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  1. #31
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    I spend alot of time on the internet, to be honest, but I can live without if I am busy. If not for stupid "child labor laws" I'd be picking up double shifts at work and all. I do try and stay off, but I can't deny I'm on for at least 4+ hrs a day. Facebook is my main site, if I didn't have it I wouldn't talk to alot of people as much.

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    "Since we all seem to agree that we'd do more things such as go fishing, walk the dogs, draw, do photography, etc., why not do them then? We all rely on our computers; that's a given. But do we need to be on them as much and as often as we are? Why not give it a whirl and do all those things that later in life we may regret not having done? "

    I agree Mary. I actually got rid of cable tv because I spent way too much time watching it. Unfortunately, I replaced it with internet time!
    A few months ago I decided to declutter, get organized and keep the house in some semblance of neatness. I read Sink Reflections and bought a timer. It's made a HUGE difference! I set it for 15 minutes, check email, PT, HP but when the timer goes off, I get off the computer and do something else. Go for a walk, do some knitting, take out garbage. Anything not PC related. I love my timer!
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    Well Reggie i would survive, but i would miss it terribly especially coming to PT and my friends here,then i would go in to withdrawal , and i don't think i would be very easy to live with lol.
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    Is that before or after I (and about 12K other techs) spent a couple weeks helping the USPS reconfigure everything to run without a network?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Medusa View Post
    Since we all seem to agree that we'd do more things such as go fishing, walk the dogs, draw, do photography, etc., why not do them then? We all rely on our computers; that's a given. But do we need to be on them as much and as often as we are? Why not give it a whirl and do all those things that later in life we may regret not having done?
    Let's see ... don't go fishing but I walk the dog, draw, take photos, garden, read, Photoshop, watch tv/dvds, do all the boring housework stuff I need to and use the internet. I love it, would miss it terribly but am no slave to it.

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    I don't have internet at home. I get a lot done, do a lot of 'projects', read a lot and watch much too much HGTV & DIY.

    But I come to work to stay in touch with Pet Talk!

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    I haven't had internet for the last 12 weeks while I've been at the cabin. It's amazing how much I've accomplished. I have TONS of time for studying, I've done a lot of reading, spent time with Jack, walked a lot. I also spend more time cleaning the house and washing/waxing my car. This Sunday I move to my new apartment for the school year - and I'm going to try really hard to not go back to my old interneting-all-day habits.

    It would be hard to be without the internet completely, I still wake up earlier Monday through Wednesday so I can stop in at the library before class.

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    My DSL modem carped out on me over the last couple of days and I got a new one today. I am back in DSL bliss.
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    My Eve Corp would be mightily annoyed but if the internet went out no one else would be playing so there wouldnt be any competition lol...

    Honestly the internet is fun...and I browse around quite a bit but I go on sabbaticals for days at at a time and am fine. Now if it would have gone out a couple of years ago I might have died lol.

    I have a lot of games on my computer...I'd probibly play some command and conquer waiting for the internet to come back lol.

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    If the #$!!@ internet got totally and permanently destroyed I'd be the happiest person on the face of the earth! There's something terribly wrong when businesses and people can't do anything without these despicable computers. They have done infinitely more damage than good. We can no longer know that our personal information is confidential, any hacker jerk can steal our identity, clean out our bank accounts, and do who knows what with information they have no right to. People are always complaining about how poor our educational system is. There's a very easy solution, pull every single computer out of the schools and go back to teaching basics. All we're getting as a result of computers is a generation of non functional illiterates who can't think and have zero social skills. My son is a history major and attended a highly respected university. When it came to term papers, the professors told them any internet research would be an automatic F. Good for those profs!!! I trust nothing off a computer, if information is from the internet, I know it's wrong. This nonsense has gone entirely too far. I'm still devastated that all computers didn't blow up at Y2K like they were supposed to!
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    Quote Originally Posted by momcat View Post
    We can no longer know that our personal information is confidential, any hacker jerk can steal our identity, clean out our bank accounts, and do who knows what with information they have no right to.
    If you do research on that topic, you will find there is many, many ways of preventing those types of things.

    Technology is neither good nor evil. its how it is used that is good or evil. Governments have started using computers to track people online, track their movements, their information, even tap our connections. I prevent the majority of that by using encryption for most anything I do, but that can be broken.

    If you want to do something about it, join a Internet Freedom group. I'm a supporter of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, eff.org .


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    Cry.

    My internet has actually been down for three days. It sucked. I went to bed at 9:00 every night. Sounds nice, but the caveat is that I can only sleep about six hours a night, so I was awake at 3:00 am. Grrrr ....

    I am SO glad to be back!

    I justify spending every evening on the computer by the fact that I never watch TV, ever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by momcat View Post
    If the #$!!@ internet got totally and permanently destroyed I'd be the happiest person on the face of the earth! There's something terribly wrong when businesses and people can't do anything without these despicable computers. They have done infinitely more damage than good. We can no longer know that our personal information is confidential, any hacker jerk can steal our identity, clean out our bank accounts, and do who knows what with information they have no right to. People are always complaining about how poor our educational system is. There's a very easy solution, pull every single computer out of the schools and go back to teaching basics. All we're getting as a result of computers is a generation of non functional illiterates who can't think and have zero social skills. My son is a history major and attended a highly respected university. When it came to term papers, the professors told them any internet research would be an automatic F. Good for those profs!!! I trust nothing off a computer, if information is from the internet, I know it's wrong. This nonsense has gone entirely too far. I'm still devastated that all computers didn't blow up at Y2K like they were supposed to!
    I understand your concerns but what I don't understand is if you hate computers and the internet so much how come you are here and have over four thousand posts next to your name? Genuinely just curious.

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