Unplug ?!?!?

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  • Seriously .. i got to fret a bit. Lately i been considering just unplugging. What to do if i do ? Eeek!!! no clue.. Firstly let me say i am 42 , middle class midwestern USA genotype most of my lifetime within the same county of Illinois , St Clair County.. if no one knows the status or history of this St Louis Missouri region.. let's just say it is a shit-fit of the entire southern sector of the state, possibly the whole state. Economically it is bad , the skeletons of Eisenhower administration atemptual restructuring and the reversal of the obvious benefit as it began. What i mean is there are buildings still standing in our cities from race riots in the 1950s. All over the northern USA particularly. Now with that and the 5 generations past then, and more to come. this is a impoverished , violent, drug war battleground, crawling with Federal Agents.. lacking luster for invetsment.. think St Louis bourgeosie-politicos insult the recent Chinese investors themselves heh.  So ya get the picture of my locale ?
    Now i come from the age precursor of the Commodore 64 computer. All the way to now.
    This is where i have much problem.
    It is obvious the usage of broadband internet accessibilty in my studay here , that i would have to guess 80% of the signal is constanly monitored and assimililated into a regional computation.. usage of my personal internet .. paid for by me, has to be controlled and constanly used by the supernetwork.. Feds, chatter scans, NSA anti terror netting, not to mention local authorities time to time tapping the traffic.. seriously wtf can i use any of my own purchased node to node trnasfers ? am i right there ? They will fight terror in every microcosmic way , hell i am thinking they will not stop at 80% of the dollar to fight terror. As I feel the percentage is currently.
    Secondly i see not why i have to pay for my cable televison programming to get more better entertaining commercial advertisements interrupting the programming i select to " watch ". Why must i pay for programming and pay again for the advertisements? THese things make me really ponder the reason to even live in this country but i know it is better most likely here now during this technologically industrial age. I despise most of my fellow Americans to be honest . And certainly never will willing command my own existance and life to the suggestive directions of governance.. mobs rule i guess. Any 1% who are individual enough to attempt to live their own lives.. will not even be able remain the meak.
    So i do wonder lately should i just unplug ?

  • timwilcob, i think situation is globaly like that, but in many regions much worse, nowhere is better i think.

    We in Serbia have to pay for national TV channel here, something about $7 per month. The bill for it is tied to electricity bill, if you have electricity in your house it means you need to pay TV channel also. Add to it that there is nothing entertaining there to watch and bunch of very idiotic commercials popping up all the time and there is enough reasons to be pissed a lifetime.

    I feel like 30% of the people here dont have even basic literacy, most of the time i meet someone i have no clue wtf are they trying to say to me.

    Average income per employed person is something about $350-$400. If you get lucky enough to find a job.

    In last 5 years i havent manage to buy a single thing and get exactly what i payed. Internet connection inlcluded. Products of renown manufacturers for eastern markets are known to be much worse in quality.

    In America you get Dodge Challenger for around $24.000, in Europe you can buy stinking VW Golf for that money (i hope i dont need to mention significant differencies). Its just one simple example in viewpoint differencies. I hate Europe in every possible way, i feel cheated for every piece of technology product i buy.

    So, to unplug or not? I say yes, made a litlle "microsociety" of my own that includes my gf, my friends, my family and my dogs. Got a cottage on nearby mountain to spend some free weekends. I feel significantly, no, actualy exponentialy better. As long as i dont find a glimpse of inteligence outside my circle i have no desire to change anything.

  • World Wide Free Web ... Let Us Have Something Huh ? Heh..One Party's dogmatized imperialistic prejudice of international trade agreements of private persuasions in interests... sickening isn't this drtheoelen?

    Needless to say sir, literacy is simply governmental factoidal programming to create a more employable populace.. Hell my age in this local America have seen the birth of tech age with the first technicolor televeison and first microwave oven , straight to a very privileged and informed world wide bobulated population tuned into a live moonlanding also in uh hum technicolor.. hehe..hard to say it is even a " world " that we live.

