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I have been on the internet for a long time. I started in the early nineties when a lot of people I knew didn't even know what it was.

But sitting here in a hotel room in the middle of Nebraska ( on my way back to Utah ) I was super bored so I decided to use the internet to identify two birds sitting outside on a power line out the window. I wanted to see how long it would take me. I had never seen anything like these birds and had no idea where to start but within 4 minutes I was able to identify them as Western Kingbirds. And I know little about birds too. Four minutes!!!

Only fifteen years ago nobody could have done this sort of thing. But another moral of this story is that one can get really bored in a hotel room literally in the middle of nowhere.
 
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you mean to say you don't have il2 installed on your laptop???

actually you will never be bored if you start to practise buddhist meditation, and you will learn more (of value) than the whole internet can teach... whisper



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" 'tis all a chequer-board of nights and days, where destiny with men for pieces plays; hither and thither, moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays" ..The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
 
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Badsight-
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the internet . mans greatest source of mis-information ever
 
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Badsight-
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Originally posted by fabianfred:
you mean to say you don't have il2 installed on your laptop???

actually you will never be bored if you start to practise buddhist meditation, and you will learn more (of value) than the whole internet can teach... whisper

preachy

others call it a load of circular BS that goes nowhere
 
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preachy

others call it a load of circular BS that goes nowhere


You appear to be under the false impression that your own flavour of religion is any more credible.

humour me, please.



Raaaid: once i read about making a wormhole with household items, extreamly dangerous
 
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you mean to say you don't have il2 installed on your laptop???
+1
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Originally posted by mortoma:
I have been on the internet for a long time. I started in the early nineties when a lot of people I knew didn't even know what it was.

But sitting here in a hotel room in the middle of Nebraska ( on my way back to Utah ) I was super bored so I decided to use the internet to identify two birds sitting outside on a power line out the window. I wanted to see how long it would take me. I had never seen anything like these birds and had no idea where to start but within 4 minutes I was able to identify them as Western Kingbirds. And I know little about birds too. Four minutes!!!

Only fifteen years ago nobody could have done this sort of thing. But another moral of this story is that one can get really bored in a hotel room literally in the middle of nowhere.




When the "grid" http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/03/42230 is up and running, you should be able to shave off 3 minutes and 59 seconds of your search time Razz
 
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quote:
Originally posted by mortoma:
I have been on the internet for a long time. I started in the early nineties when a lot of people I knew didn't even know what it was.

But sitting here in a hotel room in the middle of Nebraska ( on my way back to Utah ) I was super bored so I decided to use the internet to identify two birds sitting outside on a power line out the window. I wanted to see how long it would take me. I had never seen anything like these birds and had no idea where to start but within 4 minutes I was able to identify them as Western Kingbirds. And I know little about birds too. Four minutes!!!

Only fifteen years ago nobody could have done this sort of thing. But another moral of this story is that one can get really bored in a hotel room literally in the middle of nowhere.


I remember the day when it dawned on me that I had the biggest source of information in the world. Bigger than any library - sitting in the living room. I can look and with some effort find out about literally anything without ever needing to go to the library. It IS quite amazing.



However, there are times I have loved the net for helping me find something I really needed and other times when I would quite happily have burned the whole thing and left it for good. Like everything it can be a great source of good and a great source of evil.

For this reason I still have a normal library of good old fashioned BOOKS! And try to buy a new ref book every month. Always reliable.
 
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Originally posted by Megile:
You appear to be under the false impression that your own flavour of religion is any more credible.

humour me, please.


YAWNIES

last time i started a religous thread here was . . . . ?
 
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Originally posted by Badsight-:

preachy

others call it a load of circular BS that goes nowhere


You appear to be under the false impression that your own flavour of religion is any more credible.

humour me, please.




REPENT SINNER!!! Demonic
 
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internet...quantity over quality, good for snippets but when you need real hard info you still need books and journals.

altho saying that , the net has given millions of people a voice which can be heard the world over Smash
 
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quote:
Originally posted by Megile:
quote:
Originally posted by Badsight-:

preachy

others call it a load of circular BS that goes nowhere


You appear to be under the false impression that your own flavour of religion is any more credible.

humour me, please.




REPENT SINNER!!! Demonic


 
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Originally posted by mortoma:
I have been on the internet for a long time. I started in the early nineties when a lot of people I knew didn't even know what it was.

But sitting here in a hotel room in the middle of Nebraska ( on my way back to Utah ) I was super bored so I decided to use the internet to identify two birds sitting outside on a power line out the window. I wanted to see how long it would take me. I had never seen anything like these birds and had no idea where to start but within 4 minutes I was able to identify them as Western Kingbirds. And I know little about birds too. Four minutes!!!

Only fifteen years ago nobody could have done this sort of thing. But another moral of this story is that one can get really bored in a hotel room literally in the middle of nowhere.


Well, there's something else a bored, alone man in a hotel can do with the internet... Winky


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Originally posted by mortoma:
I have been on the internet for a long time. I started in the early nineties when a lot of people I knew didn't even know what it was.

But sitting here in a hotel room in the middle of Nebraska ( on my way back to Utah ) I was super bored so I decided to use the internet to identify two birds sitting outside on a power line out the window. I wanted to see how long it would take me. I had never seen anything like these birds and had no idea where to start but within 4 minutes I was able to identify them as Western Kingbirds. And I know little about birds too. Four minutes!!!

Only fifteen years ago nobody could have done this sort of thing. But another moral of this story is that one can get really bored in a hotel room literally in the middle of nowhere.

Personally, I would have looked up pron, but each his own.
 
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