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Hello Roy - 

CA>> For some reason those with 'storefronts' don't bother to
CA>> note that items are not in the stores and don't seem to
CA>> realize that people might 'shop' before driving to the
CA>> store by viewing the website. Seems an obvious mistake to
CA>> me but not to them. 

RJT> Another example of folks using the web who "just don't get
RJT> it"... :-) 

The ones who do 'get it' are another problem like the guy with
3000 registered domain names using misspellings of 'disney' and
other domains children might type in to redirect kids to porn
websites. He was making $1 million US per year before they
caught up with him. 

MM>> "As the wheel turns", milk, eggs, ice, _fresh_ fruit,
MM>> _fresh_ vegetables, as well as _fresh_ seafood, were all
MM>> delivered door-to-door when I was a kid. Most of those
MM>> local vendors became the millionaires who later opened our
MM>> first "Supermarkets". 

CA>> I remember the milk man and had an uncle who delivered
CA>> bread. 

RJT> We used to have all sorts of folks stopping by... And
RJT> people hawking fresh produce off hand-pushed carts in the
RJT> street. 

Some of those highly mobile marketers were also collecting
numbers for organized crime and selling drugs to supplement a
meager income. 

CA>> I'm anticipating decades more of frozen wages as the cost
CA>> of living increases to where many will have no automobiles
CA>> (which I also remember from my youth). ;-) 

RJT> Things will have to get awfully tough before people will
RJT> care for that much. We have *way* too much stuff that's
RJT> structured around the car, 

Things have already gotten that tough. It requires two people
working (husband/wife) to pay bills one person used to be able
to pay and both work more hours too. When the 'boomers' (me)
hit 65 years of age the FICA taxes will _have_ to be increased
and there will be less money remaining for bills. The standard
of living in the US is going in the dumper. Foreign investment
in US business has been dropping off by as much as 80% just
this past year and jobs are being shipped out to other
countries. Meanwhile we spend $1 billion per week for the
Iraqis. ;-) 

RJT> to the detriment of pedestrian traffic and such. I can
RJT> still remember a stop some time back where there was a
RJT> Wal-Mart on one side of this road and a shopping center on
RJT> the other -- it was not only not friendly to pedestrians
RJT> who'd want to walk across, but darn near actively hostile! 

RJT> Too many places don't have sidewalks, etc. and are
RJT> otherwise arranged so that "you can't get there from here"
RJT> as far as pedestrians are concerned. 

I know, same here. CompUSA is right across the street from
BestBuy near here and to get from one to the other on foot you
must walk a half a block to a streelight and cross fast or the
traffic will start up with you in the middle of the road. 

CA>> Hard to convince my children that there were people who
CA>> had never owned an automobile living in my neighborhood
CA>> when I was a child but there were. 

RJT> When I was a kid we didn't have a tv set. Didn't get one
RJT> until much later on, and I can actually remember going to
RJT> somebody's house to watch once or twice. And when we did
RJT> get one it was black-and-white. 

We had one of the first TVs on my street (B&W) and one of the
few telephones. Neighbors would get calls on our phone and I
had to go get them, they had no phones. 

RJT> Didn't get a color set until I was in my 20s. 

I was about that age when we got color TV. 

RJT> These days the kids take it for granted, and expect it to
RJT> be color, and to have one in their room. With cable or a
RJT> dish connected (which we _still_ don't have). 

TVs are amazingly inexpensive though. A used TV is next to
nothing. 

Cable is a much better picture but some of the programming
(most of the programming?) is questionable for children to be
watching.  I recorded programs the last decade my children
were with me and encouraged them to watch the tapes and ignore
the on TV garbage that was being broadcast then.  Now it is
even worse.

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