[1640] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] RE: Mandatory T passes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ike)
Fri Oct 21 16:36:27 2005
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:09:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
To: grace <gkenney@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58L.0510211440480.1681@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu>
cc: Diandra Lucia <dmariel@MIT.EDU>
cc: ec-discuss@MIT.EDU
cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, grace wrote:
> > [fucking typical that the first time any undergrad hears about this is in
> a tech article though.]
>
> -grace
I hope I'm just missing some sarcasm here (although that would mean the
rest of this email is even more of a waste of words), but did you read the
article? ( http://www-tech.mit.edu/V125/N48/48tpass.html ) The change
isn't even in the planning stage; it's just been discussed on some GSC
lists, and according to some GSC person, MIT and the MBTA have "expressed
interested in potentially implementing the proposal".
So, I think a Tech article is the right place to hear about it, and this
is the right time to have a discussion about it. The Tech article even
covers some of the points that have been playing over this email thread
like a broken record (i.e., "This idea rocks!" vs. "These collectivist
scum would make Ayn Rand angry enough to spin in her grave if she believed
in an afterlife and if she could profit by hooking herself up to a
generator and selling the electricity on the free market."). This
situation is completely and beautifully different from, say, the mandatory
meal plan fiasco, or any number of other things that have been announced
when they're just shy of being implemented. This *can't* even happen until
2007, and it's not a real plan yet anyway.
-Ike
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