast
> broadband connection packages. There's too much traffic on the
> Interweb and they have to put in speed bumps to prevent collisions.
> Pretty soon it'll be like the traffic in Hong Kong [1] where you can
> only use it on alternate days depending on your surname.
>
> [1] ... I am sure I've "heard this somewhere". And it may well be a
> myth; it has that sort of taste about it.
>
>
I believe that was in Beijing for the Olympics, so that the
oxygen-breathing foreign athletes could see where they were going.
