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Post subject: Today's Question: What's Your Thought On The Internet?
 Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 08:11 AM
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| I personally luv it, but it can have hidden and visible dangers. |
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Post subject: my use
Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 10:35 AM
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I use the internet for:
1) Reading Roger Ebert's movie reviews; IMDb reviews sometimes
2) William Shatner BBS
3) Research for my fiction
4) Ordering products (when I have the money)
5) Job hunting (when I don't have money)
6) Listening to French radio stations
7) Checking the Sci Fi Wire for science fiction news
 Online banking (when I'm juggling five cents to create the illusion of ten cents)
9) Travel information and maps (usually for others)
10) Checking TV listings (mostly to see if Enterprise is a rerun this week)
With rare exception, that's it for me. The research can get interesting at times. My most recent research had to do with Joan of Arc, and I found a very good site on her.
Of course, I use the e-mail often. But that's not, strictly speaking, the internet. |
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Post subject: the eight ball
Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 10:37 AM
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| Gee, I noticed that the "eight + close parentheses" became an "emoticon." Apparently, there are codes for those little yellow faces. Probably to dissuade us from lists that go beyond #7. |
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Post subject: Re: Today's Question: What's Your Thought On The Internet?
Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 02:33 PM
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| robinsky wrote: | | I personally luv it, but it can have hidden and visible dangers. |
Wonderland, candy store, Library of Congress,
Matrix.....
....if I'd had it when I was in school, I would have been President....Peg |
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Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 04:22 PM
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It is exactly what we make of it.
Jo being cerebral again.
(Admit it , some of you did not think I could spell cerebral)...  |
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Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 04:24 PM
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| joains wrote: | It is exactly what we make of it.
Jo being cerebral again.
(Admit it , some of you did not think I could spell cerebral)... |
Ah! So THAT'S how it's spelled...
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Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 04:41 PM
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Location: "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."~ G.K.C
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A) There such a thing of Too Much Knowledge in regards to Criminal minds.
B) Need to change all the perky-tit, tight-ass-blonde-bimbo sites (ref. Porn) from '.com' to ".sex", make it a LAW, that all porn sites have to be under the ".sex" or they will be shut down. By doing this, there would not be a problem blocking the stuff from the youth and all the pop-up crap! |
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Posted: Nov 12, 2002 - 07:02 PM
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The internet has, in the six years that I've had it, been an invaluable tool for the continuation of my education, the research of my family history, the formation of friendships, and the opportunities that it has given to me in publishing some of my writing.
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Posted: Nov 13, 2002 - 02:14 AM
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| The internet can be fun like going on your favorite websites. The internet can be dirty and dangerous. |
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Post subject: Thoughts on the Internet
Posted: Nov 13, 2002 - 06:06 AM
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Sad to say, but it was a boon to me. I work nights and I go sometimes days (weeks?) at a time and the only other people I see are my co-workers. We're so bored with each other, I guess, that while we sit literally feet apart, we send emails to each other. Like "I'm going to get a coke...want anything?" Or "You're too quiet tonight....you mad at me?" Replys or silly comments go on like this for the the whole 12.5 hour shift. We even email questions or comments about what is going on with our work. The internet has made us lazy. I have email and chat group friends all over the world that I talk to on a regular basis. Yet I haven't spoken to my neighbor in months. I live by emails, faxes, and the answering machine. Its my contact with the world. I shop, bank and socialize on the computer. Its gotten to the point where I have to 'buy' my time to just sit and play around on the internet. For every hour on my arse in front of the new 'boob-tube' (the monitor) I do an hour on the treadmill. We're not 'couch-potatoes' anymore...I'm a 'mouse-potato.'
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