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Wasn't your life much simpler before you were tied to your computer? Take a step back and consider it. You sit there inundated by whiz-bang and are forced to spend an awful lot of time, effort and money protecting this magic-box from miscreants far and wide. That's a pretty empty way to spend your time, is is not? Sure, it's your time, do what you feel. However, that computer thing is turning your skin all pasty-white. Have you been outside this season? Do you know your neighbors?
You're falling out of life being tied to an appliance that shows you pretty colors and "stupid Human tricks" and lets you stare at a radiation emitting monitor while you play your Fantasy Football. It's full of empty promises and you don't even know how to use it.
If you don't know how to use your computer, make it a point to learn within the next 3 weeks, or just ditch the damned thing. Give it to your niece, your grandson, child. Give it to your cousin, neighbor, or uncle Ed. The guy at the corner selling newspapers may need a new computer and how about the hot-dog vendor. Give it to your kid's school or your library.
Honest, why even have one and suffer all the heartache, trouble and numbed brain-cells if you cannot bother to understand how a computer works. And who says that you have to? Your time, your life, your way of doing the things that you want and need done. Is eye-candy so appealing? What happened to your garden? You're not some 8 year old in the playground anymore.
Computers are a pain in the "life" and you know it. Not for all of us, but certainly for most. Some of us know them pretty well. We grok programs and architecture. It's simple enough if you think like the (men and women) that created all this whiz-bang. But for most of us they are frustrating, expensive, soul-stealing and full of empty promises and far more worries than we should have.
There are plenty of places where you can donate your computer. Or you can give it, them, to any of the above mentioned places. You will find that there are even some of us that will drive over to your place and backup all your stuff to a disc. Then, if you ever need to access any of the data on it - just drive, walk, fly or swim to your nearest library and print it up.
You don't need an ISP. Who says that one of the bills you have to pay every month is to an ISP? Them? Please. Have you been paying attention to how much $$$$ you pay to heat your shoebox in the winter? Have you seen the price for a barrel of oil? It's shameful and artificially inflated but that doesn't mean anything to those running the show. Think that will get any better any time soon? Just because Verizon, et al, are moving their products and services to these 'oh, so neat' bundles of expense and service, doesn't mean that you have to buy it. Need a phone? Great, get a phone. Need a camera? Terrific, get one of those, too. Even digital, just get one of those fancy photo-printers that you can pop a memory card into to read and print your pictures. No computer necessary. Look at all the free happy-time you have now. Go ahead, you can do it, get back into the world.
Have you noticed your budget or your electricity bill following your servitude to your computer appliance? Do you buy all that software, steal it or run Linux? Why? Balance your checkbook the old fashioned way. It seems a lot of overhead to me to run a computer and all ancillary expenditures in time and money for it - just to balance your checkbook. You can still use a pencil, right?
Me? I'm too far gone, a geek to-the-bone. It's my hobby, besides a few others, and my occupation. I understand computers and can work them reasonably well, and can think of cool ways to take advantage of what computing appliances can offer. For me they make sense. But why you? Really? Why have one at all? Typewriters, telephones, DVD players and many other types of devices, appliances, toys can perform the duties of what you use a computer for anyway. Less expense, headaches and nosy corporate control over those anyway. Have you any idea what these computing corporations think of you anyway? You'd fume. But let them. Who cares? So long as you're a smart and savvy operator of these computer appliances you can always get the upper hand, and not suffer the whims of those corporations that run the industry. Or else, you can't, and you're just making the outlook worse for all of us. Don't feel badly, though, forget about it. Just give up that demanding, selfish, frustrating, and expensive appliance and get back to living your days in the serenity that you deserve. You owe it to yourself and the rest of us that can work these devices and stop all the malfeasance from propagating as it does. In the end, everybody wins.
When was the last time everybody won? -- machiner 14 (r)October 2007 O' eight-hundred
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