  • The way i see it, there are two edges of internet today. Lets take some extremes into consideration. A sick pedophil will browse for child pornography, while an educated man with life and attitude will browse for intelectualy precious information of his/her interest. Question is, how to cleanse the web from the first without taking personal freedoms away. Something to think about.

    Also, i use terms like education or literacy to mark someones ability to function in civilized society, someone that has certain interests no matter what they are and at the same time has some accumulated knowledge about it. Can you imagine i met a guy when i served military who begged me to buy him a sandwich for his money, cause he didnt know how to count money in his pocket. Makes you kinda very sad to see such a thing.

  • You made me ponder something.. salt..many centuries ago, salt was just as valuable as gold, men would work long hard hours to have just a pinch of salt on their tables to add flavor to their food, food was what made people happy back then, they would go to any lengths not to waste even a grain, many men risked their lives in search of these comodies to bring us but also knowing they'd become very rich.... salt and pepper now sit on our tables in abundance probably grains scattered about the containers waiting to be wiped and tossed away without a second thought.. i beleive what we go through now is karma, possibly punishment, for not understanding,knowing and living the meaning of life.. we pay a high price for luxuries, some of their value is not even worth it..but evolution made us need them

  • I just wote another reply , but it was indeed lost . Or being on trial already.. screw this too not likely to post again anywhere soon.


  • I just wote another reply , but it was indeed lost . Or being on trial already.. screw this too not likely to post again anywhere soon.


    I had trouble posting too Tim (at around 1am this morning UK time), so please don't think it was censorship.   You would never be "on trial" on this forum - you should already know that!  

    I think you've opened up a very interesting topic and you're getting some sensible replies.  Nothing wrong in that.

    blue
  • Sounds like your having the "taxi driver" moment tim. And i don't think there is a one of us that don't at one time or another feel the same way. But unplug? No that would be giving up and goes against your character and integrity.

    I don't think any of us like the "big brother" is watching us that is happening right now. But i think drthe makes an amazing point in more ways than one. And it is certainly a lesson that Americans can learn from. Is the glass half empty or half full? Your fortune, you can have the luxury to afford internet where many don't.

    Our society has changed drastically and being controlled for the purpose of terrorism is living life in fear. In a way the very thing the government is trying to combat is a direct attack on us the people.

    The main focus is our lives is our family and our close friends and i couldn't agree with Drthe more with his comment. Let us not forget the dogs either  wink

    Life ain't ever gonna be what it was for our parents or our grandparents. Those were the days when a coke was still cola and joint was a bad place to be..........

    Lips
  • When my father was a kid, which was a bit after World war II, children played football all day long on a nearby plain with a ball made of squished old cloth and 4 rocks as goal markers. It was the only entertainment as he tells me back than.  And they were content, maybe even quite happy. Why cant we too with all that we have today cheesy

  • Exactly drtheolen! Could we all be just a little spoiled??

  • .. versus a real life example of a group of kids playing football in the street with a severed human head.. yea yea .. why are you , lipstick putting a moral spin on my thread as such in your demeanor of your response ? and that is all true and what surely began a very gratifying intelligent conversation with you , drtheolen. But don't stray from the true meat of this topic that i do consider myself unplugged from a resource stealing anti terror fund to keep this mad christian dominated american society of a so called happy shiny people theorem in full . . to me it would most certainly appear that my broadband , what isn't saturated and consumed in its volubility as if mandatory.. force feed.
    So little of this signal i may even fathom attempting to claim an ownership of. And where my node to node transfers and relativity are allowed to persist in it trade of values. Depends solely on prefered networks in trading partnerships.
    Tell you all what perhaps i would play a jestering devil here to berth the underlying and tormenting concept that exists .. a random value cannot be determined by a computer. It simply is an emulated result.

    transmission out ---

  • I must be missing something here because boy am I confused embarrassed dizzy

  • I am scratching my head because it sounds like a mad scienctist lab equation. Using intellecutal words does not constitute a form of intelligence if your audience can't decipher a damn thing being said. The fact that some people did post and try to make sense out of your concoction of thought processes deserves merit. As for me and most on this forum i bet it makes no sense at all.

