I read all the new post on RMS yesterday and today there wern't any. Tonight i
see 6. Is it just me or is AOL filtering newsgroups? They filter everything
else which in some cases is good but this if thats what they are doing, is
going to far. There is for example a re: to a post by modlehawk I didn't see
the orginal post. One of many originals i keep missing.
After observing what AOL do (from outside) for a couple of decades, I'd
see it more as their usual random incompetence.
I doubt they are capable of the cognitive levels required to attempt
censorship, even at the simple level of book-burning.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
And Mad-Modeller opened up and revealed to the
world news: snipped-for-privacy@nextline.com:
Bill,
Ouch, that's bad, and just PLAIN wrong. Not to mention the way that they
harass a person into staying with the "family."
I'm sorry but I don't think that anyone really needs them to "hold" their
hand and "guide" them through the "wild and untamed" relam of the
Internet. . .
IF it was me I'd have sent them a bill for the removal service, and let
THEM pay.
IIRC Aohell stop you from networking your machines etc so you cant share a
line.
never heard anything good about them, its the usual case of big tv ads to
get people saying wow look how good they must be.
And "Julian 'Penny for the guy' Hales"
opened up and revealed to the world
news:CWlFd.80378$ snipped-for-privacy@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
Julian,
I'm not sure but I think that one can now network their various boxes. As
I seem to recall one of my teachers talking about doing just that when I
was going to school down in Fl for my MCSE.
I couildn't for the life of me and STILL can't understand how OR why
someone who has their MSCE would maintain an AOheLl account. BUT a few of
them did. I mean knowing what they know, WHY would any self-respecting
MSCE keep an account with a bunch of lying two-faced, harassing SOBs, BUT
they do.
Oh, here's another one of AOheLls commericals that I just "love." It's
the one where everyone is saying what they'd "love" to happen to their
computers, and how AOheLl is the best thing to come down the pike since
white bread. . .
And Al Superczynski opened up and revealed to the
world news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Al,
This is true, but I've gotta agree with you in that I'd also still pay for
an account with a real ISP.
Ok, call me dumb, but what's the difference?
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your
eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to
return. --Leonardo Da Vinci
EAA # 729686
delete the word spam from email addy
And snipped-for-privacy@aol.comspam (TimeTraveler658) opened up and revealed
to the world news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m29.aol.com:
AOheLl is an online service because they repackage the Internet into what
THEY think that people want/need/should have access to. As well as (at
least in the early days) restricted ones choice of software to THEIR
software. Whereas with an ISP the customer can choose what software they
want to use, and have full (although some ISPs can and do "filter" some
content) access to the Internet.
And "Gary R. Schmidt" opened up and revealed to the
world news:cQtFd.4505$ snipped-for-privacy@nasal.pacific.net.au:
Gary,
That's a good one, and it's right up there with:
Uncle Sam Ain't Released me Yet
Or
Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up
And snipped-for-privacy@some.domain (e) opened up and revealed to the world
news:jWEFd.716032$ snipped-for-privacy@news.easynews.com:
e,
I've had to unplug my Grandmother's TV because unfortunatly thanks to her
Alzheimer's she can't tell what's real and what isn't on TV anymore. That
and here Poughkeepsie pretty much the only news we get on TV is about
what's happening down in the City. So there's no sense in her worrying
about something that for the most part doesn't apply to us.
We spend our day sitting at the dining room table she working on her word
search puzzles, me helping her every now and then. And me working on my
models, cooking our meals, surfing the Net, etc.
TV is ok, and has it's place, but sadly we as a nation spend WAY too much
time watching it. We need to learn how to unplug it and push it way and
do something else. Although as "electronic babysitters" go a TV is way
and BY far a MUCH better "electronic babysitter" then a computer with Net
access. Maybe IF more parents felt that way there'd be a LOT less trolls
in the NGs.
probably. too many kids use tv as roll models and for moral
lessons. i blame that on the decline of civility, the first
sign a civilization is dying. when me generation ethics
become the norm, civilization is heded for the toilet.
kids have no manners, no ability to wait and little reason
to respect the images they see.
i'm not blameless, now that i live alone i use tv for
background. while i model or play with my pc. you probably
know i post and listen to much music...tv is on with the
sound off when i encode and record. that might be a bad
sign....
"i don't think it's funny no more, crackin' up, like a worn
out shoe."
-joe jackson
I used AOL when I first got online, mostly because a local friend
of mine had it and so I was already familiar with it. I got hooked up
with a real ISP in less than a year...
Yes, but neither of those are empirical truths.
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"Empirical" is used here in the philosophical sense of "holds true for
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Cheers,
Gary B-)
i was lucky, my neighbor started neighbor net by running a
cable from his 3rd floor apt to mine. he was an old hand and
gave me the scoop on isp's. we used earthlink then. they
were great, but now they're an assholeonline wannabe.
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