On Thursday, May 8th, 1997 - Bill Cheek wrote:
 
BC> I believe the truth of your statement to be far overshadowed by the 
BC> truth of mine.  Nothing personal, though.....more like a cosmic truth 
BC> versus a local truth.
     
I can see yers also... Every thin has its drawbacks tho... Wait till man 
can control the weather!
         
BC> So WHAT drawbacks of the Internet am I not seeing, and what 
BC> difference does it make if I don't see them?  Remember studying the 
       
Nor did most who started smoking... At the time at least. I be on the
I-net less than thee... You should see the adictiveness of it... I've
also been to an I-net guru and he's showed me the ability of a
persistant person + a little know how to basicly stalk any one you
wish... And get totaly away with it!
       
BC> Well.....communications and connectivity are one of three vital 
BC> ingredients, not only to basic survival, but also to a free society.
       
Yeah... But when ones wife has to leave you E-mail to get her point
across... (not meaning you) The divorce rate is up! Not because of
comunication but, the lack of it...
      
BC> As I recall......you are still mired in a herd of computers from the 
BC> dinosaur age....Radio Shack Color Computers, right? It would make 
BC> sense that you are against the development of the Internet....same as 
BC> the Amish are against the development of technoloogy and the 
BC> Christian Scientists are against the development of Medicine.
         
Yes I have have my COCO's... And as long as they serve my needs... I
woulden't call it a herd tho... Just a few. 
But to group that with bein' against the development of the I-net would
be hog wash! Besides at the April 26th CoCo Fest in Chicago I talked
with a software developer who is working on a Inet browser for the COCO.
It sounded impressive for these little machines... 19.2 baud rate
included...
I do have a 386 here and am building another. Because I'm into the
electronic side of things I like to see what makes them work. With the
COCO I can also work with the software to cuz I understand it. Maby once 
I dig into the MSDOS and Windoz and get an understanding of it I can do
the same there. But I just can't see pointing and clicking to do things. 
Sure it's easy... But do you realy know what yer doing??? I don't think
so. The software does it for you! Too damn easy... I'd rather walk on
solid ground and know the inside as well as the outside of my file
structure. Floating was never good enough for me... Any one can do that!
  Rocky
  kerryk1@juno.com
 
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