  • Ok liquorman , never conversed with you on the forum before i don't think .. but i will now then .. screw you chump.. and as for the forum I think I am outsie .. bunch a bitties you are , as far as the one's who can carry a conversation , Drtheolen. Thank you sir. The rest of you that i have grown fond of farewell.


  • ....... farewell.


    What a shame.
  • Shame? Have you not seen how he has handled himself here? I'm flabbergasted that anyone would deem it a pity that timwilcob is "transmission out ---". Bitties? Intelligent conversation with one person? So everyone else that was kind enough to reply is unintelligent? I must be the most unintelligent of us all cause I don't get it!

  • I'm really stunned by your last reply and reaction Tim. First of the language used is not appreciate what so ever!

    So what if you were "called out" by liquorman's response? You posted on public forum, and not all will agree with you or understand you for that matter. So instead of indulging a civil debate you have chosen to use foul language.

    And let me remind you that you have opened a can of worms yourself and I quote :

    why are you , lipstick putting a moral spin on my thread as such in your demeanor of your response ? and that is all true and what surely began a very gratifying intelligent conversation with you , drtheolen.


    so you in your own words the rest of the replies were not intelligent enough... hmmm,  I would say you got a reply that you deserved.

    Zuga

  • Shame? Have you not seen how he has handled himself here? I'm flabbergasted that anyone would deem it a pity that timwilcob is "transmission out ---". Bitties? Intelligent conversation with one person? So everyone else that was kind enough to reply is unintelligent? I must be the most unintelligent of us all cause I don't get it!


    Good points Froggy.  Like Rosebud, I was a bit confused too.

    blue
  • Froggy,Zuga and blue,I couldn't agree with you more!!

  • LOL ,  i am thinking the problems are a little deeper than having anything to do with LCB.....perhaps the incoherent ramblings of a super genius

  • I.. have to say , just this that i apologize for my latest ramblings. Sincerely apologize. I do try to post topic that interest a larger group of us here at LCB. But all I have to say in my defense is that i seemingly have temporarily lost myself with the passing of my dear feline companion . Just last night i wept horribly to my loss of her.  And I do wish you all well in your lives, even a red line socialist sort of person that i am .. i do have a conscious and a heart ., guys gals please forgive my demeanor lately.

  • Im glad to see this little misunderstanding is part of the past, to be honest i somehow felt responsible at least in some part. I find it strange whenever i enter in any deeper debate or conversation lately, some kind of chaos appears sad

    Anyhow, im glad positive thinking people like lips exist, to brighten up our criticism filled minds and make us cheer up a bit.

  • drtheolen, you can in no way blame yourself that Tim's grief over his lost cat overtook him and sent him into a rambling spin.

    I too am glad to see this apparently resolved, as the discord does none of us any good. It is not our purpose here.

    Tim, I am sorry for your loss and appreciate your owning up and apologizing for your recent behavior. I don't think anyone will hold a grudge, we all have our moments.

    To all, live well, love deeply, and laugh long... now back to the business of having fun and sharing information.

    katt

  • Exactly katt, we ALL have our moments and with the help and understanding from our friends,we get thru it! smiley

    drtheolen,there is nothing you need to apologize for.LCB is a public forum and we are all free to voice our opinions!!


  • Im glad to see this little misunderstanding is part of the past, to be honest i somehow felt responsible at least in some part. I find it strange whenever i enter in any deeper debate or conversation lately, some kind of chaos appears sad

    Anyhow, im glad positive thinking people like lips exist, to brighten up our criticism filled minds and make us cheer up a bit.


    Thank you very much for your kind words. But please never feel like you can't join in a debate. You did nothing wrong. I have always been a strong advocate of debates and we use to have quite a few of them in the past. I always say its ok to agree to disagree. That's what makes for some good stimulating conversations. I think you personally got where i was going with my post in this thread and i appreciate your open mind. Your posts at LCB are always incredible and you give us food for thought.

    @tim............

    Maybe the written word at times is misconstrued because i sensed you were feeling down and out and i was trying to lift your spirits a bit by saying just hang in there, we all feel that way at times. And after your apology post i guess my sense was right.

    Sometimes we don't know whats happening on the other side of this white box as we write our comments. Loss, heartache and tough times can put us in a different frame of mind at times.

