reminds me of that Seinfeld where Maestro and Elaine go to Tuscany and Jerry talks about he might go too, and they say it's all booked, and he doesn't believe it, and he starts asking, just for info, and he gets stuck with a rental he can't refuse from some Italian in a white fedora, and its right next door to elaine
so...uh...rent from the mob
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.