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To: epicure who wrote (74420)	2/14/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 108807

That's an interesting take X. I've recommended on the SI "think tank" thread they open up the site and allow free access again. Although it would bring some yahoos into the fray, I also believe it would bring a more wild-wild west excitement back. After all, I wonder how many of us would have started posting if we had initially had to shell out 100.00 bucks? My assumption is very few. Not that it's not worth the price, it's more a case of not realizing the value on the initial visit or two. It amazes me to see on the net the launching of so many massive sites daily. It's probably as close as anyone has ever gotten to a purely free economy. A few years ago many economic management guru's predicted the demise of the middle man with the advent of the internet. The direction now is clearly opposite this trend. The internet's future is going to be about earning small penny click through's as opposed to being dominated by the Wall Marts of the world. Companies like linkshare.com, cj.com (Commision Junction), and Be Free, are going to be the internets next Yahoo/Amazon. As more and more people get hold of simple editor programs like FrontPage 2000 and realize how simple it is to create an internet presence. Pennies will equal dollars, and millions upon millions of new successful companies will be created in small corner offices the world over. Just some thoughts you touched off. Michael

To: epicure who wrote (74420)	2/16/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, if you make a personal attack on an SI Administrator, for the first offense it is a 14-day suspension, then 30 days, then 45 days. I suppose you COULD say it really sucks here in general and that it is a police state and that every bit of creativity and art and especially SOUL has been vaporized from the site by the new GoToNet regime WITHOUT that being considered a personal attack on an SI Administrator, however. But now that we have OFFENSES, MISDEMEANORS and, oh my goddess, FELONIES, it is all a bit hard to take. Is there anyone at all who hasn't absorbed this? siliconinvestor.com It was in my posts when I got back after the computer crash debacle, and it just made my heart sink. It is really debatable whether there is anything worth being here for. I feel like a very small cog in a corporate web of gestapo tactics, a little tiny product part or something, trying to live free. My personal opinion on web shopping is that it is convenient but very seductive, making it too easy to spend wads of money of things you don't really need. I think 3D experiences are actually better, where you are around other people you haven't ever seen before, smelling and touching and experiencing products. I think we are being shut off from the sensual pleasure of everyday life, and that this couldn't really be very good for us as social animals. The fact that women are the biggest consumers and that they are becoming sophisticated about the net is certainly good for the decline and hopeful death of online porn. I am very excited that I can look around a house I might want to buy in Spain or British Columbia or Ireland, and Amazon.com does a wonderful job because you can actually read reviews online and listen to sound snippets, and order out-of-print or hard to find books very conveniently. So they have made the experience more, rather than less, real. But I guess I am a bit of a Luddite in general on this issue.