This is So big
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 12:23 pm
Yo, Gene!Hi Allen,
I'm less despondant than you are. Aside from my long posts on this forum being lost whenver I hit the "submit" button, my internet experience has been just ducky.
You must be single. Stay that way because you don't want to know what you are missing.I get on whenever I want, go wherever I want, view whatever I want and downlaod whatever I want.
You’ve made comments to me about my choice of Drudgereport, newsmax, men’s daily, time, etc., before and I understand that is what you are referring to with the use of your word "propaganda." You are leaning a little to the left on that one, and if so, I assure you that those readings occupy a small percentage of my web time. Most of my webtime is of a bleeding-edge technical nature as I research such things as as c/c++, UNIX/Linux, math, geometric relationships, computers stuff in general, and whatever I’m involved with at work with tremendously long lists of URL links in those areas and virtually nothing left for fun and exploration, or for the "propaganda," as you put it.Knowldege and information is at my fingertips, and not just propaganda or made-up stuff either.
However, I’m recently finding out that mine, perhaps a significant portion of them, are not [getting to…], and that is what my bitch [vent] is all about. I may send out a high volume of resumes when I am looking for a new assignment, but when, say, the response is unhealthily low and I need to revert to the landline to start making connections, something is very wrong. When friends, acquaintances, and business try to reach me via email and I find out they aren’t then something is wrong with the picture as well.My e-mails get to where they are going,
You ARE in a small group. Story time...and as I mentioned before, in my 18 years of on-line connectivity I've never been infected with a virus.
Again, you are spoiled-fortunate in that respect.And for spam, my delete key works just fine.
Maybe that’s where the difference lies!!!Of course, I don't have the exposure that you or GEM has (like getting tons of e-mail everyday),
Spam has finally figured how to pass through the spam checkers. Along with it spam carries all sorts of unwanted, even the ability to control your computer from remote. Frankly, I’m fed up with those aggravating inconveniences, and there becomes a time to cut the losses [of time and patience].but the minor inconveniences I put up with when I log on are more than mitigated by the truly great things I can do when I'm there.
The internet has finally and fruitfully fulfilled that "promise" to the multitudes, Gene.For me, using a computer, connected to the internet, fulfills a promise of computing made to me a generation ago when I first started.
A a high-speed internet connection just helps the unwanteds get to you in Va-voom style plus opens up more doors for them to get through and demands the usage of firewalls.And just wait until I get a high-speed connection! Va-voom!
Roger, over and out.GEM,
Durnglebits!!! Had me fooled and foiled.I wasn't referring to your choice of
Yeah!!! You read it more'n I do.And would it interest you to know that I read the Newsmax website every day
Just keep polishing your lucky charm. I wish I had one sometimes.Maybe I'm just lucky, computer-wise, I guess...
It will probably takes something really bad, or a series of really bad somethings to bring about a new level of improvement.And I look forward to the next revolution in internet connectivity, and let's hope it doesn't take a "blackout"-style catastrophy to bring it about.