    But like i have always said, that's the real beauty of LCB because at the end of the day we are where we all need to be........one strong community.

    Lips

  • This is way off the subect here but something caught my attention.  Of course I am butting in where I shouldnt be.  I saw where Drtheolen typed he is in Serbia.  My point to my mini rambling here is I am amazed with their english typing.  I wouldnt think One bit english is their 1st language.  Speaking a 2nd language is far different than typing paragraphs in perfect english on a forum.  This is my only international forum I read or belong to thank god and while reading this thread it hit me that these 2 write better english than probably 80% do here in the USA.  Ok, my cameo appearance here is now over.

  • Man so true gunny, I find my rhetor and structure completely chaotic trying to express myself in English my native born language. Well American English to be more precise. And at that grass roots slang. ALthough I have always excelled academically .. most of what i learn is from personal aspiration to better the situation in every hue in my environment. I teach myself most things. Drtheolen and others abroad outside the original English speaking regions of the globe, thankfully bring a much more observing and at more times correct use of English.

  • And I also want to continue, me being so how ya say , spirited?..I cannot as you point out Lipstick , that the typed words tend to lose the context of communicative intent... express how emotionally disraught i was when it finally hit me i lost my cat of all things. I must have not been able to control my emotional screams and used the forum to extinguish the mind's pain. By doing so lashing out my voice about just one of the things that tend to pester at my balance and committment to centered excellence. heh.. Being robbed of my dang broadband!

  • [derail]

    Yes both drtheolen and myself are from Serbia. We are actually an old friends, our friendship goes way back to first day of elementary school.

    I would say learning the 2nd language, in this case English, is always steady and ongoing process. I personally learn something new every day and Im never satisfied with my own knowledge of english and always strive toward perfection.

    naturally my line of work allowed me to significantly improve my english skills, and sometimes days can pass that I dont say a word of serbian. And at times i even find it easier to say something in english rather than in my native tongue ( which is quite concerning when I come to think of it laugh_out_loud ).

    I still remember the days when i used to think about what Im gonna say or write, first in serbian, only later to word it in english. But practice, repetition, reproduction of wording and expressions and real time conversation really helped me get comfortable and fluent in english.

    With all this said, we do have english as a mandatory class in our elementary and high schools. And with ever present movies and music and world wide web it is really hard not to know at least some english expressions.

    P.S.

    in case anyone is wondering how I actually sound in person then just follow this link : Introducing LCB Video Newsletter (old link removed)

    cheers
    Zuga

    [/end of derail]

  • I tell Zuga allllllllll the time that his English astounds me. Of course he is modest and strives for perfection which i think he can't get much better than he is doing right now! I have said to Zuga several times that Drthe blows me away with his written word as well.

    And i agree wholeheartedly gunny they write better than some with the native tongue. And don't forget about Luckynn he is Serbian too and does one heck of a good job as well!

    Lips

  • Omg i can't leave out catface! This girls English is unreal in both the written word and when spoken! She does a lot of content writing for LCB and quite literally blows me away too.

  • I knew there were others but these 2 stuck out to me.  It would be interesting if under the persons screen name and before their pic or avatar it had the country they lived in.  A third person just hit me.  Recently there was a thread from a person in the Netherlands with pictures of their guinea pigs.  I am way too lazy to go look up that thread from the past.  I had to take 2 years of a second language in Junior high school.  It was a disaster.  Choices were French and Spanish.  I chose French and 40 plus years later its where I learned to love french toast and french fries.

  • what ever happened to whanee


  • what ever happened to whanee


    I know this is off topic but I miss Nan too!! sad

  • I knew there were others but these 2 stuck out to me.  It would be interesting if under the persons screen name and before their pic or avatar it had the country they lived in.  A third person just hit me.  Recently there was a thread from a person in the Netherlands with pictures of their guinea pigs.  I am way too lazy to go look up that thread from the past.  I had to take 2 years of a second language in Junior high school.  It was a disaster.  Choices were French and Spanish.  I chose French and 40 plus years later its where I learned to love french toast and french fries.


    That was me with our guinea pigs...............:)

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